Ricotta Cannelloni

Ricotta & Spinach Cannelloni

(family recipe)

Ingredients:

1 onion

½ red pepper

½ orange pepper

1 shredded (gratted) carrot

1 good handful of spinach

(all the veggies finely diced)

2 cloves of garlic, minced

1 container of ricotta

1 egg

Italian, oregano, fresh basil leaves, salt and pepper,

Nutmeg (a little bit)

1 box of Catelli express cannelloni

700ml jar of tomato sauce, any flavour

1 cup of water

Directions:

Sweat the onion in a frying pan

Add the garlic , carrot and peppers to the onion

Add and Wilt the spinach in the same frying pan

Steam and cover for 5 minutes

Once veggies are tender, let cool 5 minutes

Add the oregano, Italian, salt and pepper etc seasonings

In a bowl, add the ricotta, basil leaves(chopped), egg, nutmeg, and salt and pepper

Now that they’re cooled, mix veggies in with ricotta

Mix tomato sauce with 1 cup of water

In a 13 by 9 inch pan,  put about half of sauce mixture in the bottom

Grab a Ziploc bag, and cut off a corner

Put the ricotta mixture into the baggy and stuff each cannelloni

Lay cannelloni in sauce

Cover cannelloni with remainder of sauce

Cover dish with foil and bake at 350F for 45 minutes or until tender