I love Cottage Cheese. It’s something that is almost always in my fridge. In high school I would eat it as a bedtime snack.
Cooking with cottage cheese is fantastic. It’s long been the cheese source in my lasagna (as it was in my mother’s recipe).
I decided to play around with my traditional lasagna recipe and convert it into a cannelloni recipe using Gay Lea Cottage Cheese. I have to admit that I have an unhealthy love of noodles stuffed with something. Give me a cannelloni or a ravioli and I am happy.
This recipe can be prepared in advance and frozen or makes an easy pot luck/buffet meal when entertaining. It’s vegetarian and very easy to make. If you don’t want to stuff the cannelloni, use the same ingredients and layer them into lasagna noodles.
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Recipe: Spinach Cannelloni
Ingredients
1 box oven ready cannelloni
1 jar pasta sauce (about 5.5-6 cups) – look for low sodium!
1 cup water
1 egg
1 cup cottage cheese
1 cup shredded mozzarella
4 cups chopped spinach
2 tsp pepper
Directions
1- In a bowl, combine cottage cheese, 1/3 cup mozzarella, chopped spinach, egg and pepper.
2- Separately, combine the jar of pasta and the water.
3- Cover the bottom of a 9×13 casserole dish with 1.5 cups of sauce mix.
4- Stuff each cannelloni shell with cottage cheese and spinach mixture. You can use small teaspoons but it’s easier to just use your hands.
5- Line each stuffed cannelloni up in the casserole dish.
6- Pour the remaining sauce evenly over cannelloni. Top with remaining shredded mozzarella.
7- Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Let rest at least 10 minutes before serving.
Enjoy!
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I will be trying this recipe this weekend.
I have never tried oven ready pasta, how is the texture when cooked?
Cottage cheese is also a staple on our home.
I have been making lasagna more often lately but I think now that I see your recipe that I would like to try my hand at making some cannelloni the next time we have cottage cheese in the fridge.
My favorite Cottage Cheese Recipe is Cottage Cheese & Bacon. You simply dice 1 large chunk of bacon into small squares and fry them. Mix in 1 package egg noodles and stir in 1 container of cottage cheese and 1 container of sour cream. This is a Hungarian recipe my grandparents passed down to us and everyone in our family just loves it!
I always use cottage cheese in my lasagne at it’s great and easy.
I’d like to try my cottage cheese in a smoothie. I’ve seen a few recipes for it.
one of my fave, quick and easy recipes is:
http://www.kraftcanada.com/recipes/easy-broccoli-cottage-bake-82793
I usually use cottage cheese in recipes but I would like to try it with granola and fruit.
pam w h
I love, love, love cottage cheese on baked potatoes. Much more protein and less fat than sour cream but still tangy and delicious.
i don’t enjoy cottage cheese nearly as often as i should! The only way i know how to use it is layered in lasagna – i like your recipe above though – sounds so good!
I going to try cottage cheese for the cannelloni recipe featured. 🙂
I would like to try making meatballs with it, I saw a recipe on Gay Lea’s website for Cottage Cheese Meatball Marinara that looks good. I can get my family to eat cottage cheese but I have to disguise it!
Yum! 🙂 I like cottage cheese with cucumbers just as a snack. I also like adding it to casseroles.
What a great idea! Cannelloni just feels more special than lasagna.
Thanks!
Sarah
I would like to try it in lasagna. I have never made a homemade lasagna and I would love to try to make one.
thanks
I would love to try it in a cheesecake.