It is prepared simply, it looks spectacular, it turns out delicious. Cannelloni stuffed with minced meat is just such a dish. This type of Italian pasta is easy to find in the supermarket. And then it remains only to fill them with delicious filling and bake with aromatic sauce.
General principles for the preparation of cannelloni with minced meat
To distinguish these pasta from others is not difficult. These are quite large and long tubes, their diameter is two to three centimeters, and their length is ten centimeters. Very convenient size for stuffing. This is how cannelloni is made. They are filled with minced meat (you can take beef, pork, turkey or chicken), which is also added in different variations:
Cheese
Greens, often spinach;
Mushrooms
· Tomatoes.
The stuffed tubes are then put into a mold and baked in a sauce under a cheese crust. Classic sauces are bechamel or tomato. To bake cannelloni, the sauce must necessarily cover the edges of the pasta.
Oven cannelloni with minced bechamel sauce
The traditional way to cook cannelloni. A few tomatoes are added to the minced meat, and a dish is baked in a sauce based on milk, flour and butter.
Ingredients
250 grams of cannelloni paste;
150 grams of cheese;
half a kilogram of minced meat;
three tomatoes;
two to three onions;
three cloves of garlic;
salt;
ground black pepper;
liter of milk;
50 grams of butter;
three tablespoons of flour.
Cooking method
Stuffing must be fried in vegetable oil, and then cover and bring to readiness.
Grind and fry the onions and onion separately from the minced meat. Dip the tomatoes for half a minute in boiling water, remove the skin from them, cut into a small cube.
We combine the ingredients: onions, garlic, minced meat, tomatoes. Sprinkle with pepper, salt. Fry all together for several minutes. Leave to cool.
Getting to the sauce. To get bechamel, first melt the butter in a pan or saucepan. Add flour to it, fry for a couple of minutes, until a light golden color is obtained. Do not stop stirring. Then pour a little milk, constantly interfere so that no lumps form. Season with pepper and salt. Now you need to cook until thickened, the sauce should become like sour cream.
We stuff pasta with meat filling. Pour half the sauce onto the bottom of the baking dish. Put cannelloni in it. Pour the sauce.
In the oven at a temperature of 180, cook the dish for half an hour. Then we take it out, generously sprinkle with grated cheese and hold it in the oven for another quarter hour until tender.
Oven minced cannelloni with tomato sauce in the oven
The sauce can be made from tomato paste or canned tomatoes. But from fresh tomatoes with basil it turns out more aromatic and tastier.
Ingredients
A pound of a mixture of pork and ground beef;
onion head;
8 pieces of cannelloni;
egg;
two cloves of garlic;
0.5 teaspoon of salt and ground black pepper;
fresh parsley;
150 grams of parmesan.
For the sauce:
Two large tomatoes;
bulb;
tomato paste - four tablespoons;
a teaspoon of basil (dried);
olive oil;
salt, pepper, a teaspoon of sugar.
Cooking method
Slices of garlic finely chopped, fry until golden in olive oil. Just finely chop the onion, put in the pan and let it lightly brown. Spread the stuffing there. All together, fry for about seven minutes. Let it cool now. Then we transfer the minced meat to a deep bowl. Salt. Season with pepper and add finely chopped parsley. Break the egg. We combine it with minced meat.
Making the sauce. Peel the tomatoes. We remove the seeds. Grind with a blender into a homogeneous mass.
For the sauce, it is also necessary to fry finely chopped onion in olive oil. We spread chopped tomatoes and tomato paste to it. We mix. Bring to a boil. Now it's time to season: put salt, sugar, basil, pepper. Let’s sweat a few more minutes.
We spread the filling on the pasta tubes. Pour tomato sauce into the form - a little, you just need to cover the bottom. On top we place stuffed cannelloni. Pour all the remaining sauce, it should completely cover the pasta. Top - a layer of grated parmesan. We cover the form with a sheet of foil. Oven - at 230 degrees. Cooking for 45 minutes.
About ten minutes before the end of cooking, remove the foil. So cheese can be well browned.
Cannelloni stuffed with minced meat and spinach
Stuffing is suitable beef, pork, or a mixture thereof. Taste of pasta will be added by baking pasta under two types of cheese - these will be mozzarella and parmesan. The latter, by the way, can, if desired, be replaced by another hard variety.
Ingredients
15-16 pieces of cannelloni;
150 grams of mozzarella;
three onions;
450 grams of minced meat;
60 grams of parmesan;
200 grams of spinach (frozen);
salt and ground pepper;
1 liter of milk;
nutmeg pinch;
60 grams of butter;
flour - three tablespoons with a slide.
