Italian cuisine is gaining more and more fans. Its symbols are pizza and all kinds of pasta, and a feature of the menu is the presence of a large number of seafood, fruits and vegetables, meat and cheeses of all kinds.
The article will tell you how to cook a delicious Italian dish of ravioli with mushrooms.
What it is
The Italian dish of ravioli is dough products with various fillings. They remind Russian dumplings, Asian manti or Ukrainian dumplings, but differ in shape and method of modeling. Italians are jealous of their cuisine and do not like it when they are confused with ravioli with mushrooms, meat, fish, vegetables or fruits, for example, with dumplings.
The article tells how to cook this national Italian dish. So, we sculpt and serve to the table ravioli with mushrooms.
Ingredients
Cooking this dish is very simple. A novice cook will cope with this. The process is simple, and the result is a dish with excellent taste, which can be served for lunch and for the festive table. So, the ingredients that you will need:
- premium wheat flour - one and a half cups;
- vegetable oil - five tablespoons (two for dough, three for frying);
- water - fifty grams;
- chicken eggs - two or three pieces;
- oyster mushrooms - two hundred and fifty grams;
- salt, black pepper - to taste;
- sour cream of any fat content - half a glass.
As you can see, products for this dish can be bought at any store at an affordable price.
Filling
Oyster mushrooms need to be washed in cold water, finely chopped. Pour vegetable oil into a heated pan and put mushrooms, add a little salt and pepper. Fry them until cooked over medium heat until all the liquid has evaporated. It takes about 10-15 minutes.
After transferring the mushrooms to a blender and grind to a state of gruel, salt and pepper to taste. The filling for ravioli with mushrooms is ready.
Modeling Features
Now you need to make a fresh dough. To do this, add a good pinch of salt to the sifted flour, mix. In the flour, make a deepening, pour there vegetable oil, water and eggs. Knead the dough. Patiently knead it until supple and resilient. If it sticks to your hands, you need to add a little flour, if the dough turned out too steep, add vegetable oil to it. The finished dough is wrapped in cling film (you can in an ordinary plastic bag) and put in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
After a while, get the dough out of the refrigerator, roll it very thinly. In the first half lay mushroom stuffing (1.5-2 teaspoons, not more), cover with the second half. Press lightly over the entire formation, pinch the edges. After a curly knife, cut the dough into squares. Prefabricated ready. Products can be boiled immediately or, sprinkled with flour, put into the freezer.
The main rule: ravioli can be of different shapes (square, in the form of a crescent or an ellipse), but always with a curly cut edge.
Cooking and Serving
Ravioli with mushrooms, the recipe of which is given in the article, can be boiled or fried.
Boil products in salted water or in vegetable broth until cooked (about 10 minutes) over medium heat. They can also be fried in a frying pan in butter or deep-fried.
Ravioli is served as an independent dish with sour cream or any sauce, broth, sprinkled with green onions, dill or parsley. You can sprinkle hot products with finely grated cheese. Sweet ravioli when served watered with liquid honey.
Possible fillings
Delicious ravioli with cheese and mushrooms. It is very simple to prepare cheese and mushroom filling : add finely grated cheese to the mushroom gruel. Italians traditionally add spicy cheese, but this is a matter of taste.
In general, you can start ravioli with different mincemeats: meat or fish, with the addition of chopped vegetables - onions, carrots, cabbage, potatoes. A good alternative is hard cheese or cottage cheese.
But did you know that ravioli can be prepared for dessert, stuffed with fruits or berries? Italian chefs even use chocolate filling!
Little secrets
- Real Italian ravioli with mushrooms are cooked only in olive oil.
- Chicken eggs can be replaced with quail at the rate of 1: 5.
- In this recipe, oyster mushrooms were used for the filling, but you can take any mushrooms - mushrooms, butter, honey mushrooms, white, chanterelles.
- Ravioli can be fried when they are filled with a ready-to-eat filling. If raw mince is used, then it is better to boil the products.
- The dough for ravioli is quite elastic, so it does not stick well. In this case, the hostesses resort to a little trick: beat the egg, then with a culinary brush they lubricate the surface of the thinly rolled dough with it and only then lay out the filling. The egg in this case acts as glue.
- Italians say that you need to cook with a smile and a good mood, then any dish will turn out delicious!
Now you know how to cook ravioli with mushrooms. Photos of this dish are presented in the article.