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This Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti is a favorite family recipe. Watch the video showing you how to make manicotti Manicotti is a pasta noodle shaped like a tube. Usually it's boiled until al dente, then cooled, filled. HINT: to stuff the shells easily, spoon the filling into a plastic storage bag, cut of a little bit of one corner, and pipe it into the tube. will save you alot of time.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have spinach and cheese stuffed manicotti using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti:
- Prepare 10 oz Frozen Spinach (thawed completely and squeezed dry)
- Prepare 8 oz Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
- Take 15 oz Ricotta (or you could use cottage cheese instead)
- Prepare 4 oz Cream Cheese
- Take 1/2 cup Shredded Romano or Parmesan Cheese
- Get 2 large Eggs
- Get 1/2 tsp Salt
- Get 1/2 tsp Pepper
- Take 1 box (12-14 Shells) Manicotti Noodles (DO NOT COOK NOODLES)
- Get 4 cup Marinara Sauce
- Take 1/2 cup Shredded Romano or Parmesan Cheese (for topping)
- Make ready OPTIONAL:
- Get 1 lb Ground Beef
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Steps to make Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti:
- Preheat oven to 350°
- If adding ground beef, brown and drain fat.
- In a large bowl; mix spinach, cheeses, eggs, salt and pepper (and ground beef if added).
- Place about 1 1/2 cups of marinara sauce in 9x13 inch pan. Spread it around to cover the bottom.
- Put the mixed filling into a plastic bag. (You can use either a frosting piping bag or a gallon zip bag.) Snip the corner, gather the top and squeeze the filling into the corner.
- Hold an uncooked manicotti shell in your hand and squeeze the filling inside the shell. Let it overflow on both sides. Place the filled shell into the sauce-lined pan.
- Repeat with remaining manicotti and fill the pan with stuffed shells, until you run out of shells and filling. (You should be able to fill 12-14 shells-if you run out of room in your pan, use a separate smaller pan to accommodate the extra.)
- Cover the pasta with marinara sauce. Sprinkle 1/2 cup Romano/Parmesan cheese on top. Cover with foil and place it in the oven for 50 minutes.
- Remove foil and bake for an additional 10 minutes.
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