Cooking method
Prepare bechamel sauce. First, bring the milk to a boil. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a pan. Add the flour. Mix and fry for a couple of minutes. Add milk a little. Constantly mix. Salt, pepper. Cook to make the sauce a little thickened. After turning off the fire, add the nutmeg. Cover the sauce with a lid.
Now filling for cannelloni. Fry finely chopped onions. Add the minced meat to it. Fry for a few minutes. We take out the frozen spinach from the packaging. Pour boiling water over. Cut into pieces, put to the minced meat. Fry the filling in a low flame for another seven minutes. Cool down.
Cover the bottom of the mold with the sauce. We start the pasta with minced meat with spinach. Put in the form, on top - the whole remaining sauce.
Take the mozzarella from the brine. We divide the balls into small pieces with our hands, lay them on top of the pasta filled with the sauce.
At 180 degrees, bake for 25 minutes. Then we get it. Sprinkle with grated parmesan. And back into the oven for 10-15 minutes for browning.
Cannelloni with minced turkey
Turkey meat produces very tender mincemeat, dishes with it are juicy and tasty. Pour cannelloni again with bechamel sauce.
Ingredients
700 grams of ground turkey meat;
a pound of tomatoes;
12 cannelloni;
bulb;
half a teaspoon of sea salt and black pepper;
olive oil;
40 grams of butter;
4 cloves of garlic;
30 grams of flour;
100 grams of cheese;
400 ml of milk.
Cooking method
We prepare bechamel sauce from milk, flour, butter, salt and pepper, as described in the recipes above.
Minced turkey fried. Add finely chopped garlic and onions. Then we put there the tomatoes cut into a small dice. Fry for a few minutes. Cool down.
We fill the tubes. Pour a little sauce on the bottom of the mold, then put the pasta. Cover them with sauce. At 180 degrees, bake for 20 minutes. We get it, sprinkle with cheese, brown for another 20 minutes.
Cannelloni stuffed with minced chicken and mushrooms
Another option with tender minced poultry meat with the addition of fragrant mushrooms. The recipe uses frozen white, but you can take any others.
Ingredients
A pound of chicken meat (fillet);
two onions;
300 grams of frozen porcini mushrooms;
100-150 grams of grated cheese;
250 grams of cannelloni paste;
pepper, salt;
liter of milk;
a quarter packet of butter;
60 grams of flour.
Cooking method
From flour, butter, milk with salt and ground pepper, we prepare bechamel (see recipes above).
We take the mushrooms out of the freezer in advance so that they can defrost. Cut them into small pieces.
Grind the chicken fillet in a meat grinder. Chop the onion finely. Fry it first. Then add the mushrooms, fry for about ten minutes. Spread the minced meat and cook another twenty minutes. We wait until it cools down.
We start the pasta. We spread it in a form, pour in bechamel sauce, and in the oven for half an hour, 180 degrees. We get it, put the cheese on top and bake for another quarter of an hour.
Cannelloni with minced meat, cream cheese and carrots
This recipe uses sour cream based on cannelloni, which is not quite usual for cannelloni. And pasta is baked under a "fur coat" of carrots, onions and cheese.
Ingredients
200 grams of minced beef;
onion head;
one carrot;
two eggs;
9 pieces of cannelloni;
9 square slices of cream cheese;
100 grams of sour cream;
80 grams of hard cheese;
salt and pepper;
200 ml of water;
one tablespoon of corn starch.
Cooking method
Stuffing minced meat, season with pepper and salt. Leave to cool.
Three carrots through a grater. Cut the onion into thin rings.
We start filling cannelloni. We turn the slices of cheese into tubes and insert them into the pasta so that the cheese is in the middle. On the sides, we fill with minced meat. The cannelloni stuffed in this way are put into shape.
Making the sauce. We combine sour cream, water, eggs, corn starch and salt in a blender bowl. Whisk.
On the pasta tubes and between them we put onion rings. Pour the sauce. Sprinkle with grated carrots and cheese.
Until ready in the oven, the dish will spend 20-25 minutes (temperature - 200)
Cannelloni with minced meat - secrets and tricks
· Raw tubes are easier to fill, they are obtained more accurately. But in some recipes they are recommended to first boil in salted water for 4-5 minutes. On a pack of cannelloni, you can find information from the manufacturer, which indicates whether they require preliminary boiling.
· Before filling the tubes with minced meat, let it cool.
· Do not fill the pasta too tightly - they may break up during cooking.
· Cannelloni stuffed with minced meat can be frozen for future use. Then you just need to defrost the tubes and cook.
