With National Vegetarian Week coming up from 19-25 May, Betta Living have challenged bloggers to create a delicious vegetarian #BettaRecipe for their competition.
Mine is a variant on a family favourite recipe in our household. I usually make it with spinach, but Swiss Chard is a fairly similar vegetable, but more unusual.
Ingredients (serves 2 adults and 2 children)
150g Swiss chard leaves
14 cannelloni tubes
500g cottage cheese
40g plain flour
40g margarine
600ml milk
150g cheese
Salt and pepper
Method
Chop the chard into small pieces.
Use a food processor to finely chop the chard.
Mix chard and cottage cheese together.
Fill the cannelloni tubes and place in an ovenproof dish.
Melt the margarine in a saucepan.
Stir in the flour.
Gradually stir in the milk, allowing to thicken.
Grate the cheese, reserve a little and stir the rest into the sauce.
Season with salt and pepper.
Pour the sauce over the cannelloni.
Sprinkle the reserved cheese over the top.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 deg for 40 minutes.
Serve and enjoy.
Swiss chard and cottage cheese cannelloni
Disclosure. This is my entry to the Betta Living Vegetarian Recipe competition.
Yet another blogging mummy!!! 
Lovely recipe
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Thank you. I’ve got some chard growing in the garden this season, so will need to find a few more recipes using it
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Sounds a delight – one to try out
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I usually do this with spinach as I always have frozen spinach in my freezer, but it was great with the Swiss Chard too
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One of my friends adores Swiss Chard, but I’ve never got round to trying it. I love spinach and cheese cannelloni, this looks like a gorgeous variation!
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certainly worth trying to see what you think
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Love this vegetarian recipe, good luck with the competition. #TastyTuesdays
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Thank you 🙂
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Looks so good. I also love swiss chard, we seem to get it in our veg box every week at the moment so very glad to have a new recipe to try. #recipeoftheweek
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Thank you. My Green pancakes use swiss chard too https://blogmumjd.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/green-pancakes/
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They look great too!
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I should stop commenting on #TastyTuesday early in the morning pre-brekfast cuz now my tummy is grumbling. This is so lush and yummy looking!
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yummy but not for breakfast!
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Oh wow that looks utterly delicious, well done you! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
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Thank you. This is a favourite for all our family – kids and adults
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A lovely way to use Swiss chard and it looks really tasty
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Thank you Alison. I’ve kept my eye out for swiss chard in the shops after I first tried it when we both did the #lunchlessordinary challenge
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I never think to make my own cannelloni but this is really tempting me to try it, I do love green veg mixed with pasta, so this looks like one to try!
#Recipeoftheweek
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thank you. and i find that my kids eat greens this way, an extra bonus
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Oh, I love Swiss Chard! This is a lovely way to use it… I’d been thinking about making manicotti, actually, and this would be a good filling for that.
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Thank you.I haven’t ever tried making my own pasta, but yes I’m sure it would be a great filling for you
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I’ve never eaten Swiss Chard. Not sure if I’ve even seen it on sale in our shops but I love spinach so will keep an eye out for it. Thanks for the recipe.
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I first tried it via winning 6 fruit & veg boxes from Abel & Cole, which introduced me to a few new veggies, but have subsequently found it in Waitrose
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