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Spinach and Cottage Cheese Canneloni
Tarla Dalal
06 December, 2024
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Preparation Time
30 Mins
Cooking Time
30 Mins
Total Time
60 Mins
Makes
6 null
Ingredients
Main Recipe
For the cannelloni
sundried tomatoes and basil pesto
1 tsp salt and 1 tablespoon
For the spinach stuffing
3 cups chopped spinach (palak)
1 cup crumbled paneer (cottage cheese)
1/2 tsp chopped green chillies
a pinch of nutmeg (jaiphal) powder
3 tbsp fresh cream
salt to taste
For the white sauce
3 tbsp plain flour (maida)
3 tbsp butter
3 cups milk
salt and
Other ingredients
2 tbsp grated processed cheese
butter or
Method
- Prepare the pasta dough as mentioned in the recipe.
- Divide the pasta dough into 6 portions and roll out each portion as thinly as possible.
- Cut each portion of the rolled out dough into a 100 mm. x 150 mm. (4" x 6") rectangle, to make 6 cannelloni sheets.
- Boil plenty of water in a broad pan and add 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of oil.
- Drop the prepared pasta one sheet at a time into the boiling water and cook for 2 minutes.
- Drain and transfer into a bowl of cold water. Drain again and keep aside.
- Blanch the spinach in boiling water. Refresh in ice-cold water and drain out the water. Keep aside.
- Chop finely and mix with the cottage cheese, green chillies, nutmeg powder, cream and salt. Keep aside.
- Heat the butter, add the flour and sauté for 1 minute.
- Slowly pour in the milk, whisking it continuously so that no lumps form. Bring to a boil.
- Add salt and pepper and mix well. Remove from the fire.
- Fill each cannelloni sheet with 1 tablespoon of the spinach stuffing and roll up.
- Arrange on a greased baking dish, pour the white sauce over the prepared cannelloni and sprinkle grated cheese on top.
- Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200 (400) for 15 minutes.
- Serve hot.
Spinach and Cottage Cheese Canneloni recipe with step by step photos
Anya2012
March 13, 2025, midnight
Spinach and cottage cheese stuffed in cannelloni and topped with white sauce and baked to perfection. The fun was making the cannelloni with fresh pasta dough and when baked, the cannelloni cut easily in clean lines.
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