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Spinach is a dark, leafy green vegetable that is packed with vitamins and other nutrients. A superfood, spinach has a range of health benefits, including lowering the risk of cancer and reducing. Overview Information Spinach is a vegetable.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have spinach & ricotta cannelloni using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Spinach & Ricotta Cannelloni:

1. Prepare 16 canelloni tubes
2. Prepare 3 cups fresh spinach leaves
3. Take 400 g ricotta cheese
4. Get 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, freshly grated
5. Take 200 g mozzarella cheese, sliced
6. Take 500 ml fresh cream
7. Get 800 g canned peeled tomatoes
8. Prepare 2 tablespoons fresh basil leaves, chopped
9. Take 2 1/2 tablespoons oregano, fresh and chopped
10. Make ready 1/4 nutmeg, grated
11. Prepare 2 tablespoons butter
12. Take olive oil
13. Take 2 cloves garlic, peeled & finely sliced
14. Take 1 teaspoon sugar
15. Take salt
16. Make ready black pepper freshly ground

It is of the order Caryophyllales, family Amaranthaceae, subfamily Chenopodioideae. Its leaves are a common edible vegetable consumed either fresh, or after storage using preservation techniques by canning, freezing, or dehydration. It may be eaten cooked or raw, and the taste differs considerably. Spinach is notoriously nutritious and delicious too, so we've gathered our most-popular spinach recipes to round out your repertoire.

Steps to make Spinach & Ricotta Cannelloni:

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas 4.
2. Put a large saucepan on high heat and add the butter, a drizzle of olive oil, one of the sliced garlic cloves, the marjoram/oregano and the grated nutmeg.
3. When the garlic is soft, add the spinach and keep turning it over. After 5 minutes, empty the pan into a large bowl and leave to cool.
4. Place the pan back on the heat, add a little olive oil, the other sliced garlic clove and the tomatoes including the sauce from their cans.
5. Bring to the boil then turn the heat down. Add a pinch of salt and pepper and the sugar. Simmer for about 15 minutes, until you get a loose tomato sauce consistency. Take the pan off the heat and add the basil leaves.
6. By now the spinach should be cool. Squeeze any excess liquid out of it and keep that liquid aside in a bowl.
7. Finely chop the spinach and add to the liquid. Add the ricotta and a handful of Parmesan. Mix well.
8. Fill the cannelloni with this mixture using a piping bag. If you do not have one, fill the corner of a sandwich bag with the mixture, then twist the bag up and cut the corner off. Gently squeeze the filling into the cannelloni tubes so each one is filled right up.
9. Find an ovenproof dish that will fit the cannelloni in one layer. Pour the tomato sauce in it and lay the cannelloni on top.
10. Make a white sauce by mixing together the fresh cream, 2 handfuls of Parmesan and a little salt and pepper.
11. Spoon the white sauce over the cannelloni. Drizzle with olive oil, add the mozzarella pieces and sprinkle with the remaining Parmesan.
12. Bake for about 30 minutes until golden.

Spinach belongs to the chenopodiaceae family (also known as goosefoot), a family of nutritional powerhouses including beets, chard and quinoa. It shares a similar taste profile with these two other vegetables; the bitterness of beet greens and the slightly salty flavour of chard. The various health benefits of spinach are due to the presence of minerals, vitamins, pigments, and phytonutrients, including potassium, zinc, magnesium, iron, and calcium. Spinach is an excellent source of many vitamins and minerals, including ():Vitamin A. Spinach is high in carotenoids, which your body can turn into vitamin A.

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