Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Recipe # 10

This was a pretty tedious recipe but it was great to do while watching football games that I wasn't really interested in.  There are a variety of steps to this in order to get the final product: Make the squash, create the raviolis, boil the raviolis, sauté the raviolis, make the sauce, place raviolis on the plate, pour the sauce over raviolis, enjoy! 

*I did find all of the recipes online but changed them according to what I had in our kitchen.


Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli with a Sage Mushroom Cream Sauce


Roasted Butternut Squash 

Ingredients
1 medium butternut squash, halved lengthwise and seeded
2 teaspoons butter
 2 teaspoons brown sugar
Salt and pepper

Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Place butternut squash halves on a large baking sheet flesh side up. Place 1 teaspoon butter in the middle of each squash. Sprinkle brown sugar over each squash. Season with salt and black pepper. Roast 25 minutes, until flesh is fork-tender. Reserve 2 halves for future meal.
By following this recipe you should produce 4 cups of mashed butternut squash

Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli


(This was only 1 of 3 batches that I made with all of the squash ravioli filling)


Ingredients
4 cup mashed, cooked butternut squash
2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 cup mascarpone cheese
4 egg yolk
1 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
3 (16 ounce) package round wonton wrappers (or whichever wonton wrappers you can find...I found square wonton wrappers at the Walmart produce section
4 tablespoons butter or margarine 
4 tablespoons minced garlic

Directions


Place cooked squash into a mixing bowl. Add salt and black pepper. Stir in mascarpone cheese, egg yolks, and Parmesan cheese, mixing until the filling is smoothly combined.

Place a wonton wrapper onto a working surface. Wet the tip of a finger in water, and run it all along the outer edge of the wonton skin to moisten.

Place about 1 teaspoon of filling in the center of the wonton. Place another wonton wrapper with moistened edges over filling and other wonton and, with a fork, press the edges to seal. Repeat with the remaining wonton wrappers.
Place a deep skillet over medium-low heat. Stir in butter and unpeeled clove of garlic. Meanwhile, bring a saucepan of lightly salted water to a boil.
Drop the filled raviolis into the boiling water, a few at a time, and cook until they float to the top, about 2 minutes. Drain the raviolis, and transfer them to the skillet. Turn the heat under the skillet up to medium-high, and cook just until the raviolis are infused with garlic flavor, about 2 or 3 more minutes.


Sage Mushroom Shrimp Cream Sauce

Ingredients*
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 whopping Tbsp minced garlic
1/2 cup chopped red onion
1 package thawed, raw shrimp (We did medium, you can use whatever size your heart desires)

2 Tablespoon butter or margarine
3/4 cup red onion, chopped
3/4 cup dry white wine or chicken broth (I did both!)
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 tsp Ground Sage
Sea Salt and Cracked Black Pepper
1/2 package of mixed mushroom, sliced

Directions

Place the garlic, olive oil, and onions in the pan and brown.  Once the onions become 'clear'ish place the shrimp in the pan and saute until the shrimp is cooked through.


In a large sauté pan, melt the 2 tablespoons of butter. Add the onion to the butter or margarine and continue to cook for another 3 minutes. Add the cream, chicken broth and/or wine, sage, salt, pepper, mushrooms, and shrimp. Lower the heat to a simmer and reduce the sauce by half. 


*I doubled the recipe for us.  Since the sauce gets reduced I couldn't stand to not have enough ;)*

**The sauce separates with the butter and cream so serving it directly after it is done reducing may be the best idea**



We really enjoyed this! Next time we have this, though, I think I will make it for a date night.  Our toddlers are at a stage where they are very picky with textures so they didn't want anything to do with this lovely meal.