Vegetable meat cannelloni recipe

Cannelloni are a type of hollow pasta that is traditionally filled with ground meat and baked with tomato sauce, béchamel sauce, and cheese. As you can see in my recipes, I love to make traditional dishes vegan without ingredients of animal origin and to fill these vegetarian cannelloni I have prepared delicious “ground meat” based on mushrooms and vegetables (carrot, onion and broccoli). The homemade vegan cheese that I use in these vegetable meat cannelloni is very easy to make and you can find the recipe. In this recipe I have not used the vegan béchamel sauce, but you can easily prepare it with soy or oat milk.

Ingredients to make vegetable meat cannelloni:

• 400 grams of mushrooms
• 1 large onion
• 2 carrots
• 2 garlic cloves
• 5 broccoli stems
• 1 pinch of salt
• 2 tablespoons of oil
• 1 package of precooked cannelloni pasta
• 1 cup of crushed tomato or tomato sauce
• ½ cup grated cheese (I used vegan mozzarella-style cheese)

How to make vegetable meat cannelloni:

1. Peel the carrot, garlic and onion and cut all the vegetables into medium pieces.
2. Put the mushrooms, carrot, onion, garlic and broccoli in the blender or food processor and blend all the vegetables until a very fine and homogeneous mass is formed.
3. Heat the pan with oil and sauté the mashed vegetables until ready.
4. Fill the pasta of the vegan vegetable cannelloni with the “ground meat” of mushrooms.
5. Tip: If you use pasta that needs to be cooked beforehand, follow the instructions on the package before filling it.
6. Place the easy vegetarian cannelloni on a baking tray, cover them well with the tomato sauce and grated vegan cheese. Preheat the oven to 180 °C and bake the cannelloni for 20 minutes.
7. When the vegetable meat cannelloni are ready, divide them into portions and serve.