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Ingredients
1 good sized Onion, diced
4 large pieces of Garlic, chopped or crushed
300 - 500 grams beef Mince
4 rashers Bacon
1 bag or around 4 bunches Spinach
1 250g pot of Cottage Cheese
1 t Nutmeg
2 Eggs
Salt and Pepper to season
1 jar Tomato Passata or 2 cans crushed Tomatoes.
1 box Cannelloni tubes (I usually have one box extra spare in case I have too much mixture)
Grated Cheese for the top
Step 1) Cook Onion and garlic in frying pan with oil of choice. Add Bacon, then Mince to cook. Cool.
Step 2) Steam Spinach. Once Steamed, chop into bits (I normally uses scissors and chop 4 - 5 times whilst in the steamer). Cool.
Step 3) Combine Cottage Cheese, Eggs, Nutmeg and seasoning in a large bowl. Mix to gether, then add cooled Spinach and meat. This makes a bowl of slop. Now prepare to get a little messy.....
Step 4) Firstly prepare the dish you are going to cook the Cannelloni in, an oblong oven dish is the best. Tip either one can of Tomatoes or half the Tomato Passata into the dish as a base.
Step 5) Once the mixture is cool enough to handle, start filling the tubes with the mixture. Make sure you have clean hands! You can try using a spoon but it is easiest to hover the tube over the bowl and shove the mixture in at one end as far as possible then flip and fill the other end using your fingers. Once stuffed full, place the tube in the dish on top of the tomatoes. Repeat until either the dish is full or the mixture is gone. Depending on the dish you may need to halve the tubes, which is not so easy but I grab a serrated knife and score a line at half way, then snap the tube with my hands and it breaks roughly in two along the line, you may have casualties.
Step 6) Cover the tubes with either the other can of Tomatoes or the other half of the Passata. Cover with grated Cheese and cook in the oven (180 degrees Celsius) for 40 mins or until browned. You can stab it to check whether the pasta is soft.
Step 7) Either eat, or cool and reheat - tastes good either way!! Can be frozen after the first bake as well.
