Spinach And Chicken Cannelloni Food

CHICKEN & SPINACH CANNELLONI

Steps:

• In a large frying pan, add olive oil and about half of the crushed garlic. Cook for a minute before adding the peppers and onions. Cook on high heat for a few minutes until they start to brown. Then reduce heat to medium-low and continue to cook for about 10 more minutes. While the onions and peppers are cooking, add in a little of the tomato juice from the can. This will ensure they soften while they cook and not burn. Add tomatoes, herbs, salt and pepper. Continue to cook until the liquid in the tomatoes reduces by half. This will take around 10-12 minutes. Stir as it cooks. At this point taste your sauce and see if it is bitter at all. If so, add about a teaspoon of sugar. Stir well and leave to simmer for a few more minutes. Once you have finished this, add the mixture to the blender and blend in batches until you have a smooth sauce. Flavours can be adjusted once you have made your sauce with additional herbs, salt, pepper, sugar....
• Heat the reserved skillet and add a little olive oil and remaining garlic. Add in chicken and brown for just about 3 - 5 minutes. Add the spinach and stir until it has completed wilted. Remove from heat. Add prepared sauce to the chicken and spinach mixture.
• In a medium saucepan set over medium to high heat, melt butter until sizzling. Whisk in flour until you have a paste. Gradually start whisking in your milk. Continue doing this until you have added all the milk and you have a slightly thickened sauce. Reduce heat to medium low and add most of the cheese, both kinds, reserving a little for the top. Stir really well until all the cheese has melted into the sauce. Season with a little bit of salt and pepper and add the chopped parsley. Stir and remove from heat.
• Using a spoon, fill the cannelloni tubes with the chicken spinach filling. Repeat for all tubes. Place the filled tubes in a large deep sided baking dish. Use two pans if one isn't big enough. Evenly pour over the sauce. Top with remaining cheese.
• Bake in a preheated oven of 350 degrees for around 35 to 40 minutes. Remove from over and let stand for 10 minutes before serving.

SPINACH AND CHICKEN CANNELLONI

Steps:

• Grease a large shallow casserole dish.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
• Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium high heat.
• Add the garlic and chicken and cook, stirring occasionally for about l0 minutes or until the chicken is cooked.
• Stir in the spinach and cook for about 2 minutes or until the spinach is wilted.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the ricotta and parmesan cheese, nutmeg, salt and pepper, stir until well combined.
• Spoon the mixture into a resealable plastic bag or a piping bag without a nozzle.
• Snip a corner of the plastic bag and pipe the chicken mixture into each cannelloni shell.
• Pour ⅓ of the sauce into the casserole dish.
• Place the cannelloni in a single layer on the pasta sauce.
• Pour the remaining pasta sauce over the cannelloni and sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.
• Bake, uncovered in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until the pasta is tender and the cheese is golden brown.

CHICKEN AND SPINACH CANNELLONI

Steps:

• Parboil the pasta squares in a large pot of salted boiling water; remove with a slotted spoon and spread them on a clean tea towel. Cook the spinach in a pat of bubbling butter, then chop them thoroughly along with the boneless roast chicken.
• Place the mixture into a mixing bowl and add a small ladleful of bechamel, salt, pepper, nutmeg, 2/3 cup of grated Parmigiano and mix well. Spread onto the parboiled pasta squares and roll them up to form the cannelloni.
• Place them in a baking dish on top of a layer of bechamel, then top with the remaining bechamel, grated cheese and pats of butter. Top each with a tablespoon of the passata and bake for about 20 minutes at 425°F. Serve hot.

CHICKEN,PUMPKIN AND SPINACH CANNELLONI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200°C Put pumpkin, nutmeg, pancetta, chicken mince, spinach, garlic and ricotta in a bowl and mix well to combine.
• Cut the lasagna sheets into half.
• Place 3 tablespoons of filling at one end of the lasagna square.
• Roll up the lasagna square to enclose the filling.
• In a heavy based frypan add olive oil.
• Add garlic and onion and cook on medium heat until soft and golden.
• Add tomato passata and white wine and bring to the boil.
• Cook on high heat for 5 minutes or until sauce thickens.
• Remove from heat and add basil and season to taste.
• Spoon a generous serve of the tomato sauce over the base of a 35cm x 25cm oven proof dish.
• Arrange the cannelloni tubes over the top of the sauce in a single layer.
• Spoon the remaining sauce over the cannelloni.
• Sprinkle combined cheeses over cannelloni and bake for 25 minutes or until pasta is soft and cheese is golden.
• Serve cannelloni with a green salad tossed with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, crushed garlic and Dijon mustard dressing.

