Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork

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Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork is irresistible homemade fusion of Italian and American cuisine, loaded with parmesan, mozzarella, and ricotta cheese. Pulled pork gives great American kick, and it’s all cooked in tomato sauce to have delicious main dish.

Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork is irresistible homemade fusion of Italian and American cuisine, loaded with parmesan, mozzarella, and ricotta cheese. Pulled pork gives great American kick, and it’s all cooked in tomato sauce to have delicious main dish.


 

Dear friends, do you know what is Italian manicotti?

Manicotti is classic Italian dish made with thin crepes or tube-shaped pasta stuffed with a mixture of three cheeses (Parmesan, Mozzarella, Ricotta), your favourite meat or vegetables and herbs. Stuffed crepes or pasta shells are nestled in and topped with homemade pasta sauce  and covered with even more mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese on top to create comfort food Italian way!

We prefer this homemade manicotti with crepes instead of pasta tubes since manicotti crepes are savoury version of French crepe made from scratch so delicious to implement !

Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork is irresistible homemade fusion of Italian and American cuisine, loaded with parmesan, mozzarella, and ricotta cheese. Pulled pork gives great American kick, and it’s all cooked in tomato sauce to have delicious main dish.

 

What do crepes taste like?

They are made with the less sugar, resulting in less of a sweet taste and of more of a subtle egg flavor. That’s one of the greatest things about crepes! Since they’re not abundantly sweet, they are often served both sweet or savory.

To make manicotti crepes you need savory version. Sweet ones are usually stuffed with jams or any other spread you prefer.

 

Why are crepes so special?

Nutritious and Filling

Although the overall nutrition varies according to the ingredients, savoury crepes, are considered to be a healthy choice. They have fewer calories, fats, carbohydrates and more proteins as compared to other foods such as pancakes and waffles.

For more, read here .

Before I get into manicotti ( meaning “ little sleeves” in Italian ), let me note some basic differences between crepe, wrap and thin pancake. Here they are:

 

What is the difference between a crepe and a wrap ?

Crepes are soft, moist and very delicate to handle and made out of liquid mixture. My grandmother tought me of a little trick to upgrade cerepes to be softer and fluffier: a bit of sparkling water is secret ingredient. It also prevets crepes from sticking to the pan. Wraps, on the other hand, are made out of knead dough.

What are the differences between a crepe and a thin pancake?

The main difference is that pancake batter has a raising agent in it, such as baking powder or baking soda, and crepe batter does not. This means that pancakes are thicker and fluffy while crêpes are thin and flat.

 

Here you can see how the filling is laid on the crepes:

Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork is irresistible homemade fusion of Italian and American cuisine, loaded with parmesan, mozzarella, and ricotta cheese. Pulled pork gives great American kick, and it’s all cooked in tomato sauce to have delicious main dish.

 

If you make manicotti crepes with quantities mentioned below, it gives two dishes (10 x 8 inches)

Once you start laying manicotti rolls to the pan, here is the photo for you to see how to lay rolled crepes into the pan:

Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork is irresistible homemade fusion of Italian and American cuisine, loaded with parmesan, mozzarella, and ricotta cheese. Pulled pork gives great American kick, and it’s all cooked in tomato sauce to have delicious main dish.

Before you put the pan into the oven, here is how the dish looks like before baking:

Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork is irresistible homemade fusion of Italian and American cuisine, loaded with parmesan, mozzarella, and ricotta cheese. Pulled pork gives great American kick, and it’s all cooked in tomato sauce to have delicious main dish.

 

Before you scroll to the recipe, here are some freezing tips :

 

Do you freeze manicotti before or after cooking?

To further extend the shelf life of cooked manicotti, freeze it; freeze in covered airtight containers or heavy-duty freezer bags. Cooked manicotti dishes containing sauce freeze best; cooked dry manicotti may become overly mushy when thawed.

 

How to freeze baked manicotti, please look here    .

Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork is irresistible homemade fusion of Italian and American cuisine, loaded with parmesan, mozzarella, and ricotta cheese. Pulled pork gives great American kick, and it’s all cooked in tomato sauce to have delicious main dish.

 

If you plan to make manicotti and would use your time the best way possible, you may cook the crepes the first day and finish wrapping them the other day ( I made my batch of crepes on Friday evening and finished them to have Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork for lunch on Saturday.

 

Here you can see the way crepes look like just after the last one was added to the plate:

Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork is irresistible homemade fusion of Italian and American cuisine, loaded with parmesan, mozzarella, and ricotta cheese. Pulled pork gives great American kick, and it’s all cooked in tomato sauce to have delicious main dish.

 

 

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Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork

Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork is irresistible homemade fusion of Italian and American cuisine, loaded with parmesan, mozzarella, and ricotta cheese. Pulled pork gives great American kick, and it’s all cooked in tomato sauce to have delicious main dish.

Course dinner, lunch
Cuisine American, Italian
Keyword Manicotti Crepes with Pulled Pork
Servings 6

Ingredients

  • Ingredients for 13 crepes ( ø 9 inches ):
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 cup milk (2.8 % fat )
  • 2 cups mineral / sparkling water
  • Butter or sunflower oil for the skillet
  • Ingredients for manicotti filling:
  • 1 cup Ricotta cheese
  • 6 Tbsp Parmesan cheese
  • basil leaves, chopped, to taste
  • 3 ½ cup pulled pork
  • pulled pork dripping to taste
  • 2 ½ cup tomato sauce (Passata)
  • 2 Mozzarella cheese balls, sliced ( 1 ½ cup )
  • Heavy cream to taste
  • Basil leaves to garnish

Instructions

  1. Combine all the crepes ingredients in large bowl and mix well.

  2. Heat 9 inches nonstick skillet over medium heat. Lightly coat with butter / oil.
  3. Add approx. 1/4 cup of batter and swirl to cover bottom of skillet completely. Cook until underside of crepe is golden brown ( 2 mins).
  4. Loosen edge of crepe with a rubber spatula and quickly flip using fingers or spatula.
  5. Cook 1 minute and slide crepe out of skillet to the plate and repeat until you get 13 crepes.
  6. Coat skillet with butter / oil when needed.
  7. Leave aside to rest while you prepare manicotti ingredients.
  8. Spread 4 Tbsp of tomato sauce to the bottom of baking dish (10 x 8 inches )

  9. Preheat the oven to 180 C / 356 F.
  10. In a small bowl, combine Ricotta and Parmesan.
  11. Spread ½ Tbsp of Ricotta / Parmesan mix on one crepe and add 2 Tbsp of pulled pork and 1 Tbsp dripping.

  12. Garnish with basil leaves to taste.
  13. Roll the crepe and lay in the dish coated with tomato sauce.

  14. Repeat until one dish filled.
  15. Spread the half of remaining tomato sauce over the crepes, garnish with mozzarella, heavy cream to taste, cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes.

  16. While first dish is baking, prepare the second one for the freezer, repeating the steps 8. – 13.

 

 

 

 

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