Well,
a really good dinner of ravioli and an entire free day the day ahead kind of pushed me into thinking...maybe..i can make ravioli at home.Im not a great cook, well not even a regular cook I should say, just make the odd unnecessary but fatty side snacks...sometimes...Happened to watch the cookery show, and guess what were they cooking? No prizes for guessing...so ravioli it shall be tommorrow.
The next afternoon , i made the dough , amused cook staring at me so serious in his domain.
let it rest, let it rise,rolled it out...made the stuffing on the side ,put the stuffing, cut it cooked it and then cooked the curry...phew! This has been a few weeks ago, and now typing it down, seems like i really did do a LOT of hard work!!!
Was I happy? well , had to have some bread, so i made some garlic BUNs to go with it,
Then...there had to be dessert, so I tried baking a "low" fat cake ( to shrug off the guilt of all the cheese and butter) .The cake flopped! miserable it was, though the husband did try to say, its just too much food, cant possibly have anymore!
Well, how did it go?
The ravioli was really good , the husband said. The down side was that it was chewy. See,im not great at rolling out the dough thin. Plus, i made the dough with plain APF(I used maida).
Doing some research later, it turned out that Were supposed to use semolina(rawa) in it
The stuffing , the sauce were nice and creamy.
Home cooked Spring onion & cottage cheese Ravioli with garlic buns
Ravioli
Maida ( 200gms/)
Ravioli stuffing
Cottage cheese (paneer) 2oogms
Onion 1 medium
Spinach 2 or3 chopped fine
cheese grated 2spoons
Sauce
Grated brocolli 1/2 bowl
spring onions sliced 4-5
red chillies sliced 3-4
milk 1glass
oregano 2tsp
italian seasoning as needed
Ravioli stuffing.
In a non stic pan, put the butter,spinach and cook for a minute or two.Add the paneer, the grated cheese & salt to taste.Take it off the stove.
Ravioli
Roll the dough out,as thin as possible.Decide the shape of your ravioli and cut with cookie cutter. .Place some filling on one,leaving a periphery for sealing it.Wet the periphery with water & place another piece of cut dough on it.
To cook the ravioli, take a pan, boil water in it, when it boils, dip the ravioli for a minn or 2 till it floats to the surface. Take it out, drain it on a tissue
Sauce.
Put 2 tbsp butter.When heated , add the spring onion. Fry for sometime and add the brocolli. Add the red chillies .Cook for a while. Add the bay leaves. Pour a glass or 11/2 of milk . Add some cream if you lack any self restraint. Add seasoning as per taste(the red chillies were spicy) .Grate some cheese ( or a lot of it) .
To serve.:
Place the ravioli in the serving plate and pour sauce over it. Serve Hot.
