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Ingredients
Cannelloni with Cheese Sauce
- Ingredients
- 200 grams Ricotta cheese
- 3 eggs
- salt
- freshly ground peppers
- 1 garlic clove
- 2 Tbsps Pine nuts
- 400 grams Spinach
- 16 cannellini beans
- 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
- 150 grams Whipped cream
- 200 grams Parmesan (freshly grated)
- 2 Tbsps butter (freezed)
Combine ricotta with 1 egg and season with salt and pepper. Crush peeled garlic and add to the mixture. Toast pine nuts in a dry pan until golden yellow and chop coarsely, add to ricotta mixture. Rinse and spin dry spinach, blanch in boiling salted water for a few minutes. Rinse in cold water and drain well. Squeeze well and chop coarsely. Add spinach to ricotta mixture. Place mixture into a piping bag with a wide tip. Fill mixture into cannelloni. Oil baking dish and arrange cannelloni into it. Whisk cream with remaining eggs and 100 grams of Parmesan (approximately 3 1/2 ounces), season with salt and pepper. Pour egg and parmesan cream over cannelloni. Sprinkle with remaining Parmesan cheese and dot with butter pieces. Bake in preheated oven at 200°C (approximately 400°F) for about 40-45 minutes. Serve.
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
Calorie | 660 cal. | (31 %) | ||
Protein | 33 g | (34 %) | ||
Fat | 50 g | (43 %) | ||
Carbohydrates | 20 g | (13 %) | ||
Sugar added | 0 g | (0 %) | ||
Roughage | 3.4 g | (11 %) |