Recipe - Cheese And Chive Ravioli With Tomato Red Pepper Sauce

FOR THE SAUCE
1 cn (28 ounces) plum tomatoes
1 lg Red bell pepper; chopped
coarse
2 lg Garlic cloves
2 Onions; chopped coarse
One half cup Chicken stock

FOR THE FILLING
Three fourths cup Freshly grated parmesan
4 ounce Mozzarella; grated coarse
One half cup Ricotta
2 tablespoon Snipped fresh chives
1 pound Food processor pasta dough
1 1inch thick chives

ACCOMPANIMENT
Freshly grated parmesan

Make the sauce: In a saucepan combine the tomatoes with juice, bell pepper,
garlic, onions, and stock, bring liquid to a boil, and simmer the mixture,
covered, stirring occasionally, for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the
vegetables are very tender. Force the mixture through a food mill fitted
with the medium disk into another saucepan, add salt and pepper to taste,
and simmer the sauce until it is reduced to about 2
One half cups.

Make the filling: In a bowl combine well the Parmesan, mozzarella, ricotta,
chives, and salt and pepper to taste.

Roll out the dough on a pasta machine, following the above procedure but
rolling and making the ravioli with 1 sheet of dough at a time. After
rolling out 1 sheet of dough, trim the ends of the dough and halve the
dough crosswise. Cover 1 piece with one third of the chives, arranging them
very close together lengthwise over the entire surface of the dough, and
press chives down firmly with a rolling pin. Put the remaining piece of
dough on top of the chives and press it down very firmly with a rolling
pin. Dust both sides of the chive layered dough with flour, feed the dough
carefully through the rollers set at the fifth lowest notch, and continue
to feed it through the rollers, turning the dial one notch lower each time,
until the second lowest notch is reached. The chives may break through the
dough in spots. Trim the ends of the dough and cut the dough crosswise into
2 pieces, 1 piece 1 1/2inches longer than the other. Put heaping
tablespoons of the filling in lengthwise rows on the shorter piece, spacing
them about 1inch from the edges with their centers about 3inches apart.
Brush the dough around the filling with water, put the longer piece of
dough on top, and press it gently around the mounds of filling, pressing
out any air bubbles. With a fluted pastry wheel or knife cut the dough
between the rows of filling into about 2 One half by 2inch rectangles. Arrange
the ravioli as they are formed in one layer on a lightly floured tray.
Continue to make ravioli, 1 sheet of dough at a time, with he remaining
dough, chives, reserving a few for garnish, and filling in the same manner.
The ravioli may be kept, uncovered and chilled, for up to 2 hours.

In a kettle of boiling salted water add the ravioli and cook them, in
batches, at a bare simmer, covered partially, for 10 to 12 minutes, or
until they are al dente Serve the ravioli with the heated sauce. Garnish
with some reserved chives and serve with the Parmesan.

Yield: 24 ravioli

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL9081

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by "Angele and Jon Freeman"
jfreeman@comteck.com on Apr 4, 1998