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Heading: Pasta
Cuisine: Italian
Food Type: Meat
No of Portions: 4
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Ingredients & Prep
8 Cannelloni tubes
Beef Ragu Sauce
500 ml
Water
400 g
Tomato tinned chopped
500 g
Beef mince
175 ml
Red wine
1 Onion med chopped
60 g
Tomato puree
2 Garlic cloves, chopped
1 Celery stick, finely diced
1 Beef stock cube or gel pot
1 Bay leaf
3 tbsp
Olive oil
Tomato Sauce
250 ml
Tomato passata
1 Garlic cloves, chopped
1 tsp
Basil dried
1 Red chilli finely chopped
1 tsp
Caster sugar
1/2 tsp
Salt
2 tbsp
Olive oil
White sauce
380 ml
Milk whole
100 g
Double cream
1 Chicken stock cube or gel pot
50 g
Butter unsalted
25 g
Flour plain white
1 Bay leaf
1 pinch
Nutmeg ground
Topping
sprinkle
Parmesan cheese grated
sprinkle
Black pepper freshly ground
Method
Step 1
In a frying pan fry off onion, garlic & celery in olive oil until soft, add beef mince & fry until browned, add wine & reduce it by a half, add canned tomato, water, stock & bay leaf then cook on lowest heat for 1 hour, keep your eye on it in case it dries out, if it does add a little water, when finished set aside to cool, ragu needs to be quite dry at this stage so if still wet cook a bit longer with lid off stirring all the same time until dry.
Step 2
Make the tomato sauce add oil, chilli & garlic to a pan & cook until garlic is very light brown, add passata & mix to stop garlic going brown & bitter, add basil, sugar & salt stir & cook for 1 min, remove from the heat & allow to cool.
Step 3
Fill each Cannelloni tube with the ragu.
Step 4
Pre heat oven at 200'c.
Step 5
Pour the tomato sauce in the bottom of a baking dish, then place filled cannelloni tubes on top for the sauce.
Step 6
Make the white sauce by melting the butter in a pan on a medium heat, add flour & cook out for 1 min, take off the heat add milk, bay leaf & stock cube, Whisk sauce until there is no lumps, place pan back on the heat & cook until it stars to boil, then carefully pour over cannelloni tubes, grate over Parmesan cheese & a good grind of black pepper.
Step 7
Bake in the oven for 25 to 30 min or until brown on top.
Suggestion & Tips
You could add some other herbs to the tomato sauce. Serve with a nice salad.