Cheese Ravioli with Tomato Basil & Cream Sauce
Ingredients
1 packet of spinach raviolis
Parmesan cheese - for garnish
slivered almonds - for garnish
Ravioli Sauce
3 large fresh tomatoes
1/2 small onion - chopped
3 garlic cloves - minced
2 tbsp butter
4 tbsp parmesan cheese
2 tsp basil flakes
1/2 tsp oregano
1/4 cup whipping cream
salt & pepper - to taste
Method
Boil the tomatoes for 4-5 mins or until tender; Chop the onions and saute them in some oil till they look pinkish and glazed. Add the minced garlic and saute for another 1 minute.
Now blend the tomatoes, onions and garlic mixture to form a smooth paste.
Add some butter to a non-stick pan, then add the tomato-onion-garlic sauce and let it boil on medium-flame. Add the basil and oregano, salt and pepper, and let it simmer.
Whisk the whipping cream and the Parmesan cheese in a separate bowl to form a thick mixture. Reduce the flame to low, and add this mixture to the tomato sauce.
Meanwhile, cook the cheese ravioli in boiling water as instructed on the packet.
To Serve
Layer the cooked ravioli in a dish, then top it with a generous coating of the sauce. Garnish with some more Parmesan cheese, slivered almonds and basil flakes. Serve your delicious restaurant-style Cheese Ravioli with Tomato Basil & Cream Sauce and flatter your friends and family! Off this goes to DK's AWED-Italian Food event, and also to Harini's Food in Color featuring Red this month!
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35 comments :
Tomato Sauce.............Ummmmmmmmmmmm
I love tomato sauce very much.
You are doing great job,Your blog is also good.
That creamy tomato sauce looks divine! I agree, I can't resist ravioli if it's offered. It has the extra treat of filling, heh :)
lovely recipe for the sauce Mansi! thanks for sharing!
-anjali
I lurrve ravioli too :D btw, a my friend maya and i are lookin at your site together and she thot ur pics are yummy!
thanks Maya! I have to extend a special thanks to my new readers, but Nags, more than that I need to thank you for sharing my blog with your friends:)D
I love ravioli too - now that is exactly what I want to eat for dinner - but I quite like a plain tomato sauce with it which is just as well because we don't often have cream in the house - but if I have some cream to use up might just try your creamy sauce
The creamy tomato sauce looks awesome and yumm yumm.I love tomato sauce very much..Thanks for sharing.
I am drooling looking at the pics. I love this combo. I have to buy some ravioli now(or else i wont get sleep).
Hi Mansi, I too love ravioli, yours looks delicious. Love the addition of cream.
Looks and sounds delicious Mansi. Will try Ravioli your style this time, Thnx for sharing!
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Mansi,
love the tomato basil ravioli, I love both the spinach and butternut squash type that we get in Italian restaurants, am going to try your recipe verbatim, hope it comes some what okay. Thanks for sharing.
oh oh oh I want that ravioli now! Looks so delicious with that colorful sauce.
good to see that quite a few of you prefer the tomato sauce over the bechemel one:) the cream in the recipe provides just the right balance, so pls do try it out and let me know how it works for your tastebuds!:)
thanks for the encouraging words, always!
Wow tempting recipe .... iam sure will try this. My fav dish
love the ravioli. the sauce looks nice and creamy
Oh heavenly! U made me crave for some now! mus try t get some ravioli over the weekend!
i like the addition of cheese and cream to the sauce....this is right up my alley!! havent had ravioli...but am sure this will be great with any kind of pasta.....
We love ravioli so much. Our favorite gourmet restaurant makes this sauce and names it "Pink sauce".Your ravioli in sauce looks yummy.
This looks so warm and delicious! I would love to learn how to make my own ravioli :). I just ate dinner, but my mouth is watering at the thought of getting a taste of this; it's comfort food at its best!
sophie - I'm going to post how to make raviolis at home...check back to see it up on the blog, probably next week, as a lot of people have requested me to post about it:)
Love any Italian food. Prefer the tomato sauce, too.
I like the new look to your blog, Mansi.
Mansi, this sauce is a classic, very simple yet so tasty. Yum ... cheese n spinach ravioli ... i'm getting hungry.
Simply delish!I love pasta in any form but its the tomato sauce thats the star attraction. Can't wait to try it.
Mansi, this is just perfect! So yummy! The new look is great too, very different from the earlier one!
Thanks for entering:)
That looks gorgeous!!! I love tomato cream sauces but mine tend to curdle... could be because I end up using 2% milk instead of cream....
The sauce looks creamy n rich..Lovely recipe..
I love the ravioli. I do hope you share one of your excellent pasta dishes with Presto Pasta Nights. www.prestopastanights.com
This sauce looks absolutely dreamy. I've never made my own tomato sauce before, always use jarred. This sounds so easy to do, I'll have to make my own now and serve with stuffed ravioli. Yummy!!!
Just a few questions regarding the sauce. It says a cup of fresh tomatoes..do you boil them whole and then cut them up? Also, it says to blend the tomatoes with the garlic and onion until it's a paste. Then it says to add the "tomato sauce" to the butter. Is the "tomato sauce" the garlic, onion, and tomato that was previously blended together? It sounds delicious and I just want to make sure I get it right. Thanks!!!!
Hi paula,
sorry for the confusion! it should be 3 large tomatoes - start with these, cut them up and boil them just to make them tender. Then blend them with sauteed onion & garlic.
and yes, the "tomato sauce" is the blended onion-garlic-tomato paste.
I'll edit the recipe to reflect these changes too..thanks for pointing it out:)
Hi there,
I am planning to try and make this for my daughter's birthday party, as one of the dishes [the main course is punjabi]. how many kids will this 1 recipe be enough for? They are aged between 5-8 years. Pls let me know.
Which size pack of ravioli should I use? [ie how many raviolis in one pack}
this should serve about 5-6 kids, considering its a side dish and not the main course. I think the Ravioli pack I used had 20 pieces, and was enough for 4 adults.
Hope this helps! again, this recipe is just an estimate, so you might have to adjust quantities a bit here an there, but it should serve to be a good estimate!
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I had some spinach and three cheese ravioli and have been searching for a creamy sauce. This was the PERFECT sauce for my ravioli. It was melt in my mouth goodness! I didn't have enough fresh tomatoes so I used a can of crushed tomatoes. I am looking forward to using fresh tomatoes from our garden to make this sauce this summer.
I tried this with few changes, it was a instant hit with everyone. :o)
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