Best Manicotti Recipe EVER
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This best ever easy homemade chicken spinach manicotti recipe is baked cheese pasta shells perfection. It's easy to make and loved by everyone!
Ingredients
Instructions
Wring out all the water from the spinach. I usually squeeze out what I can by hand, then roll it in a paper towel and wring it tightly until it stops leaking water. After doing this, the spinach will be clumped together. Break it up before adding it in.
Combine all of the cheeses, eggs, spinach, shredded chicken and spices into a large bowl and mix well with a spatula.
Place the mixture in a gallon size Ziploc bag and snip a corner off. I've found that around a 1/2" diameter hole works well for me.
Pour 2 cups marinara sauce at the bottom of a 9x13 or equivalent sized pan.
Place the hole inside one end of the uncooked manicotti pasta shell and fill with the cheese mixture to the end. If it didn't fill the other end, flip it around and fill the other side. There is plenty of filling, so don't be scant!
Place the manicotti into the pan and repeat until all the manicotti pasta shells are full.
Top with an additional 2 1/2 cups marinara sauce.
Top with mozzarella and parmesan to taste (we like ours cheesy).
Cover the pan with aluminum foil. Bake at 350 covered for 45 minutes, then 15 minutes uncovered or until cheese reaches desired doneness.
Nutrition
- Serving Size
- 1.5 manicotti
- Calories
- 349 kcal
- Sugar Content
- 6 g
- Sodium Content
- 1183 mg
- Fat Content
- 12 g
- Saturated Fat Content
- 6 g
- Trans Fat Content
- 0.003 g
- Carbohydrate Content
- 31 g
- Fiber Content
- 4 g
- Protein Content
- 31 g
- Cholesterol Content
- 92 mg
- Unsaturated Fat Content
- 4 g
