Crab Cannelloni Recipes

CRAB & RICOTTA CANNELLONI RECIPE - (4.2/5)

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 to 10 minutes. Drain pasta. In a large bowl, mix together ricotta, 3/4 cup parmesan, egg yolk, basil, crab, salt, and pepper. Preheat oven to 350°F. Fill the cannelloni with the crab mixture and place in a buttered baking dish. Top the filled cannelloni with the bechamel sauce and sprinkle with the remaining parmesan cheese. Bake until bubbly and the top is golden brown, about 45 minutes. Serve immediately. 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, 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, then cover and refrigerate.)

CRAB AND RICOTTA CANNELLONI

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.

CANNELLONI

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.

CRAB STUFFED CANNELLONI

Steps:

• Sauce Put garlic butter in pan and saute garlic for 30 sec, add cream and bring up to simmer, add pureed peppers and return sauce to simmer. Add hand full's of parmesan cheese until the sauce thickens Filling Saute onions until soft. Put first 10 ingredients in bowl and mix by hand breaking up the Krab in even small pieces. Put mixture in zip lock bag and cut off one corner to squeeze out evenly on egg roll wrapper Roll each wrapper and place in cooking dish Pour over the sauce sprinkle with parsley and cook I made mine in morning so it was cold so I cooked it at 350 for about thirty min. On the show it was 8 min. but they put 3 1/2 rolls in an individual dish and cooked immediately

SHRIMP AND CRAB CANNELLONI

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.

SHRIMP AND CRAB CANNELLONI

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.

SHRIMP & CRAB CANNELLONI WITH ROASTED RED PEPPER SAUCE RECIPE - (3.8/5)

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.

CRAB AND SPINACH STUFFED MANICOTTI

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.