Low Fat Manicotti - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. fresh ground lean turkey
1 box frozen spinach
3 green onions, chopped along with greens
1 stalk celery, chopped fine
2 Tbsp. fresh chopped parsley
1 tsp. marjoram
10 manicotti tubes
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 cake tofu
3 cloves crushed garlic
1/2 c. green, yellow or red bell pepper, chopped fine
1 Tbsp. sweet basil
1/2 Tbsp. oregano
dry red wine such as Burgundy

Preparation

Heat a frying pan.
Add the olive oil, onions, garlic, celery and peppers.
Saute until the whites of the onions turn clear.
Add ground turkey.
Cook until the turkey is done.
Drain well.
Add approximately 1/3 cup of the wine into the pan.
Simmer until the wine is reduced by half.
Drain well again.
The wine will cut the olive oil and some of the fat of the turkey and add taste.
Mix meat mixture with thawed and drained spinach.
Put tofu in a blender and blend until smooth.
Stir into mixture.
Stir in rest of the ingredients.
Preheat oven to 350\u00b0.
Stuff manicotti tubes with the mixture.
Place stuffed tubes in a glass roasting dish. Pour fat free commercial (Healthy Choice is good) or homemade spaghetti sauce.
It must cover the tubes.
Bake covered for 1 hour.
Serve tubes with low-fat grated Romano cheese.