Beef Ravioli Recipes

Steps:

• Scramble the hamburger meat until done.
• Add all the dry seasonings and gently heat for a few minutes.
• Heat until you get a nice aroma of all the herbs.
• Remove from heat and cool.
• Mix all of the cheeses into the meat.
• It should be a dry dense mixture that will hold together when you form a ball.
• Use a tablespoon or teaspoon for the filling of each ravioli.
• If you don't want to make the pasta dough yourself, you can always use the wonton wrappers.
• They work well.
• Once the ravioli have been assembled they only need to cook a few minutes.

Steps:

• MAKING THE FILLING: Ricotta Filling#1: In a large bowl, blend all filling ingredients together until smooth, set aside filling until needed.
• Ricotta Filling#2: In a large bowl, blend all filling ingredients together until smooth, set aside filling until needed.
• Beef and Spinach Filling: Brown beef and veal in butter with the whole clove of garlic.
• Remove garlic and let meat mixture cool.
• Mix spinach, parsley, eggs, cheese and nutmeg into cooled meat until well blended, set aside filling until needed.
• Sausage Filling: Brown sausage in frying pan, drain fat and allow sausage to cool.
• When sausage has cooled, mix in eggs and cheese, set aside filling until needed.
• MAKING THE RAVIOLI DOUGH: Sift flour and salt together.
• Place flour mixture on a board, making a well in the center of the flour.
• Drop eggs into the flour well, using your hand or a fork, break the yolks and beat eggs slightly.
• Combine the eggs and flour together, gradually adding enough warm water to make a stiff dough.
• Knead dough well, until smooth; cover the dough and let it rest for 15 minutes.
• Cut dough in half and roll each half of the dough out on a floured board, into a very thin sheet (about 1/16 to 1/8 inch thick).
• FILLING THE RAVIOLI: Drop about 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoonfuls of filling about 1 1/2 inches apart all along the dough.
• When the sheet of dough is fully dotted with dabs of filling mixture, cover filling with other sheet of dough.
• Using your fingers, gently press dough between each dab of filling to seal it.
• Cut ravioli into squares with a (zig-zag edged) pastry cutter, or very sharp knife.
• DRYING THE RAVIOLI: Allow ravioli to dry for one hour before cooking.
• COOKING THE RAVIOLI: Drop ravioli into 6 to 8 quarts of boiling, salted water and cook for about 10 to 15 minutes, or until dough is tender.
• Remove cooked ravioli from pot carefully with a skimmer or a large slotted spoon, and drain well.
• Place drained ravioli on a serving platter in layers, alternating layers with your favorite sauce and a sprinkling of grated cheese between each ravioli layer.
• Serve hot.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350.
• Cook ravioli to desired doneness as directed on pkg., drain.
• meanwhile, brown beef, drain.
• Stir in spaghetti sauce and spinach.
• Spoon and spread half of beef mixture into greased 8 inch square baking dish.
• Arrange ravioli over beef layer.
• Spoon and spread remaining beef mixture over ravioli.
• Cover with foil.
• Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
• Uncover baking dish and sprinkle with cheese.
• Bake, uncovered and additional 5 minutes or until its bubbly and cheese has melted.

Steps:

• Place all of the ravioli ingredients into a small sauce pan,except the wonton wrappers, and turn the heat to low.
• Cook the meat for about 10 minutes, or until browned; you much stir this constantly and sometimes vigorously to keep the mixture smooth, no lumps!
• Wet the edges of a wonton wrapper and place 1-1 1/2 tablespoons of the meat mixture in the center; top with another wonton skin and press all of the air out of the ravioli while you are pressing the edges together to make a tight seal.
• Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
• Place all of the sauce ingredients in a medium saucepan except the cheese and bring to a boil.
• Add the ravioli to the boiling water and boil them, stirring occasionally for 5-8 minutes.
• Remove the sauce from the heat and add the cheddar cheese and salt and pepper to taste.
• Toss the ravioli and sauce together in a large bowl and serve.

Steps:

• Prepare ravioli in a large Dutch oven according to package directions; drain and keep warm.
• Melt 2 T. butter in Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and next 3 ingredients; saute over medium-high heat 6 minutes or until mushrooms are tender. Stir in diced tomatoes and green chiles, basil, and cream; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes. Stir in Parmesan cheese; add salt. Stir in ravioli, tossing to coat.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°; cook ravioli according to package directions; drain well.
• Return to pan; cover and keep warm.
• Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook ground meat, onion, and garlic over medium heat until meat is brown and onion is tender; drain off fat.
• Stir in undrained tomatoes, soup, basil, and oregano; gently stir in cooked ravioli.
• Gently stir in cooked ravioli.
• Transfer mixture to an ungreased 3-quart rectangular baking dish.
• Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese and Parmesan cheese.
• Bake, uncovered, for about 20 minutes or until heated through.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 F degrees.
• Cook ravioli as instructed on package, drain.
• in skillet, brown ground beef and drain.
• Stir spaghetti sauce and spinach into ground beef.
• Spread half of beef mixture into 2 quart baking dish.
• Layer ravioli over beef mixture.
• Spoon rest of beef mixture over ravioli.
• Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes.
• Sprinkle with cheese and bake uncovered for an additional 10 minutes until cheese is melted and casserole is bubbly hot.