Homemade Cannelloni

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Any homemade pasta recipe can be used to make cannelloni. Many ingredients can be added to the dough to change the color and/or flavor. Think: Spinach, beet juice, squid ink, butternut squash…

Pictures to come tomorrow…

Ingredients for Basic Recipe:
3 c. flour 4 eggs, fresh ground sea salt

Directions:
Dump the flour in a pile on marble slab. Make a large well in the four and crack the eggs into the center. Sprinkle with salt. Use a fork and break the yolks of the eggs, slowly stir the eggs, picking up a little amount of flour at a time until ingredients are combined and dough is formed. Knead dough about 30 times, adding more flour if necessary. Place dough in a glass bowl, cover, refrigerate and let rest for 30 minutes. Flour the opening of your pasta machine and place it on the widest setting. Cut dough into four pieces and roll through machine. I roll mine through each setting twice and then move the setting two sizes smaller. Sprinkle with flour as necessary. Cut pasta into rectangles, these will form your cannelloni tubes later. You can either lay pasta flat on a cooling rack to dry and use later, or you can parboil them, allow to cool and them fill them to bake.

What are your homemade pasta tips?

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Sausage, Pepper & Spinach Cannelloni

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cannelloni, dinner, food, foodie, pepper, postaday2011, recipe, ricotta, sausage, spinach

My final project is submitted and the online discussions are closed. Now I can finally spend time making things from scratch again! Hubster’s belly will be so happy!

Sausage, Pepper & Spinach Cannelloni

Ingredients:
1 batch of cannelloni, 1 lb. ground (turkey) sausage, 2 c. ricotta cheese, 1 c. chopped white onion, olive oil, 1 c. parmesan cheese, 1 egg, 1 Tbsp. crushed garlic, 2 c. fresh baby spinach, 1 red pepper, fresh cracked black pepper, fresh ground sea salt, tomato sauce (or crushed tomatoes or diced tomatoes)

Directions:
Parboil fresh cannelloni and then rub with olive oil. Oil a glass casserole dish. Preheat oven 350°F. Brown onion, garlic and sausage in frying pan. Once meat is cooked, set aside to cool. Cut peppers into long strips. Add peppers and spinach to pan until softened, set aside. Mix together ricotta, eggs, parmesan, salt, pepper and sausage mixture. In cannelloni, layer pepper strips and spinach. Spoon on ricotta mixture and gently roll cannelloni to create a tube. Place stuffed cannelloni in baking dish seam side down. Pour sauce or tomatoes over pasta and bake for 30 minutes.

Fresh cannelloni recipe to follow tomorrow…

Serve hot and enjoy!

What’s on your dinner table???