Crab Cannelloni Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450°F Butter an ovenproof dish. Heat 1 tablespoon of the butter in a frying pan and add the shallots. Cook over a gentle heat for 1 minute.
• Add the shrimp, crabmeat and cognac. Season to taste and cook for 2-3 minutes.
• To make the sauce, melt the remaining butter in a saucepan and add the cornstarch. Cook over a medium heat for 3-4 minutes, without colouring.
• Gradually add the milk, stirring continuously, until the sauce is thick and smooth.
• Add half the sauce into the shrimp and crab mixture and stir in the dill.
• Lay the pasta out on a work surface, fill with the mixture and roll up into tube shapes. Arrange the cannelloni in the dish and pour over the remaining sauce.
• Scatter over the Parmesan cheese and cook for 10 minutes, until hot and golden. Serve with a crisp green salad.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat.
• Add the pasta and cook until tender but still firm to the bite, stirring occasionally, about 8-10 minutes.
• Drain pasta.
• In a large bowl, mix together ricotta, 3/4 cup Parmesan, egg yolk, basil or parsley, crab, salt, and pepper.
• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• Fill the cannelloni with the crab mixture and place in buttered baking dish.
• MAKE THE BECHAMEL SAUCE:.
• In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat.
• Add the flour and whisk until smooth, about 2 minutes.
• Gradually add the warm milk, whisking constantly(if not it will be all lumpy)until the sauce is thick, smooth and creamy, about 10 minutes(DO NOT allow the sauce to boil).
• Remove from the heat and stir in the salt, pepper, and nutmeg. (The sauce can be made up to 3 days ahead. Cool and then cover and refrigerate).
• Top the filled cannelloni with the Bechamel Sauce and sprinkle with remaining Parmesan cheese.

Steps:

• Thaw phyllo according to the instructions on the package.
• Melt the butter in a skillet and saute the garlic for a few minutes, then add the spinach and cook until the spinach is dry.
• Mix together the rest of the ingredients, except the phyllo and melted butter, folding in the garlic/spinach mix.
• Cut the phyllo lengthwise into 2 strips, stack and cover with some plastic wrap or a lightly dampened dish towel.
• For each pastry roll, take 2 strips from the stack and lay them out one on top of the other. Brush the top strip with melted butter. Place about 4 tablespoons of filling at the bottom of the strip.
• Fold the bottom edge of the phyllo over the filling.
• Fold the left edge of the phyllo strip over about 1/2 inch and brush with butter. Repeat with the right edge.
• Now roll up the pastry, egg roll style, stopping halfway through to brush the top with butter, then continue rolling pastry to the end.
• Place the roll seam side down on a greased baking sheet, brushing the top of the pastry with more butter.
• The recipe can be made to this point in the morning to be baked and completed that evening.
• Bake in a preheated 350°F oven until golden brown, about 30 minutes.

Steps:

• First make the stuffing. In a deep skillet cook the onion, celery and carrot in the olive oil over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, for 3 minutes, or until softened. Add the garlic and cook the mixture, stirring, 1 minute. Add the veal, pork and beef and cook, stirring occasionally, until no longer pink. Add the wine, reduce for 1 minute and stir in the broth. Add the herbs, bay leaf and salt and pepper. Bring the mixture to a boil and simmer, covered, 15 minutes. Uncover and reduce until almost dry. Discard bay leaf. Transfer mixture to a bowl and let cool. Mix in egg yolks until well combined. Meanwhile, in a saucepan set over moderately low heat melt the butter, add the flour and whisk the mixture for 2 minutes. Add the milk, nutmeg and salt and pepper and simmer the mixture, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes, or until thickened. Stir in 1/2 cup of the Parmesan and the parsley. In a bowl combine the meat mixture with the cheese and parsley sauce. Make the tomato sauce and stir in the heavy cream.
• Now, make the pasta. Cut the dough crosswise into 5-inch lengths. In a pot of boiling salted water cook the noodles, a few at a time, for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes, or until they are al dente, transferring them as they are cooked to a bowl of cold water. Spread the noodles in one layer on paper towels to drain. Spoon 1/4 cup of the filling down the center of one noodle, roll the noodle to enclose the filing, and transfer the cannelloni, seam side down, to a well-buttered gratin dish.Continue to make cannelloni with the remaining noodles and filling in the same manner, arranging them in one layer. Ladle the sauce over the cannelloni and sprinkle with the remaining Parmesan. Bake at 400 degrees F for 10 minutes or until bubbling. Run under the broiler about 4 inches from the heat, for 2 minutes, or until golden.

