Liquid Fire Ravioli with Sweet Tomato Sauce
Tender ravioli are filled with a spicy tomato aspic and are served in a sweet tomato sauce. The aspic liquifies when the ravioli are cooked and deliver the promised liquid fire.
Ingredients
10 tomatoes, peeled and seeded
1/2 tsp. salt
4 cups vegetable stock
8 gelatin leaves
5 tbsp. Tabasco Sauce
50 1-in. squares pasta
1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
For sauce:
5 small tomatoes, peeled, seeded and diced
1 tbsp. honey
1 bunch basil
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup vegetable stock
Steps
- Cook tomato, garlic, and salt in vegetable stock on low heat for 40 min. Cool 5 min. Puree tomato mixture with gelatin and Tabasco. Spread mixture on a sheet pan 1/4-in. thick. Refrigerate overnight.
- Cut mixture into 1/2-in. cubes and stuff into pasta.
- For the sauce, simmer all ingredients 1 hr. Puree.
- Cook raviolis for 1 min. in salted water. Roll in olive oil and a dash of salt.
- For service. pour 1 1/2-oz. of sauce on a plate, top with raviolis.