Best Manicotti Eggplant Bake Gone Wild Recipes
EGGPLANT MANICOTTI WITH RICOTTA, ASIAGO, AND SPINACH FILLING
Steps:
- For sauce:
- Heat oil in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion, celery, carrot, and garlic; sauté until tender, about 8 minutes. Add wine and cook 3 minutes. Add crushed tomatoes, stock, and basil; bring to boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 30 minutes to blend flavors. Season with salt and pepper. Cool.
- For manicotti:
- Place ricotta cheese in strainer set over large bowl. Let stand until excess liquid drains from cheese, about 2 hours. Transfer ricotta cheese to medium bowl. Stir in Asiago cheese, spinach, nutmeg, and cayenne. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Mix in egg.
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Oil 2 large baking sheets. Brush both sides of eggplant slices with olive oil; arrange on prepared sheets. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake until eggplant slices are tender, about 13 minutes. Cool on sheets.
- Place 1 eggplant slice on work surface. Place scant 2 tablespoons ricotta mixture near narrower end of eggplant slice. Roll up, enclosing filling. Repeat with remaining eggplant slices and filling.
- Spread half of sauce over bottom of 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish. Arrange eggplant manicotti in single layer atop sauce. Spoon remaining sauce over. (Manicotti can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Bake manicotti until heated through, about 20 minutes. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and serve.
- Available at specialty foods stores and some supermarkets.
MANICOTTI ITALIAN CASSEROLE
Some members of my family call it manicotti, some call it Italian casserole. So I call it Manicotti Italian Casserole. This is one of my all time favorite meals to make, and it's super easy! For gatherings I make the whole recipe, for my family I cut it in half.
Provided by ERINLOVE65
Categories World Cuisine Recipes European Italian
Time 40m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to boil. Pour in rigatoni, and cook until al dente, about 8 to 10 minutes. Drain, and set pasta aside.
- Meanwhile, brown ground beef and italian sausage in a large skillet over medium heat. With a slotted spoon, remove beef and sausage to a baking dish. Stir mushrooms, spaghetti sauce, and cooked pasta into the baking dish. Sprinkle cheese and pepperoni over the top.
- Bake in preheated oven until the cheese is brown and bubbly, about 20 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 909 calories, Carbohydrate 77.6 g, Cholesterol 126.8 mg, Fat 43 g, Fiber 8.5 g, Protein 52.1 g, SaturatedFat 18.4 g, Sodium 2247.8 mg, Sugar 23.5 g
MANICOTTI EGGPLANT BAKE GONE WILD
The recipe for the mole' meat sauce is posted on here " holy mole' meat pie " and I just love using Reynolds non stick foil!!! Great for "not cleaning up"..lol NOTE: You can get the Mexican tomato sauce at some markets, and of course if you have a Mexican store near you " we do & makes life so much easier " you can get it there, and of course you can get it on line at MexGrocer.com And if you are using the Rotel' tomatoes or plain tomato sauce remember to season it, with salt, pepper etc.
Provided by Irisa Raina 9 @Irisa
Categories Beef
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Wash and cut eggplant into small bite size pieces, and soak in salted water for about 15 minutes. Some say you don't need to soak eggplant but I like to because it removes some of the bitter taste.
- Boil pasta for about 3 minutes in salted water. Remove carefully and rinse to cool. This will continue cooking in the oven.
- Remove casings from chorizo and fry " loosely " remove from pan but do not discard grease.
- After that time rinse the eggplant very well, then add the smashed garlic, and eggplant and fry in the chorizo oil " adding olive oil " if necessary
- Once the eggplant is soft remove, discard any grease and wipe with paper towel to get as much of the grease out as you can. Try not to remove any of the burnt on pieces of the chorizo because that is where the flavor is.
- Put the eggplant, mole' sauce, chorizo in the same pan and cook till the mixture is thick. Cool completely.
- TO MAKE THE SAUCE:
- Cook all the ingredients till it has reduced and is thick.
- Carefully fill the manicotti noodles. If you have any mole' meat sauce left over, top the noodles before you put on the sauce, and cheese.
- To arrange the dish, put some of the tomato sauce on the bottom of the baking dish, add the filled pasta, top with mole' meat filling and put some more tomato sauce on top of the noodles.
- Now go and pile on the cheese.....ya can't really have to much cheese can you now????
- Bake 325 for about 45 covered, uncover and bake about 15 minutes longer till the cheese starts to melt and brown "depending on your oven".
- Now comes the best part.....enjoy!!!!!
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