You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Spinach and Cheese Pillows If you have salt, parsley, spinach, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the butter you could follow this main course with the Cinnamon Butter Cake as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 3 hours and 35 minutes.
Instructions
1
To make the filling for the pillows ("ravioli"), combine the spinach and goat cheese well and set aside.
Ingredients you will need
Goat Cheese
Ravioli
Spinach
2
Begin the pasta dough by mounding the flour in the center of a clean room temperature work surface like a large wooden cutting board. Create a crater in the center of the mound. Crack the first egg into the center of the crater and add 1/2 teaspoon of the olive oil. With a fork, gently begin to scramble the mixture within the confines of the crater, whilst integrating the flour from the sides of the crater as you carefully beat the egg. Once the first egg is mostly mixed in, shore up the sides of the mound again with flour, maintaining the crater shape. Repeat the process with the 2nd egg and 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil, and again with the 3rd egg and remaining 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil. Start kneading the dough with your palms, allowing the warmth of your hands to impart elasticity to the dough. Knead for a count of about 400 strokes or until you feel you have created a cohesive mass. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and allow it to rest for about 30 minutes.
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Pasta Dough
Olive Oil
Dough
All Purpose Flour
Wrap
Egg
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Cutting Board
Plastic Wrap
1
Combine the milk, onion, bay leaf, cloves, and nutmeg, if using, in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Spoon the melted butter into a separate heat resistant bowl and gradually whisk in the cornstarch, blending thoroughly, then whisk in the Comte cheese. When the milk is fairly hot, pour a small amount of it into the cornstarch/cheese mixture, stirring until the milk is thoroughly blended in. Return this to the remaining milk mixture, and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring frequently.
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Comte
Corn Starch
Bay Leaves
Butter
Cheese
Clove
Nutmeg
Onion
Milk
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Sauce Pan
Whisk
Bowl
2
Remove saucepan from heat, season sauce, to taste, with white pepper, and salt if needed.
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White Pepper
Sauce
Salt
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Sauce Pan
3
Remove and discard bay leaf and cloves. Immediately put a sheet of plastic wrap on top of the sauce to prevent a skin from forming.
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Bay Leaves
Clove
Sauce
Wrap
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Plastic Wrap
4
Begin making the spinach/cheese pillows. Have a bowl of water handy to moisten and seal the dough. Divide the dough in thirds. (You will be working with 1/3 of the dough at a time - keeping the balance wrapped in plastic wrap to prevent it from drying out.) Divide your first third of the dough in half. Use a pasta machine to gradually roll down each of these sections, successively reducing the setting on the machine until it's at the thinnest setting and lay on your floured dough board. Spoon 1 teaspoon of the spinach cheese filling at 4-inch intervals on the pasta dough, and top each with a knob of Brie cheese. Dip your fingers into the bowl of water and moisten the area surrounding the spinach/cheese filling. Cover the filling with the other rolled out piece of dough and press gently around the filling to seal, being careful not to flatten the filling or tear the dough. Using a pizza cutter, begin to cut the filled dough into ravioli squares.
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Brie
Pasta Dough
Ravioli
Spinach
Cheese
Dough
Pasta
Water
Roll
Wrap
Dip
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Pasta Machine
Pizza Cutter
Plastic Wrap
Bowl
5
Remove each ravioli to a floured surface, pressing the edges firmly as you do so. Cover the ravioli with a towel and set aside for 2 hours. Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil, add the ravioli and cook for 1 minute.
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Ravioli
Water
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Sauce Pan
6
Remove the ravioli with a slotted spoon, drain on a paper towel, and keep warm.
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Ravioli
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Slotted Spoon
Paper Towels
7
Reheat the sauce.
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Sauce
8
Serve pillows with sauce spooned over and garnished with parsley.