Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti
Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, spinach and cheese stuffed manicotti. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Repeat with remaining manicotti and fill the pan with the stuffed shells, until you run out of shells and filling. Cover with a generous layer of marinara Pop open a bottle of red wine and eat! Stuff each cooked manicotti shell with filling mixture.

Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
  1. Prepare 10 oz Frozen Spinach (thawed completely and squeezed dry)
  2. Prepare 8 oz Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
  3. Prepare 15 oz Ricotta (or you could use cottage cheese instead)
  4. Take 4 oz Cream Cheese
  5. Take 1/2 cup Shredded Romano or Parmesan Cheese
  6. Take 2 large Eggs
  7. Take 1/2 tsp Salt
  8. Get 1/2 tsp Pepper
  9. Take 1 box (12-14 Shells) Manicotti Noodles (DO NOT COOK NOODLES)
  10. Prepare 4 cup Marinara Sauce
  11. Take 1/2 cup Shredded Romano or Parmesan Cheese (for topping)
  12. Make ready OPTIONAL:
  13. Take 1 lb Ground Beef

How to make ricotta cheese and spinach filling. This is a wonderfully cheesy manicotti recipe made easier by not having to cook the shells first. In a large bowl, mix spinach, cheeses, eggs, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, salt and pepper. This particular recipe is vegetarian with spinach and other cheeses.

Instructions to make Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°
  2. If adding ground beef, brown and drain fat.
  3. In a large bowl; mix spinach, cheeses, eggs, salt and pepper (and ground beef if added).
  4. Place about 1 1/2 cups of marinara sauce in 9x13 inch pan. Spread it around to cover the bottom.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.)
  8. 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.
  9. Remove foil and bake for an additional 10 minutes.

Spinach Ricotta Stuffed Manicotti is what dinner time dreams are made of! Stuff manicotti shells with spinach and cheese mixture. The easiest way to stuff manicotti shells is the put the filling mixture into a plastic bag. You can use either a frosting piping bag or a gallon zip bag with one corner cut to let the filling out. Stuffed with mushrooms, leafy spinach, Ricotta cheese, and topped with traditional Marinara pasta sauce, this is a classic baked manicotti recipe.

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