Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti
Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, spinach and cheese stuffed manicotti. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Spoon fill mixture into each manicotti shell. And lighter eaters will be plenty full with just one shell. Cook pasta as directed on package.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have spinach and cheese stuffed manicotti using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti:
  1. Take 10 oz Frozen Spinach (thawed completely and squeezed dry)
  2. Prepare 8 oz Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
  3. Make ready 15 oz Ricotta (or you could use cottage cheese instead)
  4. Take 4 oz Cream Cheese
  5. Get 1/2 cup Shredded Romano or Parmesan Cheese
  6. Get 2 large Eggs
  7. Make ready 1/2 tsp Salt
  8. Prepare 1/2 tsp Pepper
  9. Make ready 1 box (12-14 Shells) Manicotti Noodles (DO NOT COOK NOODLES)
  10. Get 4 cup Marinara Sauce
  11. Take 1/2 cup Shredded Romano or Parmesan Cheese (for topping)
  12. Get OPTIONAL:
  13. Prepare 1 lb Ground Beef

Meanwhile, for filling, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Stir in the cottage cheese, spinach, Parmesan cheese, eggs and salt. Stuff cream cheese mixture into uncooked manicotti shells. This is a wonderfully cheesy manicotti recipe made easier by not having to cook the shells first.

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.

The original recipe source idea is RecipeGirl, but made a few of my own changes and additions. Hope you try it, it is worth the time. In a large bowl, combine the ricotta, spinach, onion, egg, garlic, Italian seasoning, nutmeg, salt, pepper, and half of each the mozzarella and parmesan cheese. Drain spinach with several paper towels and squeeze until spinach is well drained. Add spinach and onion to cheese mixture and mix well.

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