CHICKEN SPINACH CANNELLONI PIE

Steps:

• Make the tomato sauce: in a 4 quart saucepan, heat the oil; saute onion for 3 minutes.
• Add in tomatoes, salt, pepper, sugar, and basil; simmer the sauce, uncovered, for 30 minutes.
• Stir in parsley and cook for an additional 10 minutes; taste for seasoning, and add more salt and pepper, if needed.
• The sauce may be refrigerated for 2 days, or frozen for 2 months.
• Make the Parmesan Garlic Sauce: in a 3 quart saucepan, melt the butter, add the garlic, and saute for 1 minute to soften the garlic.
• Add in the flour and whisk until smooth; allow the flour to bubble, then add the milk slowly, whisking until the sauce is smooth and thick.
• Add in the salt, Tabasco, nutmeg, and cheese; whisk until the cheese is melted; taste and adjust seasonings, if needed.
• Refrigerate the sauce until ready to finish the pie.
• Make the Pie: in a big bowl, combine the spinach, chicken, and parsley.
• In another bowl, beat together the eggs, ricotta, ½ cup Parmesan, salt, and pepper.
• Add the chicken/spinach to the bowl; stir to combine; refrigerate for up to 8 hours before assembling the cannelloni.
• Preheat oven to 350°; spray a 13 x 9 inch ovenproof baking dish with cooking spray.
• Spoon ½ cup tomato sauce into the bottom of the baking dish; cover the sauce with lasagna noodle/s.
• Spread half of the cannelloni filling over the noodles.
• Cover with another layer of noodles; spread half of the Parmesan garlic sauce over the noodles, and stripe the white sauce with ½ cup of the tomato sauce.
• Cover with the remaining cannelloni filling; top with the remaining lasagna noodles.
• Cover with the remaining Parmesan sauce, and top with the remaining tomato sauce.
• Sprinkle with the remaining Parmesan cheese, and bake the pie for 45 minutes, until the cheese is golden and the pie is bubbling.
• Let the pie rest for 10 minutes before serving.

CHICKEN CANNELLONI (WITH OR WITHOUT SPINACH)

Steps:

• In a large skillet, simmer the chicken breasts, onion, broth, wine, and thyme, until chicken is done.
• Remove the chicken breasts to a plate and allow them to cool slightly.
• While the chicken breasts are cooling, strain the chicken broth to remove the onions and thyme.
• Reserve the broth into a large saucepan.
• Put the onions and thyme into your food processor.
• Chop or tear the chicken into big chunks, and put into food processor with the onions and thyme.
• Pulse the chicken in the food processor until finely chopped (you may need to divide the chicken into 2 batches).
• (I've also used my old, heavy meat grinder for this).
• Prepare spinach, if using. Wash well, chop, and lightly sauté in a saucepan with 2 tbs olive oil until done to your preference. I personally don't like "mushy" spinach. You may also substitute frozen chopped spinach, but be sure to squeeze it out really well.
• In a large bowl, mix the chicken/onion mixture with the ricotta and cottage cheese, spinach, 1/2 c parmesan, nutmeg, and white pepper.
• Mix thoroughly; set aside.
• In a large saucepan, melt butter.
• Whisk in flour, stirring constantly so it doesn't burn.
• Whisk in the reserved chicken broth, stirring constantly.
• Add the wine, and then the milk, stirring constantly, until sauce is velvety-smooth.
• Simmer, stirring frequently, about 20 minutes, while you start to assemble the canneloni.
• Assemble the canneloni: Lay 4-5 egg roll wraps out on the counter.
• Place approx 1/2 to 1 cup of chicken/cheese filling on center of wrap, and roll up, setting aside.
• Repeat until you're done.
• When sauce is done simmering, pour approx 1 cup sauce on the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish.
• Tilt, to make sure it's spread evenly.
• Arrange canneloni in dish, and top with remaining sauce.
• Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup parmesan.
• Cover with foil, and bake at 350 for about 30 minutes.
• During last 10 minutes, take the foil off so that the parmesan browns.
• Allow to sit for about 10 minutes before serving.