Besides Lasagna, what meals can i use ricotta cheese in?!
Answers: I have a full container of ricotta cheese left over from lasagna i made last week, i want to use it! What are some easy receipes that include ricotta cheese, please help!
STUFFED MANACOTTI
1 pkg. manacotti (14)
1 (10 oz.) pkg. frozen spinach (cooked and drained)
1 (16 oz.) Ricotta cheese
1 egg, beaten
1/3 c. chopped onion
Garlic powder and other seasonings to taste
2 (15 oz.) jars spaghetti sauce
Parmesan cheese
Combine spinach, Ricotta cheese, egg, onion and seasonings until smooth. Pour 1/4 to 1/2 inch sauce in bottom of 13 x 9 inch pan. Stuff mixture in uncooked noodle and place in pan. Cover with foil ensuring that pan is sealed all the way around. Cook at 400 degrees for 50 minutes. Uncover, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and cook uncovered 10 minutes.
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This calls for cottage cheese, but I think ricotta and cottage cheese are similar enough to substitute...
FINNISH CURD CAKE
Yield: 8 servings
Crust
2 TBSP butter; *
2/3 cup bread crumbs; dry **
Cake
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup unbleached flour; Sifted
1 cup cottage cheese
2 large eggs
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground cardamom
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp grated orange rind
1 tsp grated lemon rind
1/2 cup melted butter *
* Use Sweet Cream Butter In this recipe.
** Note: This recipe can vary depending on the type of pan you use.
Butter the baking dish, pie pan, or springform pan until generously coated. Sprinkle the
crumbs as needed into the pan, then turn the pan around and shake gently, distributing the crumbs along the sides as well. The crumbs should completely coat the inside of the pan.
Chill briefly to set the crumbs and then fill with the desired filling.
CAKE:
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Sift together the flour and baking powder and set aside. Press the cottage cheese through a sieve. In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs and the sugar until they are frothy. Add the spices and fruit rinds. Add the cottage cheese and blend all the ingredients well.
Stir in the butter, then add the dry mixture, mixing well. Pour the mixture into the prepared crust and bake for 1 hour.
NOTE: Again this is more like a quick bread, and you can increase the sugar if you
like as this is not particularly sweet.
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Ricotta Cake Easy Recipe
Ingredients
* 1 pkg. Duncan Hines Lemon Supreme cake mix
* 4 eggs
* 2 lbs. ricotta cheese
* 1 tsp. lemon juice
* 1 tsp. pure vanilla
* 3/4 cup sugar
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 325°.
2. Prepare cake mix as instructed on package and pour into a 9" x 11" greased pan.
3. In a medium bowl, mix together eggs, ricotta cheese, lemon juice, vanilla and sugar.
4. Gently pour over cake mix.
5. Bake for 1 1/2 hours.
6. Refrigerate when cool. Sprinkle with confectioners sugar before serving.
ricotta is very versitile, you can either have it savory or sweet....
savory dishes usually require adding a bit of garlic, italian seasoning, an egg or 2, and stuffing some type of pasta, you can use lasanga, stuffed shells, manicotta, rollitini..
you can add spinach and make florentine stuffed beef roasts and chicken breasts...
or you can go sweet, and add sugar and a bit of marscapone and some almond extract and make your own cannolis (best dessert ever)
you can make ricotta cheese gnocchi.
http://www.slashfood.com/2006/03/18/make...
Ricotta Pie, Baked Ziti, Cannoli, Tortellini, Ravioli, Ricotta Cookies, Ricotta Spaetzle......
eggplant rolatini. I also love eating it with cut up bananas in it. YUM!!