Steps:

• Make sauce:
• Cook shallot, carrot, celery, reserved shrimp shells, and reserved scallop muscles in 3 tablespoons butter in a 2- to 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderately low heat, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are softened and pale golden, about 5 minutes. Add tomato paste and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add wine and boil over high heat, stirring occasionally, until reduced to about 1/4 cup, 6 to 8 minutes. Add water, seafood glaze (if using), and parsley sprigs and simmer, covered, 30 minutes.
• Discard parsley and purée stock, including shrimp shells, in 2 batches in a blender (use caution when blending hot liquids). Pour through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, pressing on and discarding solids.
• Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter in cleaned saucepan over moderately low heat, then add flour and cook roux over low heat, stirring, 3 minutes. Add warm seafood stock all at once, whisking, and bring to a boil, whisking. Add 1/2 cup cream and gently simmer sauce, whisking occasionally, 10 minutes. Stir in lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
• Transfer 1/2 cup sauce to a bowl set in a larger bowl of ice and cold water to cool for filling.
• Make seafood filling:
• Cut one third of shrimp and one third of scallops into 1/4-inch pieces and toss with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Purée remaining shrimp and scallops in a food processor with Cognac, cooled 1/2 cup sauce, remaining 3/4 teaspoon salt, and remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Add remaining 1/2 cup cream and pulse just until combined. Transfer mousse to a large bowl and stir in shrimp and scallop pieces and chives.
• Cook pasta and assemble cannelloni:
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Boil lasagne noodles a few at a time in a large pot of boiling salted water , stirring to separate, until al dente, about 2 minutes for fresh noodles or about 6 minutes for no-boil. Gently transfer noodles with tongs and a slotted spatula to a large bowl of cold water to stop cooking, then lift out, shaking off water, and lay flat on dry kitchen towels (not terry cloth). Spread 1/3 cup mousse over each noodle, leaving a 1/2-inch border on both short ends. Starting with a short end, loosely roll up each noodle.
• Spread about 1/2 cup sauce on bottom of casserole dish and arrange cannelloni, seam sides down, snugly in 1 layer over sauce. Pour remaining sauce over cannelloni and bake, covered with foil, in middle of oven until sauce is bubbling and filling is just cooked through, 25 to 30 minutes. (To test filling for doneness, insert a metal skewer into a cannelloni and hold it there 5 seconds. Remove skewer and press it against your bottom lip: If metal is warm, casserole is hot all the way through and filling is cooked.)
• Preheat broiler.
• Remove foil and broil cannelloni about 3 inches from heat until brown spots appear, 3 to 5 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
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Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Cook pasta as directed on package, omitting salt.
• Meanwhile, melt 1 Tbsp. butter in large nonstick skillet on medium heat. Add onions; cook 5 to 6 min. or until crisp-tender, stirring frequently. Add spinach and garlic; cook and stir 1 to 2 min. or just until spinach is wilted. Spoon spinach mixture into medium bowl.
• Melt remaining butter in same skillet. Stir in flour; cook 2 min., stirring constantly. Gradually add milk, whisking constantly after each addition. Bring to boil, whisking constantly; cook and stir 5 min. or until thickened. Remove skillet from heat. Add nutmeg, pepper and 1/2 cup Parmesan to white sauce; mix well.
• Add ricotta to spinach mixture along with 1 cup of the cheese sauce and 1/2 cup of the remaining Parmesan; mix lightly. Stir in crabmeat. Spoon into resealable plastic bag.
• Drain pasta; rinse with cold water. Cut small piece off one bottom corner of filled plastic bag; use to squeeze enough crab mixture into both sides of pasta shells until shells are evenly filled with crab mixture. Place in 13x9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray; top with remaining cheese sauce, then remaining Parmesan.
• Bake 30 to 35 min. or until heated through.

