Goat cheese and sundried tomato ravioli with roasted pumpkin foam

Ingredients
For dough:
Qty Unit
Flour 300 gm
Semolina 100 gm
Eggs 4 Nos
Salt 1 Pinch
For the stuffing:
Milk 300 gm
Butter 70 gm
Flour 70 gm
Sun dried tomato 100 gm
Goat cheese 200 gm
Grated parmesan 50 gm
Salt 5 gm
Pepper powder 2 gm
For the foam:
Pumpkin 100 gm
Whipping cream 100 gm
Salt 4 gm
Olive oil 2 ml

 

Method:
For dough:

  • Mix all the ingredients together and make the dough with your hands. Knead until firm.
  • Rest the dough for half an hour and start to roll it with the help of a pasta machine starting from no.10 of the machine till no.2.
  • Cut the pasta sheet into desired size to give different shape and size.

For the stuffing:

  • Make a roux by cooking the flour in butter.
  • Mix the roux with the mix to make a very thick béchamel.
  • Add goat cheese, chopped sun dried tomato, salt and pepper to finish the mixture.
  • Wait until cold.
  • Stuff the cut pasta sheet with the mixture and give desired shape.
  • Blanch the pasta in boiling salted water until it starts to float on the boiling water.

For the foam:

  • Roast the cleaned pumpkin with salt and olive oil in an oven at 180C for 30mins, until cooked.
  • Make a fine puree of the same with the help on a blender.
  • Whip the whipping cream till soft peak consistency.
  • Fold the puree in the cream.

Serve the cooked pasta with the pumpkin foam.

 


Chef Anurudh Khanna
Executive Chef
Westin Hotel, Pune
Rinku Madan

Rinku Madan, an acclaimed Gourmand in India, recently completed her studies in Global Journalism at the Harvard University, Massachusetts (Grade A Honors) with the objective to pursue her writing skills in the area of Global Luxury. She had earlier studied at the French Culinary Institute in New York (an affiliate of Culinary Institute of America) to certify in the arena of Food Writing.