Asparagus Ricotta Strudel Vegetarian Or Not Your Choice Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400ºF
• Heat olive oil in skillet on medium-high heat.
• Add garlic and leeks and sauté until crisp-tender, about 2 minutes.
• Stir in mint and orange rind, season with salt and pepper and cool.
• Combine leek mixture with goat cheese.
• Lay pastry on a floured surface and roll out to a 10 x 14-inch rectangle.
• Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Divide cheese mixture in half.
• Pile half of mixture along upper third of pastry lengthwise, leaving a 1-inch wide border on short sides and top.
• Lay asparagus spears evenly over top of filling.
• Cover with remaining cheese mixture.
• Brush all inside edges of pastry with beaten egg.
• Fold pastry over filling and tuck ends under.
• Slash top of strudel on the diagonal every 2-inches.
• Brush with egg.
• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil, and add a generous amount of salt. Add the asparagus. Cook pencil-thin asparagus for two minutes, three to four minutes if stems are medium-thick. Transfer to a bowl of ice-cold water. Drain and set aside.
• Place the ricotta in a large pasta bowl.
• Bring the water back to a boil, and add the pasta. Cook al dente, following the directions for timing on the package but checking a minute before the suggested cooking time. Stir 1/3 cup of the pasta cooking water into the ricotta. Drain the pasta and toss at once with the olive oil and ricotta, the arugula, asparagus and Parmesan. Serve hot.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a small saute pan, melt the butter, add the garlic and onions and crumbled pepper, about 3 minutes.
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Keep warm and liquid.
• Using parchment facilitates rolling the strudel.
• Work on parchment to moisten your phyllo and ultimately, you can transfer the parchment to a jellyroll pan.
• Lay out one sheet of phyllo, and be sure to cover the rest with a damp well-wrung out tea towel.
• Use the butter to brush on the phyllo dough (bits of the onion and garlic can be included). Sprinkle with bread crumbs in every other layer of phyllo. Continue brushing all sheets with butter, stacking them and crumbing every other layer. Reserve a bit of the cheese and bread crumbs to sprinkle on the completed strudel.
• Toss the asparagus into the pan with the butter just to pick up some flavor. Take the asparagus and divide in 2 even batches. Lay batches end to end in the lower third of the phyllo square. A border of about 1 1/2-2" should remain on either side of the asparagus.
• Begin rolling the strudel by first folding the borders over the ends of the bunches. This will create a "closed" end to your strudel. Brush the borders with butter to ensure they don't break and to seal them. Carefully roll the strudel, making sure the ends stay closed. Be careful not to tear the phyllo.
• Brush the strudel with butter and sprinkle with cheese and bread crumbs.
• Transfer the completed strudel to a jellyroll pan with the parchment paper.
• Bake for about 15 minutes or until browned.
• Regarding asparagus -- If they are in season and you'd like to use fresh, you can roast or saute them. Make sure they are cooled before proceeding with assembly.

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 375.
• Combine ricotta cheese, parmesan, dill, ham (if using), roasted pepper, green onion, egg white, salt, and pepper in a large bowl; set aside.
• Snap asparagus. Cut into 1/2 inch pieces. Cook, covered, in a small amount of water for about 5 minutes or just till crisp tender (don't overcook). Drain. Cool under cold water. Stir into ricotta mixture.
• Place one sheet of phyllo on a dry towel (keep remaining phyllo covered with a damp towel). Spray with Pam. Place another sheet of phyllo atop. Spray with Pam. Sprinkle with 1/4 of the bread crumbs. Repeat with remaining sheets and remaining bread crumbs. Spray last layer with Pam. Spoon cheese mixture lenghwise onto half of the top layer of phyllo, leaving about a 1 1/2 inch border on all sides. Fold in the shor sides over the filling. Starting from the longest side, roll up layers jelly roo style.
• Spray a large baking sheet with Pam. Place strudel, seam side down, on baking sheet. Spray with Pam. Using a sharp knife, score into 12 slices, cutting through top layer only. Bake in a 375 oven for 30 minutes or till light brown. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving. To serve, cut into slices.