Steps:

• Start preparing the bechamel sauce by melting butter in medium saucepan over medium-low heat.
• Whisk in flour and cook 3 minutes.
• Whisk in milk and bring to boil, stirring.
• Add salt and nutmeg.
• Reduce heat and simmer until the same consistency as thickened cream.
• Refrigerate the sauce for 30 minutes or more.
• Combine all filling ingredients in a bowl and mix well with 1/2 cup of the bechamel sauce.
• Fill cannelloni tubes with the mixture.
• Spread pasta (tomato) sauce evenly over the bottom of a small baking dish.
• Place the cannelloni tubes over the top in the dish.
• Pour the remaining bechamel sauce over the top and sprinkle lightly with dried parsley.
• Bake for 30 minutes at 180°C / 360°F.

Steps:

• In a large bowl mix the chopped shrimp, crabmeat, ricotta cheese, shallots, parsley, lemon zest, egg, parmesan cheese, milk, salt and pepper. Mix well and put seafood mixture in a ziploc bag. Cut the corner of the bag. Squeeze shrimp mixture onto the edge of the egg roll wrapper. Roll up the egg rolls and put two cannelloni, seam side down, into an oven proof baking dish and set aside. Preheat oven to 350°F. Put your sauce ingredients into a pan, except the parmesan cheese. Heat on medium heat stirring constantly. When warmed through, add the parmesan cheese and stir until melted and slightly thickened. Pour sauce over cannelloni. Cook for 15-20 minutes or until sauce is bubbly. Top with parmesan, parsley and lemon wedges.

Steps:

• Cook cannelloni according to package directions; drain. Toss pasta with 1 tablespoons butter; set aside.
• Melt remaining 3/4 cup butter in a heavy saucepan over low heat; add flour, stirring until smooth. Cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Gradually add milk; cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is thickened and bubbly. Stir in nutmeg. Set aside half of the sauce.
• Add egg yolks to remaining sauce, stirring well. Stir in crabmeat, mozzarella cheese, salt and pepper. Stuff each cannelloni shell with an equal amount of crab mixture; place stuffed shells in two lightly greased 13x9x2 inch baking dishes.
• Add tomato paste and 1/2 cup parmesan cheese to reserved sauce and spoon over shells.
• Cook mushrooms and sage in 3 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat until tender, stirring occasionally. Spoon mushrooms over sauce and sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup parmesan cheese.
• Bake at 400 degrees F. for 20 minutes.
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Steps:

• For sauce:
• Heat oil in large pot over medium-high heat. Add onions and garlic and sauté until translucent, about 5 minutes. Mix in fresh tomatoes, canned tomatoes with their juices, basil, thyme, oregano, bay leaves and crushed red pepper and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer until sauce is reduced to scant 5 cups, stirring occasionally, about 45 minutes. Discard bay leaves. Working in batches, puree sauce in blender; return to same pot. Add cream and vinegar and simmer 15 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Refrigerate.
• For Cannelloni:
• Cook noodles in pot of boiling salted water until almost tender. Drain. Cool in bowl of cold water.
• Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; sauté until onion is tender, about 6 minutes. Add shrimp; sauté just until opaque, about 3 minutes. Stir in basil, oregano and crushed red pepper. Cool.
• Mix ricotta, provolone, Parmesan, crabmeat and shrimp mixture in bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Mix in egg.
• Butter 13 x 9 x 2-inch glass baking dish. Spread generous 1 cup tomato cream sauce in bottom of dish. Drain lasagna noodles; trim to 8-inch lengths. Spread scant 1/3 cup shrimp filling over each noodle, leaving 1/2-inch border on all sides. Staring at 1 short end, roll up each noodle jelly roll style. Place in prepared pan, seam side down. Pour remaining sauce over cannelloni. Cover with foil. (Can be made 1 day ahead; refrigerate.)
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Bake foil-covered cannelloni until heated through, about 45 minutes.