Friday, 22 May 2015

Pork, spinach and ricotta cannelloni

This dish is great as it uses 500g of lean pork mince and will produce up to 6 helpings.  It can also be reheated in a microwave or frozen for later use.




Ingredients:
500g of lean pork mince (aim for 5% Fat)
1 box of cannelloni tubes
200g of frozen chopped spinach
100g of ricotta cheese (this has 7 syns)
2 cartons of passata
2 tablespoons of dried basil
2 tablespoons of sweetener
Salt and pepper.
Parmesan cheese for garnish
Method
Defrost the spinach and mix in a large bowl with the pork mince and ricotta, season the mixture with salt and pepper.  Now comes the messy bit......stuff the canneloni tubes with the mixture and place them in a large, shallow oven dish.  You may need 2 dishes as the mixture should stuff about 20 tubes.  Try and get the pack the tubes quite close together.
Pour over the passata until it just covers the tubes then sprinkle on the dried basil, sweetener and season with salt and pepper.

Cook in the oven for about 50 minutes at 190C. If in doubt check one of the centre tubes to see if it is cooked.

Serve with a green salad and garnish with grated parmesan.  Each serving will be one and a half syns plus any salad dressing that you use.

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