Nat's Chicken and Broccoli Cannelloni

Submitted by Nat Da Brat

"Yummy, comforting food at its best!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 20mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• Tomato Cream Sauce

• 78.78 ml butter
• 78.78 ml flour
• 709.77 ml milk
• 793.78 g can plum tomatoes (chopped)
• salt and pepper

• Filling

• 44.37 ml butter
• 1 large onion (chopped)
• 226.79 g fresh mushrooms (sliced)
• 354.88 ml cooked chicken
• 354.88 ml cooked broccoli
• 236.59 ml grated parmesan cheese
• 12 cannelloni tubes
• salt and pepper

directions

1. Tomato Cream Sauce:

2. Melt butter in saucepan.
3. Whisk in flour.
4. Cook 2-3 minutes, stirring, but not browning.
5. Whisk in milk, bring to a boil, reduce heat.
6. Simmer gently for 5 minutes.
7. Whisk in tomatoes, salt and pepper.
8. Simmer gently for 5 minutes.

9. Filling:

10. Melt butter in a skillet.
11. Cook onions until tender, add mushrooms and cook until moisture evaporates.
12. Add chicken and broccoli.
13. Add 1/2 of cheese, salt and pepper.
14. Stir in 1 cup of tomato cream sauce.
15. Fill Cannelloni with chicken mixture.
16. Arrange in bottom of 9 X 13 buttered baking dish.
17. Pour remaining Tomato Cream Sauce, on top of cannelloni.
18. Top with remaining cheese.
19. Bake uncovered in a preheated 350°F oven, for 30 to 40 minutes, until bubbling.