Duck Confit Raviolis Food

DUCK CONFIT RAVIOLIS

Steps:

• Place the flour on a clean work surface. Make a well in the center of the flour, break the eggs into the well. Add salt and olive oil in the center of the well and mix gently with a fork.
• Slowly begin incorporating flour in the flour pulling side of the well. With your hands or a food processor continue working the dough until it comes together. If the dough is too dry, add a little water; if too wet or sticky, add a little more flour.
• Keep working the dough and continue kneading until the dough becomes smooth and elastic, about 8-10 minutes. Gather the kneaded dough and form a ball. Cover the dough ball with plastic or aluminum foil and let stand at room temperature for at least 1 hour.
• Lightly flour the work surface, place the ball of dough in the floured area. With the palm of your hand, flatten into a circle about six inches. With a lightly floured rolling pin, roll out the dough starting from the center and sideways, slightly rotate the position of the rolling pin with each move, always starting at the center and rolling sideways. (Keep the dough covered until ready to use.)
• Continue stretching until the dough is uniform 1/8 inch or so thick. Sprinkle lightly stretched dough and let it dry for about 15 minutes before cutting.
• In a skillet, heat the butter and oil, garlic, tomatoes, mushrooms in a skillet over medium heat, and sprinkle with salt and black pepper. Cook until brown, about 8 minutes, add the peas cook for 1 more minute. Reserve.
• In a large bowl mix together the duck confit, ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese and egg until it's all mixed together.
• Place about 1 teaspoon of filling on each circle individual pasta. Moisten the edges and place another circle on top. Press firmly on the edges to seal properly. Repeat with remaining dough and filling.
• Put salted water to boil. Add ravioli. Reduce heat to simmer; Cook for 1-2 minutes or until ravioli float to the surface and are tender to the touch. Drain. Put the ravioli in the sauce and heat and cover with sauce. Serve and enjoy!

WILD DUCK PORCINI RAVIOLI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 F degrees.
• Start a large stock pot of water to boil for ravioli.
• For the Filling.
• Rinse duck and pat dry. Season inside and out with salt and pepper. Cut vegetables into wedges. Stuff duck cavity with vegetables and squeeze juice of orange into cavity. Place duck on roasting rack. Roast for 15 minutes on 450. Reduce heat to 350°F and cook until thermometer reads 160 in thigh.
• Remove meat from bone, reserving bones to make a secondary stock. (this could be used in place of the reserved mushroom stock as suggested for the ragu-it would give greater depth to the dish without the mushrooms overpowering the delicate ravioli).
• Shred or dice very fine the duck. Moisten with meat with the juices from roasting pan if necessary.
• For the Pasta Dough.
• Mix dry ingredients, eggs, water and salt in a bowl. Knead dough until it is silky soft (about 25 minutes by hand).
• Roll out on a floured surface to ¼ inch thickness. If dough is sticky, sprinkle with flour.
• Using a biscuit cutter or small glass, cut 3-inch circles from the dough.
• Place a spoonful of the mixture in the center of the circle and top with another circle of dough.
• Crimp the edges with a fork, being sure to completely seal the ravioli. If needed, moisten the edge of the bottom circle with cold water before crimping the top circle over the filling.
• For the Ragu.
• While duck is roasting, place dried wild mushrooms in heat-proof container and add boiling water to cover. Allow to stand until mushrooms are reconstituted, about 1 hours or so. Drain mushrooms, reserving liquid. Chop mushrooms into bite-sized pieces. Reserve.
• Add veal demi-glacé to sauté pan along with reserved mushroom liquid (be sure to strain mushroom liquid to remove any particles and/or residual dirt). Create a sauce from the demi-glace making sure it isn't too thin or too thick. Add mushrooms to the sauce. Adjust seasonings as needed.
• For the Ravioli.
• Make ravioli by filling with desired amount of duck, sealing with egg wash (or water) and removing all air bubbles from each ravioli.
• Cook ravioli in boiling water until al dente, about 6 minutes.
• Drain ravioli, reserving some of the pasta liquid. Quickly add ravioli to ragu. Gently toss to coat ravioli with ragu. Add additional cooking liquid from pasta if necessary. You don't want this too dry.
• Dish into pre-heated, large shallow rimmed bowls. Place a 1/4-1/3' slice of Foie Gras on top of ravioli.
• Serve with parmesean cheese on the side.

DUCK CONFIT RAVIOLI RECIPE - (4.5/5)

Steps:

• RAVIOLI METHOD To prepare the duck confit ravioli filling- combine the 1 cup of duck confit with ½ tsp. fresh thyme, 2 tbsp. water chestnuts, 1 tbsp. olive oil, ½ tsp. roasted garlic and salt and pepper. Place 1 Tbsp. of the filling onto a 2 inch square of pasta dough. Brush the pasta dough with egg and place another 2 inch square sheet of pasta dough on top. Crimp the edges and set aside. Cook 2 ravioli in salted boiling water until tender, serve on top of ¾ cup of the parsnip puree and garnish with shaved Parmesan and fresh herbs. Serve.