Ingredients:
- 3 zucchinis (courgettes)
- 1 onion
- 200 g of fresh goat cheese
- 12 cannelloni
- 400 ml of tomato coulis
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 5 pinches of thyme
- 3 pinches of oregano
- salt and pepper
Preparation:
1. Mince the onion and grate the zucchinis.
2. Sweat the minced onion in one tablespoon of olive oil.
3. Add the zucchinis and let cook for about 5 minutes while stirring from time to times.
4. While it is cooking start boiling a large pan of water, with a bit of salt and a tablespoon of olive oil.
5. To the zucchini mixture add the goat cheese cut in small pieces, as well as the thyme. Let cook 2 more minutes before taking the mixture off the heat and let it cool down.
6. Preheat the oven at 200 °C.
7. Once the water has boiled, put the cannelloni in for 4 minutes, and then drain them and rinse them in cold water.
8. Lay out the cannelloni on a plate and then fill them with the mixture one by one.
9. Cover the bottom of an oven dish with half of the tomato sauce, line up the filled cannelloni, and top them with the rest of the sauce. Sprinkle with oregano, and put in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
C'est prês!
Variations:
- Different types will obviously give you a different final product. Experiment!
- Instead of the tomato coulis, you can also try with a flavored tomato sauce, e.g. basil tomato sauce.
- You can also put Tabasco in the tomato coulis if you like your food spicy!
Tips:
- To fill in the cannelloni faster, you can cut a small hole in the corner of a disposable freezing bag and put the mixture in it.
Opinion: ALthough I must admit that filling in the cannelloni is not the easiest thing in the world, and and that being a bit clumsy myself, my kitchen afterwards was a bit of a mess, this Italian recipe in the end is really quite good, and is worth the effort.
I Cook For...: Friends or family, definitely for a group of people rather than for one person! You will impress them with the originality of this recipe!!
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