Corned beef cannelloni: Delicious winter warmer. Image: Adobe.

Corned beef cannelloni: Home cooking in the best way possible

Name: Corned beef cannelloni recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 1 tin bully beef (corned beef); 10 ready-made pancakes; 1-2 green peppers; 2 large onions; sunflower oil; 1 cup flour; 2 ml salt; 2 extra large eggs, beaten; 150 ml water; 200 ml milk; 4 tbsp butter; 4 tbsp flour; 2 cups milk; salt; white or black pepper; 1 cup grated cheese; 1 tsp mustard; parsley to sprinkle; 2 tbsp cream (optional for a richer sauce)

You won’t believe how many different dishes you can make after you’ve tried this corned beef and cannelloni recipe first.

by Irene Muller

13-09-2023 11:23

in Recipes

Corned beef cannelloni: Delicious winter warmer. Image: Adobe.

Cooking is about being creative and providing yourself, family and friends with flavours and textures that will make them happy as well as feed their bodies. Italy has some of the best foods like cannelloni which is filled pasta topped with sauce and cheese, similar to lasagne. However, that’s only the start because this corned beef cannelloni recipe is going to change how you cook for your family. It’s also a blueprint for some incredible dishes in your future.

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Corned beef cannelloni suggestions

This version of cannelloni uses pancakes, also known as crêpes, which are softer and more people in South Africa have an easy recipe for the batter. Even though this recipe uses a corned beef sauce for the filling, you can also use your own tomato pasta sauce or bolognaise sauce, and even mince curry recipe. The cheesy and creamy bechamel or white sauce just adds more richness and decadence before topping it with and grilling the extra cheese to golden perfection.

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You won’t believe how many different dishes you can make after you’ve tried this corned beef and cannelloni recipe first.

Last updated on 13 September 2023

Corned beef cannelloni recipe

5 from 2 votes

Recipe by Irene Muller Course: MainCuisine: GlobalDifficulty: Easy

Servings

servings

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

minutes

Total time

minutes

Ingredients

1 tin 1 bully beef (corned beef)
10 10 ready-made pancakes
1-2 1-2 green peppers
2 large 2 onions
sunflower oil
Basic pancakes
1 cup 1 flour
2 ml 2 salt
2 extra large 2 eggs, beaten
150 ml 150 water
200 ml 200 milk
White sauce/bechamel
4 tbsp 4 butter
4 tbsp 4 flour
2 cups 2 milk
salt
white or black pepper
1 cup 1 grated cheese
1 tsp 1 mustard
parsley to sprinkle
2 tbsp 2 cream (optional for a richer sauce)

Method

Pancakes
Mix all the pancake ingredients together, and then place it in the fridge for 15 – 20 minutes.
Pour a little oil into a pan. If you think the oil is hot, add a little bit of dough to test. If it is hot enough, it will begin to bake in the oil.
Add enough batter into the pan so that the bottom is completely covered, but try to keep the pancake as thin as possible.
When the pancake on the top does not look moist (after about 2 – 3 minutes) try the bottom of the pancake with an egg lifter. If it does not want to come loose, leave it for a minute and then try again. Use an egg lifter to turn the pancake, it’s the easiest.
Corned beef
Chop the onions and green pepper.
Fry in a frying pan until the onions are caramelised.
Open the bully beef tin, chop it into small pieces and add to the fried onions and mix well.
White sauce/bechamel
Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat; stir in flour. Stir and cook for about 2 minutes. Do not brown.
Gradually stir in the milk and continue cooking over low heat, stirring constantly, until the sauce begins to thicken.
Season with salt, pepper, cheese and mustard.
Cannelloni
Fill each pancake with the onion and bully beef mixture.
Roll and place in an oven dish.
Pour over the white sauce.
Garnish with cheese and parsley.
Place in a hot oven until golden brown and serve with your favourite salad.