After making the spinach pie last night, I had quite a bit of filling left over, which I could have turned into kalitsounia (Cretan specialty). That would involve rolling out more filo pastry, which I didn't feel like doing this evening (it's a little hectic at home at the moment).
A Greek cooking show was playing this afternoon, which gave me this idea of filling canneloni with spanakopita mixture, and topping with bechamel sauce. The result: a kind of vegan pastitsio.
This recipe would also work very well with the classic pastitsio recipe which uses No 2 tubular macaroni. There is no real recipe here - I made most of it up as I went along, picking up a packet of canneloni from the supermarket to get me started. After filling the whole packet of 250g canneloni, I simply piled them into the baking vessel, poured over a bechamel sauce made of butter, flour and milk, and finally added some oil and water to just under the level of the canneloni. A little grated cheese was sprinkled over them, and the meal was cooked in the wood-fired oven.
I had this excellent meal with a glass of Roditis Sauvignon Blanc - great pairing of wine and meal, but I'm still not a wine connoisseur enough to be able to tell you why it paired so well.
If you liked this recipe, you will probably also like Laurie's green pastitsio too.
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A Greek cooking show was playing this afternoon, which gave me this idea of filling canneloni with spanakopita mixture, and topping with bechamel sauce. The result: a kind of vegan pastitsio.
This recipe would also work very well with the classic pastitsio recipe which uses No 2 tubular macaroni. There is no real recipe here - I made most of it up as I went along, picking up a packet of canneloni from the supermarket to get me started. After filling the whole packet of 250g canneloni, I simply piled them into the baking vessel, poured over a bechamel sauce made of butter, flour and milk, and finally added some oil and water to just under the level of the canneloni. A little grated cheese was sprinkled over them, and the meal was cooked in the wood-fired oven.
I had this excellent meal with a glass of Roditis Sauvignon Blanc - great pairing of wine and meal, but I'm still not a wine connoisseur enough to be able to tell you why it paired so well.
If you liked this recipe, you will probably also like Laurie's green pastitsio too.
©All Rights Reserved/Organically cooked. No part of this blog may be reproduced and/or copied by any means without prior consent from Maria Verivaki.
Looks fabulous, Maria...I would call it Spanako-canneloni but same fab look and flavour!
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely delicious Maria! I am going to surely make this very soon... Yummmmm!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOoooh, that looks scrumptious! ♥
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