Homemade Italian Ravioli with Red sauce

Ingredients:
For making ravioli dough:

Maida 1 cup

Egg 1

Water 2-3 tbsp

For making stuffing:

Oil 4 tbsp

Chopped veggies

Garlic 2 tsp

Onion 1

1/2 Green and 1/2 Red capsicum 

Mushroom 1 cup

Sweetcorn 1 cup

Cheese grated 1 tbsp

Oregano and chilli flakes 1 TSP

Pepper 1/4 tsp

Salt 1/2 tsp

For making red sauce:

Tomato puree (3  tomatoes boiled,peeled,grinded) 1 cup

Garlic (chopped) 2 tsp

Onion (chopped) 1

Red chilli powder 1 tsp

Oregano and chilli flakes 1 tsp

Sugar 1/2 tsp

Tomato ketchup 1/4 cup

Peri peri masala a pinch

Salt 1/2 tsp

For making white sauce:

Butter 1 tbsp

Garlic (chopped) 2 tsp

Maida 2 tsp

Milk 1 cup

Chilli flakes and oregano 1 TSP

Cheese grated 1/4 cup

Salt 1/2 tsp

Procedure:

Making ravioli dough discs:

Take 1 cup maida and add one egg and add 1/2 tsp salt. Mix it thoroughly. Knead using water and make a medium consistency dough and refrigerate for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes make 3 small balls of dough and roll out chapati and using a circular mould make small equal sized dough discs. Sprinkle some maida/flour over all discs .Dry below  fan for 1/2 hr.

For making vegetable stuffing:

Take a pan add oil and add 2 tsp garlic,1 chopped onion,Green and Red capsicum 1 cup, mushroom 1cup ,sweetcorn 1 cup.Increase the flame of gas and drain all the water from veggies add salt,cheese and sprinkle some pepper. 

Your stuffing is ready remove it in a bowl and keep aside.

For making red sauce:

Grind 3 boiled,peeled tomatoes into fine puree.  In a pan add 4 tbsp oil,2 tsp garlic,1 onion,1 tsp red chilli powder,1 tsp oregano and chilli flakes, add 1 cup tomato puree. Let it boil. Add 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp sugar,1/4 cup tomato sauce,peri peri masala a pinch. Let it boil until raw smell of tomatoes goes.

Your red sauce is ready remove it in a bowl and keep it aside.

For making ravioli:

Arrange  all ravioli discs top them with first layer of vegetable stuffing then second layer Red sauce and third layer of cheese(grated).Apply water at edges of the above disc , close the disc with another disc, press the edges and seal the discs with fork as shown in the video. In this manner make all other ravioli discs.

Now take water in a pan add salt and oil and put all the ravioli discs in boiling water and cook for 5 minutes and then take them out in a strainer.

Your ravioli is ready.

Note :  Don't overcook the ravioli else they would be very hard and chewy.

For making white sauce:

Now in a pan add 1 tbsp butter let it melt then add 2 tsp garlic saute for a while then add 2 tsp maida saute till brown. Now pour 1 cup milk let it boil add 1/4 cup grated cheese let it boil until it thickens a bit switch off the gas and. Add 1/2 tsp salt.

Your white sauce is ready

Note: Don't add salt in white sauce when the gas flame is on because the milk might get curdled.

Serving the ravioli:

While serving the ravioli add ravioli in hot white sauce and serve with red sauce as shown in the video.

Enjoy your homemade yummy Italian ravioli.

Lasagna from homemade lasagna sheets

  Ingredients:

For lasagna sheets:
Maida 1cup
Salt 1/2 tsp
Egg 1 (optional)

For white sause:
Milk 1cup
Chopped garlic 2 tsp
Butter 2 tsp
Maida/flour 1 tbsp
Sweet corn (boiled) 1/4 cup
Chilli flakes+oregano 2 tsp
Cheese 1/4 cup
Salt 1/2 tsp

For red sauce:
Tomatoes (boiled and peeled) 5
Oil 3-4 tbsp
Chopped garlic 2 tsp
Chopped onion 1
Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
Red Chilli powder 1 tsp
Pizza masala 1/2 Tsp
Sugar 1/2 Tsp
Tomato ketchup 1/4 cup

For vegetable stuffing:
Oil 4 tbsp
Garlic 2 tsp
Below chopped veggies
onion 1
Tomato 1/2
Mushroom 1 cup
Green + Red capsicum 1cup
Sweet corn 1 cup
Red chilli powder 1-2 tsp
Cumin coriander powder 1tbsp
Salt 1 tsp

Procedure:

 For making lasagna sheets:

1. Take 1 cup maida and add 1 egg (optional) ,salt mix it and knead using water into a medium consistency dough and refrigerate for 15 min.
2. After 15 minutes knead the dough and roll out chapati and cut into rectangular lasagna sheets. Sprinky some maida and let the sheets dry for 1/2 hour
3. After 1/2 hour boil sheets and keep them on strainer dry them and use in making lasagna.

For making white sauce:

1. Now take a hot pan add 2 tsp butter then add chopped garlic roast it then add 2 tsp maida saute till brown then add 1 cup milk let it boil then add 1/4 cup cheese,2 tsp chilli flakes+oregano,1/4 cup sweet corn mix it thoroughly switch off the gas and then add 1/2 tsp salt (as cheese is already salty)
2. Take it out in a bowl for later use

For making red sauce:

1. Boil 5 tomatoes in cooker till 2-3 whistles then peel them and grind into puree.
2. Now in a hot pan add oil 3-4 tbsp oil,2 tsp garlic,1 chopped onion,1/2 tsp turmeric,1 tsp red chilli powder,1/2 tsp pizza masala,tomato puree,1/2 tsp salt,1/2 tsp Sugar,1/4 cup tomato ketchup,some pizza masala again. Let it boil till raw smell of tomato goes.
3. Now take it out in another bowl for later use.

Now Preheat oven at 150 degree for 20 minutes

For making vegetable stuffing:

1. Pour 4 tbsp oil in a hot pan add 2 tsp chopped garlic ,1 chopped onion,1/4 cup tomato sauce,1cup mushroom,1 cup red and green capsicum,1cup sweetcorn,1tsp salt,1-2 two red chilli powder,1tbsp cumin coriander powder saute all nicely until all water drains off from veggies but don't overcook.

For making lasagna:

Its time to assemble all things in baking tray and bake the lasagna.

1. Grease the baking tray with butter then add following layers :
2. First layer- cooked lasagna sheets over it  Second layer of white sauce and third layer of red sauce spread evenly with spoon then fourth layer of vegetable stuffing then fifth layer of grated cheese sprinkle some pizza masala over it and some pepper then again lasagna sheets keep on repeating the layers until you reach the edge of baking tin now the top layer would be of grated cheese.( I had few chicken sausages so I added them at top it's optional).
3. Now bake at 140 degree for 20 minutes (depends on your oven you can increase or decrease the temperature).
4. Now enjoy the yummy homemade lasagna.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Tip:   while making white sauce always add salt after you switch off the gas as adding salt before might spoil the milk and as we are adding cheese in white sauce which already contains salt so add salt a little less.