Spicy, Creamy Cannelloni
This tasty and easy vegan pasta dish is EPIC. You know we like to mix things up in BOSH HQ and this plant based cannelloni is a speedy dinner idea, packed with flavour! A FANTASTIC dish to rustle up for #veganuary!
Serves
Ingredients
For the cream 'cheese'
<item-todo-done>2 tbsp Nooch<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>120ml nut milk<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>180g soaked cashews<item-todo-done><item-todo-done> Pinch of salt<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>180g soaked cashews<item-todo-done>
For the spicy sauce
<item-todo-done>1 ½ tbsp sun-dried tomato oil<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>2 shallots<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>2 garlic cloves - minced<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>1 red bell pepper<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>2 red chillies<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>120g sun-dried tomatoes<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>120g sun-dried tomatoes<item-todo-done>
For the canneloni
<item-todo-done>8 cannelloni tubes<item-todo-done><item-todo-done> olive oil - for greasing<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>360g pre-made tomato chilli sauce<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>½ block of plant-based cheese - grated<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>360g pre-made tomato chilli sauce<item-todo-done>
Before you start
Preheat oven to 180°C | Lasagne dish | piping bag | Powerful blender | Saucepan | Tinfoil
Make the 'cheese'
- Put all the Ricotta "Cheese" ingredients in a liquidiser and whizz them up into a thick cream (it should be the consistency of garlic and herb cheese)
Make the sauce
- Heat the sun-dried tomato oil in a small saucepan, fry the shallots and garlic until they're nicely cooked
- Throw the red pepper, chillies and sun-dried tomatoes into the frying pan and cook everything together
- Put the contents of that pan into the food processor & pulse it in to the 'cheese' (make sure it's only mixed, not blended together - it should be cream with red streaks, not light red)
Assemble the canneloni tubes
- Put the 'cheese' into a piping bag and pipe it into the tubes of cannelloni pasta so they're well packed
- Grease a lasagne dish and place the packed tubes of pasta neatly into it
- Pour the spicy tomato sauce over the cannelloni
- Cover with tin foil, put the dish in the oven and bake for 30 minutes at 180℃
- Sprinkle on the grated cheese, then bake for a further 10 minutes.
Time to serve
- Take the dish out of the oven and serve the cannelloni with a side salad