Steps:

• Place the woody stems from the asparagus in a food processor. Process until smooth. Transfer the pureed asparagus to a fine-mesh strainer set over a small bowl. Let the juices drain, 5 to 10 minutes, pressing down lightly on the puree with a wooden spoon occasionally. Reserve the juice and discard the pulp.
• Bring a large pot of generously salted water to a boil.
• Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk the ricotta, Parmesan and 1 tablespoon lemon juice with some salt and pepper. Add the lemon zest and set aside.
• Once the water has boiled, add the cavatelli and cook according to the package instructions until al dente.
• Meanwhile, add the olive oil to a large skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook until lightly golden, about 2 minutes. Remove the garlic, then add the sliced asparagus and saute until tender, 3 to 5 minutes. Drain the cavatelli directly into the skillet with the asparagus. Add about half of the asparagus juice and allow to simmer for 1 minute. Add the remaining asparagus juice and the remaining tablespoon lemon juice and cook until the pasta is glossy, about 1 minute. Transfer to a bowl and garnish with Pecorino-Romano, lemon zest, dollops of the whipped ricotta, basil and black pepper.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high. Meanwhile, prepare the corn: Slice the corn kernels off the cobs, and add the cobs to the pot of water. (This lends a hint of sweetness.)
• Once the water comes to a boil, add the pasta and cook over medium-high, according to package instructions, until tender but toothsome, just shy of al dente.
• In a large, deep skillet, heat the oil over medium-high. Add the corn kernels and sugar, season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, until they begin to caramelize, about 6 minutes. Stir in the asparagus, scallions and 1 teaspoon turmeric, and cook, stirring frequently, until just softened and corn is caramelized, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a bowl.
• Once the pasta is just short of al dente, reserve 1 1/2 cups pasta water, then drain the pasta, and discard the corn cobs.
• Add the butter, garlic and remaining turmeric to the large skillet and cook over medium until butter melts and starts to foam, about 3 minutes. Whisk in vermouth to deglaze, and cook 1 to 2 minutes, then whisk in 1 cup pasta water.
• Add the pasta, and toss with tongs over medium heat until thoroughly coated and al dente, 1 to 2 minutes, adding pasta water as needed. Remove from heat, stir in half the corn mixture and season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Divide pasta among plates. Dollop with ricotta and top with remaining corn mixture. Drizzle with olive oil. If using lemon, shower the pasta with lemon zest, then cut the lemon into quarters, for squeezing on top, and serve immediately.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
• Combine ricotta and eggs in a large bowl. Season with salt and pepper and, using a large wooden or metal spoon, gently mix in the flour, taking care not to overmix (which could result in tough dumplings).
• Meanwhile, heat butter and 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high. Add leeks and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until leeks have softened completely and are starting to pick up some color, 5 to 8 minutes.
• Add asparagus and peas to the skillet and season with salt and pepper. Cook, tossing occasionally, until asparagus is just tender and bright green, 2 to 4 minutes, depending on its thickness. Remove from heat while you cook the dumplings.
• When the water is at a nice steady boil, drop the ricotta mixture into the pot by the heaping spoonful. (The dumplings will expand in the water, so make them slightly smaller than you'd like them to end up.) Be careful not to crowd the pot; cook the dumplings in batches if need be.
• Once the dumplings rise to the top, let them boil until cooked through, 4 to 5 minutes. (You can always pull one out and cut it in half to test its doneness; the texture will go from dense and doughy to light and pillowy.)
• As the dumplings finish cooking, use a slotted spoon to transfer them to the skillet with the peas and asparagus. Once they're all in there, give everything a quick toss over medium heat just to evenly coat the dumplings in the buttery sauce. Add pea shoots and toss just to wilt slightly.
• Transfer to a large serving bowl or platter and top with parsley, cheese and more olive oil, if you like.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Heat half the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Saute shallots and mushrooms until most of the moisture has evaporated.
• Mix in asparagus and saute until slightly tender.
• Cool slightly.
• Spinkle with parsley, lemon zest, lemon joice, pepper and 3 tbsp Parmesan cheese. Mix.
• Brush first sheet of phylio with olive oil and spinkle with 1/4 tsp tyme. Repeat with the remaining phylio sheets, stacking one on top of the other with the longer sides parallel to the counter's edge.
• Place filling along the longer edge o phylio and roll inot a log, ticking in the sides to prevent mixture from falling out.
• Brush strudel with olive oil and top with remaining cheese.
• Place on parchment-paper lined baking sheet with seam o the bottom and cut three slits widhwise into the top of the strudel.
• Bake for about 17 minutes or until golden brown.
• Cool slightly.
• Slice whre strudel is slit to make four equal portions, then serve.

Steps:

• 1. Mix 1/2 of the breadcrumbs w/ the asparagus cuts and onions. 2. Lay your first sheet of filo down on a lightly greased baking sheet. brush with butter. repeat with 7 more sheets. 3. Put the onion/asparagus mixture (1 inch from all sides) in the middle of the pastry and spread to within one inch of the edge. 4. Fold 1/2 inch up on all sides of the pastry. Fold the Horizontal edges in and roll into a tube. MOld into a horseshoe shape- gently. Brush with a bit more butter and sprinkle w/ remaining breadcrumbs. Bake in a pre-heated 350 oven for 20-30 minutes (until lightly golden on the outside). Serve with a side of sauce made from 1 cup yogurt (low-fat works fine) and tbs of lemon juice. Add a sprinkle of mint or dill for added bright flavors.