Cannelloni and Stuffed Mushrooms

Delicious Stuffed Cannelloni and Stuffed Mushrooms (good stuff)

As our Frist delicious meal Idea we decided to start with something that we haven’t eaten in years, Cannelloni!

This tantalising dish is very yummy and easy to make, (and is a lot of fun too…)

As with most of our recipes, we wandered around online and got the basic gist of what the food is, then just made up our own recipe for it:

All you will need is the following:

-    -      12 tubes of Cannelloni Pasta,              -      2 Onions

-    -      1 red pepper & 1 green pepper,         -       2 tomatoes & 2 tin of chopped tomatoes
-    -      Some tomato Purée                            -       A Carrot

-    -      A tin of Kidney beans, drained           -       About a cup of Soy mince (doesn’t really matter, can use lentils)

-    -      Garlic, about 5 things of it, + to taste  -      Mushrooms, (to taste) (as Hope loves them more than me)

-    -      A bag of Spinach (mmmm, spinach)     -      Some herbs & spices, Oregano, Basil, Salt & Pepper etc.

   1.     Simply fry the first onion in some Olive oil, then add the peppers (diced) and Mushrooms, and fry for a bit, (oh, and pre-heat oven to 180˚C (or 453.15Kelvin, (or 1/28,000 times the Sun's Coronal temp) ) >.< )

   2.  Add in the crushed Garlic, the soy mince (probably from frozen, the Tesco brand is yummy & Vegan), Kidney beans, diced tomatoes, tin of chopped tomatoes & a generous amount of the purée.

   3.      Add in the Spinach with all the mixed herbs & Spices, and then cook till soft.

   4.      While waiting for it to cool a bit, make the sauce:

a.      Chop the other onion, a bit more garlic and grate the carrot.

b.      Blend up one of the tins of tomatoes.

c.       Fry the onion a bit, then add the other ingredients (maybe with a cube of stock)

d.      Cook for a bit and there’s your yummy sauce 

   5.      Now that your food has cooled slightly, get the cannelloni pasta and stuff them as packed up as you can! (Trust me, Use your hands, it’s really the best way to do it. It’s messy but efficient) Place as many as you can in a dish, and pour the sauce all over it.

   6.      Put in the Oven for 30minutes (or until it looks done)

We had a spot of red wine & Stuffed mushrooms with it and it went down a treat.
You can pretty much use any ingredients you want to make your own Cannelloni, (the most common one being Spinach & Ricotta) but I think this worked out well.

I hope you Enjoy!

-Conor

(Hope adored the mushrooms, so she ate mine..)

(ps, Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe: fry an onion with some red & green pepper, add a chopped tomato. Add a good bit of Garlic and some Spinach. Add some (previously cooked) rice and fry with herbs and spices to taste all together. Stuff some Portobello mushrooms (as photo’d) and stick in oven)