Homemade Marinara Cheese Ravioli

I’ve been inwards a saucy mood lately.  You know, inwards the mood to brand sauce!  Since our garden is bursting amongst tomatoes it exclusively made feel to brand a fresh marinara.  This means it’s fourth dimension for unopen to other installment of our ‘garden-to-table’ feature!

I gathered Roma tomatoes for a few days together with ended upwards amongst somewhere betwixt 35 together with twoscore fruits.  I picked unopen to fresh basil, set aside a large onion, fresh garlic, sugar, salt, pepper together with oregano.  At the end I likewise add together unopen to carmine vino together with Lycopersicon esculentum glue (not pictured).

Bring a large pot of H2O to a rolling boil.  Add the whole tomatoes together with fix for 1 infinitesimal (parboil a/k/a partially boiled).  Drain inwards a colander together with allow tomatoes to cool for a infinitesimal piece preparing the other ingredients.

Chop the onion, garlic together with fresh basil.

Peel the drained parboiled tomatoes together with discard skins.

Place the peeled tomatoes inwards a blender together with blend until smooth.

Heat 2 tablespoons olive crude oil inwards a large soup pot.  Add the onion together with garlic together with saute until translucent.

Add the blended tomatoes to the pot amongst the onions.

Add the saccharide …

… throw inwards the oregano…

… add together the chopped fresh basil …

… together with the tabular array salt together with pepper.  Stir until combined together with simmer for near 2 hours.  Then add a 6-ounce tin of Lycopersicon esculentum glue together with near 1/2 loving cup carmine vino every bit needed to sparse the sauce.

In weblog world, I jumped correct from making the sauce to making homemade ravioli.  But inwards existent time, I made the sauce the twenty-four hr menses earlier together with refrigerated it until fix to use.  Just pretend it all happened seamlessly 🙂

I did however, genuinely brand homemade ravioli which was a get-go for me.  It was much easier than I idea together with only every bit delicious every bit I hoped.  For the filling y'all volition need salt, pepper, cinnamon, eggs, grated Romano cheese, fresh Italian parsley together with ricotta cheese.

First stir the filling ingredients together.  Mix the ricotta cheese, cinnamon, tabular array salt together with pepper.

Lightly whisk the eggs.

And add together them to the ricotta.

Chop the parsley.

Add the Romano together with mix it all together.  Cover together with refrigerate piece preparing the pasta.

You’ll purpose salt, eggs, warm H2O together with white unbleached flour for the pasta dough.

Sift the flour together with tabular array salt together on a large board or counter top.

Make a good inwards the middle of the flour together with add together the eggs.  Using your hands interruption the yolks together with compaction eggs slightly.  Combine the eggs together with flour together adding plenty warm H2O to brand a rigid dough.

Knead the dough until smooth.  Cover the dough together with allow it residue for fifteen minutes.

Cut the dough inwards one-half together with curlicue out 1 slice on a floured surface until sparse every bit possible.

Drop spoonfuls of the ricotta mixture near 1 to 1 1/2 inches apart all over the rolled out dough.

Roll out the other one-half of the dough together with encompass the other canvas amongst the ricotta dollops.

Using your fingers, gently press the dough betwixt each dab of filling to seal.  Cut ravioli into squares amongst a zig-zag pastry cutter or abrupt knife.  Allow the ravioli to dry out for 1 hr earlier cooking.

Drop ravioli into a large pot of boiling salted H2O together with fix for near 10-15 minutes or until dough is tender.

Remove cooked ravioli from pot amongst a slotted spoon together with drain well.

Serve ravioli amongst your favorite sauce or this delicious homemade marinara!

Sprinkle amongst freshly grated Parmesan cheese earlier serving.

Something near making it totally from scratch is magical.  I appreciate every unmarried seize amongst teeth together with am amazed that it genuinely tastes great!  Go figure 🙂

Homemade Marinara Sauce

35-40 fresh Roma tomatoes

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 tablespoon fresh basil

1 tablespoon oregano

1/4 loving cup sugar

4 garlic cloves, minced

1 medium onion, chopped

salt

fresh the world pepper

1 6-ounce tin Lycopersicon esculentum paste

1/2 loving cup dry out carmine wine

Parboil or blanch together with peel the tomatoes.  Mix the tomatoes inwards a blender until pureed.  Set aside.  In a large sauce pot estrus the olive oil.  Add the onion together with garlic together with saute until limp.  Add the Lycopersicon esculentum puree, basil, oregano, sugar, tabular array salt together with pepper.  Simmer uncovered for near 2 hours.  Add the Lycopersicon esculentum glue together with vino together with stir until good blended.  Bring to a simmer together with serve amongst your favorite pasta or freeze for afterward use.

Homemade Ravioli

(adapted from a recipe on food.com)

Filling:

1 lb. ricotta cheese (drained if needed)

2 eggs

1/4 loving cup freshly grated Romano cheese

2 tablespoons fresh Italian apartment left parsley, minced

1/8 teaspoon cinnamon

salt together with pepper

Mix together all filling ingredients, encompass together with refrigerate piece preparing the pasta dough.

Dough:

3 cups unbleached white flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

1/2 loving cup warm water

Sift the flour together with tabular array salt together.  Place flour mixture on a board or counter top, making a good inwards the middle of the flour.  Add the eggs to the flour good together with using your hands, compaction eggs slightly.  Combine the eggs together with flour together.  Gradually add together plenty warm H2O to brand a rigid dough.  Knead dough until smooth.  Cover together with allow the dough residue for fifteen minutes.

Cut the dough inwards one-half together with curlicue each one-half on a floured board until really thin.  Drop teaspoonfuls of filling near 1 1/2 inches apart all over the rolled dough.  Place the other one-half of the rolled dough over the dabs of filling mixtures.  Using your fingers, gently press betwixt each dab of filling to seal.  Cut ravioli into squares amongst a zig-zag pastry cutter or a really abrupt knife.  Allow the ravioli to dry out 1 hr earlier cooking.  Drop ravioli into boiling salted H2O together with fix for near 10-15 minutes.  I cooked mine inwards 3 batches together with then the ravioli was non over crowded.  Remove cooked ravioli from the pot carefully amongst a large slotted spoon together with drain well.  Serve amongst your favorite sauce together with sprinkle amongst freshly grated Parmesan or Romano cheese.

Now wasn’t that fun!

I remember I would similar to become a pasta attachment for my novel Kitchen Aid Mixer.  Cooking is a creative blast!  Hope y'all bring unopen to fun inwards the kitchen this week.

Thanks together with then much for stopping by!

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com