Cannelloni: pasta rolls with meat and mushrooms

Appetizing Italian pasta dish with bechamel sauce in the form of stuffed tubes sprinkled with parmesan cheese and baked in the oven. To prepare this dish, you can use ready-made Italian pasta - manicotti

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Cuisine: Mediterranean cuisine (Italian, Greek) 

Taste of meat spicy-spicy 

Cooking method: knead the dough + cut + fry + stew + bake 

Main household appliances: stove 

Basic kitchen utensils: board + knife, colander, bowl, frying pan, deep baking dish 

Main products: flour, eggs, meat, mushrooms, tomatoes 

Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes + 

Difficulty level: medium 

Type of dish: main course

 Ingredients 

For test: 

Durum wheat flour - 300 g 

Eggs - 3 pcs. 

Olive oil - 1 tsp 

Salt - ¼ tsp (pinch) 

Or manicotti - 16 pcs. 

For filling: 

Minced meat (beef) - 500 g 

Mushrooms (champignons) - 6-8 pcs. 

Onion - 1 pc. Garlic - 2-3 cloves 

Sweet pepper - 1 pc. 

Greens (parsley) - 50 / 100 g (2 tablespoons) 

Grated parmesan cheese - 100 g 

Olive oil - 2-3 tbsp. 

Salt - to taste 

Pepper - to taste 

Bechamel sauce - 250 ml 

Cooking Method 

1. Get ready the dough or manicotti: 

- Break eggs with olive oil and salt 

- Add the flour into a slide on the board, make a recess and pour the resulting mixture into it 

- Knead the dough and keep it for thirty minutes. 

- roll out evenly rested dough, cut into rectangles 10 x 5 cm 

- roll tubules with a diameter of 1-3 cm, transfer to a board sprinkled with flour, and let dry 

- boil cooked or bought manicotti until half cooked in a large amount of salted water, put it in a colander and season with 1 tbsp. oils 

2. Prepare the filling: 

- finely chop mushrooms, peppers, onions and garlic and fry in olive oil (1-2 tablespoons) 

- cool, mix with minced meat and chopped herbs 

- salt, pepper 

3. Get ready the cannelloni:

- fill the pasta tubes with stuffing

- put in a profound baking dish

- Shower with béchamel sauce and sprinkle with parmesan cheddar

- heat in the stove at a temperature of 200-220 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Serving Suggestions: Serve hot on a platter. You can sprinkle with herbs and offer ketchup or spicy tomato sauce .