Pasta For Cannelloni Food

PASTA FOR CANNELLONI

Steps:

• Combine flour and 1 tablespoon salt on a counter, making a well in the middle. Break eggs into well, and beat them with a fork, gradually incorporating a little flour. When mixture becomes too hard to stir with fork, use your hands. When all the flour has been mixed in, knead dough, pushing it against counter, and folding it repeatedly until it is quite stiff and not at all sticky. Sprinkle with a little reserved flour. Clean your hands. Cover dough with plastic wrap or a cloth, and let it rest for about a half-hour. You can refrigerate dough, wrapped in plastic, for up to 24 hours. Meanwhile, make fillings for cannelloni (see recipe).
• When ready to proceed, sprinkle counter with flour. Cut off about a third of dough. Wrap the rest in plastic or cloth while you work. Roll dough lightly in flour, using your hands to flatten it into a rectangle about the width of your pasta machine. Set machine to its thickest setting, and crank dough through. If it sticks, dust with more flour. Repeat. Set machine to its next thinnest setting, and push dough through, adding flour again if pasta sticks. Repeat.
• Continue to work down the settings on machine. If dough tears badly, bunch it together, and start again. Add flour as you need, but only in small amounts. Pass dough through machine's thinnest setting. (If pasta tears, stop at the second thinnest setting.) Flour pasta lightly, then cover, and set aside. Repeat with remaining dough.
• Set a large pot of water to a boil, and salt it. Cut dough into 8 rectangles about 6 by 8 inches each. (You may have leftover dough.) Boil these sheets a couple at a time for about 2 minutes, or until tender. Reserve 1 cup of cooking liquid for cannelloni recipe. Remove sheets with a slotted spoon. Drop them into a bowl of ice water. Remove from ice water and drain. Spread on a baking sheet. Drizzle with oil to prevent sticking.

ITALIAN BAKED CANNELLONI

Steps:

• In a large skillet over medium heat, warm oil and saute ground beef with the onion, sage and rosemary; cook until meat is evenly browned and crumbly. Drain fat. Add salt and 1/2 cup white wine; cook until wine is evaporated. Set mixture aside.
• To make the Bechamel sauce: Melt 4 tablespoons butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add flour and stir until well incorporated. Stir in milk and bring to a slow boil until mixture thickens. Remove sauce from the heat. In a steady stream, pour the bechamel in to the beaten egg yolks, whisking constantly. Stir the sauce into the meat mixture. Stir in the cubed mozzarella.
• In a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, melt 2 tablespoons butter and saute onion until soft and translucent. Add 1/2 cup white wine and let it cook down to evaporate; add stewed tomatoes and salt. Mix well; simmer for 15 minutes.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta, a few at a time, and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; using a slotted spoon, remove immediately to a pot filled with cold water. Lift pasta out with slotted spoon and arrange on a flat surface.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Spoon a line of filling into each shell, starting from one end and using your finger to push the filling inside of each shell. Place cannelloni in prepared baking dish and cover with tomato sauce mixture.
• Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes or until heated through; when finished baking, allow to stand for 5 minutes and serve.