Easy No-Stress Baked Spinach Manicotti Recipe

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Easy No-Stress Baked Spinach Manicotti
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Ingredients
12
Count
Nutrition
579
Calories
Total time
80
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Steam spinach for a few minutes, shock in ice water, drain, squeeze water out and chop.
  2. Mix spinach and half of the mozzarella into the ricotta cheese. Add the eggs and parsley and mix well. Saute the shallots in the oil, cool down and add to the filling mixture. Season with finely ground black pepper and nutmeg. Put the filling into a gallon-sized baggie and chill the filling for an hour.
  3. Spread 2 cups of your favorite marinara sauce (use Easy Light and Lovely Marinara Sauce) (Steam the spinach lightly, plunge into ice water to preserve the color, drain well and squeeze dry. Chop it finely.) into the bottom of a 13 x 9 baking pan which is greased or sprayed. If your sauce is thick you can thin it with a little bit of water. (refined sauce works best rather than chunky sauce).
  4. Fill the uncooked manicotti tubes with the ricotta mixture. Cut a corner of the plastic bag off and squirt the filling from the center of the tube to the outside. Do it this way from both ends of the tube to make it full and trust me it's easier this way.
  5. Line the filled tubes up in your pan. Cover with remaining sauce and sprinkle with the remaining mozzarella cheese.
  6. Cover the pan tightly with plastic wrap (I use Stretch-tite which works very well). Put in the refrigerator overnight.
  7. Next day leave the manicotti on the counter to come up to room temperature, about 1 or 2 hours. Pre-heat the oven to 350*. Leave the plastic wrap on the manicotti and wrap over it with foil. I wrap the entire pan in foil and then seal it up tight. Pop it in the oven for an hour. Check the temperature with your instant read thermometer to see if it's 190 - 200 degrees.
  8. Remove it from the oven and if you like the top a little crunchy just unwrap the foil and the plastic and pop it back into the oven for 10 or 15 minutes. Rest for 15 minutes before serving.
  9. There ya go! Mangia!
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 579.44 Kcal (2426 kJ)
Calories from fat 246.67 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 27.41g 42%
Cholesterol 133.04mg 44%
Sodium 2200.29mg 92%
Potassium 1816.03mg 39%
Total Carbs 35.78g 12%
Sugars 18.93g 76%
Dietary Fiber 9.56g 38%
Protein 46.05g 92%
Vitamin C 39.6mg 66%
Iron 7mg 39%
Calcium 1227.3mg 123%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 93.67 Kcal (392 kJ)
Calories from fat 39.88 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 4.43g 42%
Cholesterol 21.51mg 44%
Sodium 355.7mg 92%
Potassium 293.58mg 39%
Total Carbs 5.78g 12%
Sugars 3.06g 76%
Dietary Fiber 1.55g 38%
Protein 7.44g 92%
Vitamin C 6.4mg 66%
Iron 1.1mg 39%
Calcium 198.4mg 123%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 13.1
    Points
  • 14
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium

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