Shrimp Crab Cannelloni With Roasted Red Pepper Sauce Recipe 385

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 degrees 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 15 to 20 minutes. Serve immediately.
• 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 and then cover and refrigerate.)
• Yield: about 4 cups

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:

• 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.

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.