Sausage and Cheese Manicotti

Name: Sausage and Cheese Manicotti
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 794 grams Italian plum tomatoes with basil; 118 milliliters dry white wine; 8 larges fresh basil leaves, slivered; 0 teaspoons coarsely ground black pepper; 340 grams Italian sweet sausages with fennel seeds (about 3 1/2 sausages); 454 grams manicotti (large tubular pasta); 1 Tbsp olive oil; 118 milliliters finely chopped onion; 2 Tbsps freshly grated Parmesan cheese; 237 milliliters 1/4-inch cubes mild imported provolone cheese (provola) or sharp domestic provolone cheese; 0 teaspoons dried crushed red pepper; 473 milliliters fresh whole-milk ricotta cheese or one 15-ounce container whole-milk ricotta cheese

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Sausage and Cheese Manicotti a try. One portion of this dish contains around 33g of protein, 28g of fat, and a total of 711 calories. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 25% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up canned tomatoes, sausages, one 15-ounce container whole-milk ricotta cheese, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the olive oil you could follow this main course with the Sauteed Banana, Granolan and Yogurt Parfait as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Pierce each sausage several times with tip of knife.

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Sausage

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Knife

Place sausages in heavy large saucepan; add onion. Cover; cook over medium-low heat 5 minutes. Turn sausages over; stir onion. Cover and continue to cook until sausages release some fat and onion begins to color, about 5 minutes. Uncover; increase heat to medium.

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Sausage

Onion

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Sauce Pan

Add wine and simmer until wine evaporates and onion is golden, stirring often, about 5 minutes.

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Onion

Wine

Remove from heat.

Fit food mill directly onto pan.

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Frying Pan

Add tomatoes with juices and puree through mill into pan, leaving only seeds behind and scraping all tomato pulp from underside of food mill into pan; or puree tomatoes with juices in processor, then strain out seeds and add puree to pan.

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Tomato

Seeds

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Frying Pan

Add crushed red pepper. Simmer very gently over low heat until sauce thickens and reduces to scant 2 cups, stirring sauce and turning sausages occasionally, about 1 hour 15 minutes.

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Red Pepper Flakes

Sausage

Sauce

Add slivered basil and simmer sauce 5 minutes longer. Using tongs, transfer sausages to plate and cool. Season sauce to taste with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Sausage

Basil

Sauce

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Tongs

Place ricotta in medium bowl.

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Ricotta Cheese

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Bowl

Mix in provolone cubes, 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan, and black pepper.

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Black Pepper

Provolone

Parmesan

Cut sausages into 1/4-inch cubes; stir into cheese mixture. Season filling to taste with salt. (Sauce and filling can be made 1 day ahead. Cover separately and chill.)

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Sausage

Cheese

Sauce

Salt

Cook manicotti in large pot of boiling salted water until still somewhat firm to bite and about 3/4 cooked, about 7 minutes (depending on brand). Using tongs, carefully transfer manicotti from pot to foil-lined baking sheet and cool.

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Manicotti

Water

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Baking Sheet

Tongs

Aluminum Foil

Pot

Brush olive oil over bottom of 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish; spread 3 tablespoons sauce over. Using teaspoon, fill each of 12 manicotti with about 1/3 cup cheese-sausage mixture. Arrange stuffed pasta in single layer in prepared dish and spoon remaining sauce over. (Can be made 2 hours ahead. Cover with plastic wrap; let stand at room temperature.)

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Filled Pasta