Friday, November 17, 2006

Cannelloni ripieni di ricotta e spinaci

...and this is an easy recipe that you might want to try during the weekend.

CANNELLONI FILLED WITH RICOTTA AND SPINACH
(for 2 people)
Ingredients for the filling: 10 cannelloni (pasta tubes), 250 g ricotta, fresh spinach (as much as you like), 3 Tbsp pinenuts, 1 garlic glove, extra-virgin olive oil, salt.
Ingredients for the sauce: 1 can tomato purée, 1/2 small onion, extra-virgin olive oil, fresh basil, salt, chili powder.

Prepare the tomato sauce by cutting onion and put it a pan with some extra-virgin olive oil, cook until soften. Add tomato purée, salt and chili powder and cook for at least 30 minutes. Add some fresh basil at the end.
Clean and wash the spinach, cook them in a pan with extra-virgin olive oil, garlic clove and salt until soften. Mix the spinach with ricotta and pine nuts, add salt and stir well. Take an oven tray, cover the bottom with some extra-virgin olive oil and tomato sauce. Fill cannelloni with the ricotta-spinach filling and put them in the tray, side by side. Cover cannelloni with the rest of the tomato sauce, some oil and grated Parmigiano.


9 comments:

Nabeela said...

Hi Orchidea, the cannellonis look great and its good that ypu gave a 2 person recipe...I'll make it someday :)

Angie said...

This looks good, ricotta plus spinach - perfect combination :)

sergiott said...

ciao orchidea: quel tocco piccante nei canelloni mi piace moltissimo.

ciao

Sophie said...

Beautiful and naturally delicious ! If you want to read me in english, I do have an automatic tranlater on the side bar. By the way, thanks for you e-mail.

Lis said...

Wow.. you have no idea how incredibly good that looks to me! I wish I had some right this instant! Beautiful pictures, Orchidea! :D

burekaboy — said...

wow, che bello. ho fatto la stessa cosa fa una settimana nel mio blog ma con conchiglioni! e un ricetta si semplice e buona.

your photographys beautiful! ;)

Orchidea said...

Nabeela, thanks. Let me know if you try...

Angie, thanks. I agree, ricotta and spinach is the perfect combination.

Sergiott, vero...? Mi piace un pizzico di piccante.

Sophie, thanks. I will definitely try your translater...

Lis, thanks a lot!

Burekaboy, sono andata a sbirciare il tuo blog e ho visto la tua ricetta... molto buona e invitante.
Ciao.

campo di fragole said...

Noooooo! non e' giusto, non si puo' ....a quest'oraaaaa. Vado al lavoro e non mangero' perlomeno fino alle 5 quando, tornata a casa, dovro' prepararmi qualcosa di veloce...Quanto mi farebbe piacere trovare nel forno questi cannelloni!

nini said...

mmmiam,..non trovo la ricetta in italiano,..o non c'è?!