Ricotta Cheese

[blunomore]

Bought some for yesterday's spanakopita and now am burdened with half of it left over.

What recipes do you use it in? Not too fond of it, but do not want to waste either.

Thanks

 

[Nicci]

spinach and ricotta canneloni

I posted a recipe for it a while ago, cant seem to find it now...

 

[bwana]

Lasagne . . . manicotti . . . I think my step mother uses it in cheesecake?

 

[Nicci]

spinach and ricotta canneloni:

Fry some spinach in butter. Half way through add some ricotta / feta cheese. I like ricotta better. Stir it for a while (the cheese wont melt alot). Take out of pot and let it cool a bit.
Take caneloni tubes, and stuff it with the spinach filling.
Place in a greased oven dish. Pour over some Woolies Low Fat Cheese Sauce, and pop in the oven for about 30 - 45 min on 180, or till done. Sprinkle parmesan cheese over.
Its delicious!

 

[DJ...]

Stuffed in pasta, cheese cake, different types of sauces, spreads for sarmies, part of a stuffing for veg or even some meats, use it in salads, in crepes with spinach and pine nuts (for the french in you), as a healthy alternative in lasagne (veg lasagne for example), you can make little fritters out of the stuff as well and I've seen it in bread recipes before, but never tried that...

 

[bwana]

spinach and ricotta canneloni:

Fry some spinach in butter. Half way through add some ricotta / feta cheese. I like ricotta better. Stir it for a while (the cheese wont melt alot). Take out of pot and let it cool a bit.
Take caneloni tubes, and stuff it with the spinach filling.
Place in a greased oven dish. Pour over some Woolies Low Fat Cheese Sauce, and pop in the oven for about 30 - 45 min on 180, or till done. Sprinkle parmesan cheese over.
Its delicious!

If you're going to go through all the effort why chuck that [plastic] sauce over it? There are few things easier to make than a cheese sauce - heck even my missus mastered it.

 

[tco21]

You bought your cheese now you lie in it. Ah, cheese is rotten man.

 

[blunomore]

You bought your cheese now you lie in it. Ah, cheese is rotten man.

You're telling me !

 

[Nicci]

If you're going to go through all the effort why chuck that [plastic] sauce over it? There are few things easier to make than a cheese sauce - heck even my missus mastered it.

Well, all my cheese sauce seems to always flop, hence I buy the Woolworths Cheese Sauce. It doesnt taste plastic, and is very tasty. Thats my take on it though

 

[DJ...]

Well, all my cheese sauce seems to always flop, hence I buy the Woolworths Cheese Sauce. It doesnt taste plastic, and is very tasty. Thats my take on it though

Your palate is...um...rather under-developed if you believe Woolies to be the pinnacle of cheese sauce...

How do you make your cheese sauce? There are a few tricks to making it depending on what methods you use. I like the traditional bechamel base. In which case you need to learn to cook the flour taste out of the roux without burning it, keep stirring once you start adding the milk, use a small whisk to avoid lumps, add the milk slowly at first, do not let the bechamel boil once you've started adding cheese (or it separates and goes grainy) but most of all, it's practice and getting your flour-butter quantities correct. The sauce should have a sheen to it and that depends on the ratio of flour-butter-milk.

It really is such a simple sauce to make and you can infuse the milk with any number of different flavours to "spice it up". Tastes a heck of a lot better than the store-bought crap, or the dry packet abomination...