Sweet Potato, Ricotta and Spinach Cannelloni

Sweet Potato, Ricotta and Spinach Cannelloni

  • DifficultyCapable cooks
  • Prep0:15
  • Cook0:45
  • Serves 4
  • Budget $ $ $
barkingmad
by barkingmad Last updated on 05/05/2025

Cannelloni made from lasagne sheets, stuffed with sweet potato, ricotta and spinach. Baked with a sauce using cream and stock rather than the more traditional tomato based sauces.

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Ingredients

  • 750 g sweet potatoes chopped peeled
  • 250 g ricotta
  • 2 cloves garlic crushed
  • 1 bunch chives trimmed
  • 400 g fresh lasagne sheets
  • 100 g spinach leaves cut into strips
  • 1 cup cream
  • 1 cup chicken stock (liquid)
  • 2 cups mozzarella

Method

  • Step 1
    Microwave sweet potato until tender. Cool and mash.
  • Step 2
    Preheat oven to 180C or 160C fan forced.
  • Step 3
    Grease a large baking dish.
  • Step 4
    Add ricotta cheese, spinach, garlic and chives to cooled sweet potato and mix well.
    Sweet Potato, Ricotta and Spinach Cannelloni
  • Step 5
    Lay a lasagne sheet on a flat clean surface.
  • Step 6
    Place sweet potato mixture along the centre of the lasagne sheet and roll up to enclose filling.
  • Step 7
    Place in prepared dish, seam side down.
  • Step 8
    Continue making cannelloni with remaining lasagne sheets and filling, until dish is full.
  • Step 9
    Mix cream and stock together and pour over cannelloni.
  • Step 10
    Top with cheese.
  • Step 11
    Bake for 30 minutes, until golden and bubbling.
  • Step 12
    Serve with a garden salad.

Equipment

  • 1 baking dish
Recipe Notes

Ricotta in a tub is more moist and easier to stir than from the deli.

Pumpkin works just as well as sweet potato and silverbeet substitutes well for spinach.

This dish is easily made vegetarian by using vegetable stock rather than the chicken in the sauce.

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