Ravioliwithawildmushroomcreamyalfredosauce Recipes

ANGEL'S RAVIOLI ALFREDO WITH MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add ravioli and cook for 5 to 8 minutes or until al dente; drain.
• Heat the butter in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in the mushrooms and garlic, and cook until tender.
• In a medium saucepan over low heat, toss the cooked ravioli with the Alfredo sauce to coat. Mix in the mushrooms and garlic. Cook and stir until sauce is heated. Top with Parmesan cheese, green onion, and red pepper to serve.

RAVIOLI (DOUGH AND CHOICE OF 4 FILLINGS)

Steps:

• MAKING THE FILLING: Ricotta Filling#1: In a large bowl, blend all filling ingredients together until smooth, set aside filling until needed.
• Ricotta Filling#2: In a large bowl, blend all filling ingredients together until smooth, set aside filling until needed.
• Beef and Spinach Filling: Brown beef and veal in butter with the whole clove of garlic.
• Remove garlic and let meat mixture cool.
• Mix spinach, parsley, eggs, cheese and nutmeg into cooled meat until well blended, set aside filling until needed.
• Sausage Filling: Brown sausage in frying pan, drain fat and allow sausage to cool.
• When sausage has cooled, mix in eggs and cheese, set aside filling until needed.
• MAKING THE RAVIOLI DOUGH: Sift flour and salt together.
• Place flour mixture on a board, making a well in the center of the flour.
• Drop eggs into the flour well, using your hand or a fork, break the yolks and beat eggs slightly.
• Combine the eggs and flour together, gradually adding enough warm water to make a stiff dough.
• Knead dough well, until smooth; cover the dough and let it rest for 15 minutes.
• Cut dough in half and roll each half of the dough out on a floured board, into a very thin sheet (about 1/16 to 1/8 inch thick).
• FILLING THE RAVIOLI: Drop about 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoonfuls of filling about 1 1/2 inches apart all along the dough.
• When the sheet of dough is fully dotted with dabs of filling mixture, cover filling with other sheet of dough.
• Using your fingers, gently press dough between each dab of filling to seal it.
• Cut ravioli into squares with a (zig-zag edged) pastry cutter, or very sharp knife.
• DRYING THE RAVIOLI: Allow ravioli to dry for one hour before cooking.
• COOKING THE RAVIOLI: Drop ravioli into 6 to 8 quarts of boiling, salted water and cook for about 10 to 15 minutes, or until dough is tender.
• Remove cooked ravioli from pot carefully with a skimmer or a large slotted spoon, and drain well.
• Place drained ravioli on a serving platter in layers, alternating layers with your favorite sauce and a sprinkling of grated cheese between each ravioli layer.
• Serve hot.

RAVIOLI WITH A WILD MUSHROOM CREAMY ALFREDO SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet and cook until golden.
• Add mushrooms; cover the pan and cook the mushrooms for 5-10 minutes or until the juices are released.
• Add the shallots and garlic; saute for 5 more minutes.
• Add the tarragon and white wine (I used Sutter Home Chardonnay); simmer for 5 minutes.
• Pour in the heavy cream; cook and stir on medium heat until the sauce begins to thicken.
• When the sauce begins to thicken, add in the alfredo sauce and nutmeg.
• Simmer until heated through and then gently stir in the chicken and white pepper.
• Cook for 5 minutes; taste and adjust spices.
• Simmer over low heat while cooking the ravioli.
• Cook the ravioli according to the package directions; drain well and transfer to either a serving dish or you can go ahead and plate the ravioli.
• Pour sauce over the top of the ravioli.
• Garnish with freshly grated parmesan before serving.
• Note: Although we loved the flavor of the added alfredo sauce, if you would like to omit it, the amount of white wine could be increased to 1/2 cup and the heavy cream to 1 1/2 cup.

MUSHROOM RAVIOLI WITH ALFREDO SAUCE

Steps:

• Saute shallot and mushrooms in butter.
• Add garlic, white wine, salt and pepper and reduce for a couple of minutes.
• Cool and add cheeses.
• Pulse a few times in food processer.
• Wet edges of one wonton wrapper.
• Put a spoonful of filling in center and top with another wonton wrapper. If you need alot, make a triangle with one wrapper and you will end up with about 50 ravioli.
• Press edges together, trying not to allow any air to remain inside ravioli. I sometimes cut with a 3" round cookie cutter, or you can leave it square.
• Place on tray sprinkled with corn meal and allow to dry for an hour before dropping in boiling salted water.
• When ravioli floats it is done. Takes about 3 minutes.
• In the meantime, Heat up Alfredo Sauce ingredients until cheese melts. I also add any remaining mushroom filling to sauce.
• Serve and enjoy.

RAVIOLI IN CREAMY TOMATO MUSHROOM SAUCE

Steps:

• In saucepan, heat oil over medium high heat; cook onion, garlic mushrooms, salt and pepper, stirring occasionally, until no liquid remains, about 8 minutes.
• Sprinkle with flour; cook, stirring for 1 minute.
• Stir in milk and tomatoes, breaking up tomatoes with back of spoon; bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer, stirring often untill thickened, about 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile in larg pot of boiling salted water cook ravioli until tender but firm, about 10 minutes.
• Drain and return to pot.
• Add sauce, cheese, basil and parsley; stir untill cheese melts.

BAKED RAVIOLI IN ALFREDO SAUCE WITH MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Grease a 9x13 casserole.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
• Saute onion and mushrooms until tender, seasoning to taste with salt and pepper.
• Add the alfredo sauce to the skillet, mixing well.
• Gently stir in cooked ravioli.
• Pour into the greased casserole.
• Mix the breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese in a small bowl; sprinkle mixture over the pasta.
• Cover and bake for 20 minutes.
• Uncover and bake for 5-8 minutes more until golden brown.
• Make a salad while it's baking and get the garlic bread going-- VOILA-- dinner in a flash!

HOMEMADE RAVIOLI

Steps:

• Measure flour into a large bowl and make a well in the center. Crack eggs into the center. Beat eggs with a fork until blended. Use the fork to gradually draw in flour from the sides, mixing until all the flour is incorporated.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Knead until smooth and elastic, 3 to 4 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap and let rest for at least 20 minutes.
• Mix ricotta, mozzarella, and Parmesan cheeses together in a bowl. Whisk water and egg together in a small bowl to make egg wash.
• Lightly flour the work surface again. Roll out dough into a thin sheet. Cut into hearts using a cookie cutter. Brush edges with egg wash. Spoon filling into the center of 1/2 of the hearts; cover with remaining hearts. Press edges together to seal.
• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add ravioli in batches and wait until they float to the top. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes after that. Transfer to a colander using a slotted spoon. Repeat with remaining ravioli.