Who doesn't love a bit of cannelloni? Or a lot...

THIS is another Olive recipe and it works a treat- cannelloni with spicy sausage and spinach. Tom and I cooked it together and it is really easy to make.

You need:

The finished product

Six herby sausages, with the skin removed

1 tsp fennel seeds

A pinch of chilli flakes

300g chopped spinach

2 cloves garlic, finely sliced

Plum tomatoes, 2 x 400g tins

1 tsp sugar

250g cannelloni tubes

250g half-fat crème fraiche

50g cheddar cheese

50s parmesan

Heat 1 tbsp of olive oil and then pinch off the sausage into the pan and cook until browned and just cooked through. Add fennel, chilli and salt and pepper and cook for a minute. The fennel gives a really nice flavour to the sausage and it’s not too overpowering. Add the spinach and cook until it’s wilted and take off the heat.

Meanwhile in another pan, Tom cooked the garlic for a few minutes, added the tomatoes and the sugar and simmered for about 15minutes. Stir a third of the sauce into the sausages. Heat the oven to 190c/fan 170c and gas 5.

Then here comes the tricky bit- stuff the cannelloni tubes with the steaming hot sausage goodness! Use a teaspoon to make it easier.

Lay them in a dish then pour over the crème fraiche which has the cheddar cheese mixed in. Sprinkle with parmesan and cook for about 30 minutes.

The result: a bubbling feast of sausage goodness. Makes me hungry thinking about it.

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