Recipes On Rails: New Recipes tagged with pasta,main

Beef Genovese

2012-02-08 11:20:42 UTC

Ingredients:

2.0 pound Short Ribs boneless
2.0 tablespoon Oil, Olive
3.0 each Onion large cut into chunks
1.0 clove Garlic minced
0.5 pound Mushrooms sliced
2.0 cup Tomatoes, grape halved
0.25 cup Wine, White Vermouth
2.0 cup Stock, Beef homemade
2.0 tablespoon Basil, Fresh chiffonade
1.0 pound Pasta cooked

Instructions:

Season the beef with salt, pepper, a little garlic powder and put in a vacuum bag. Process in the water bath at 56C (133 F) for 48 hours (36 is probably fine).

Saute the onions and garlic in the olive oil till the onions are tender. Add the mushrooms and continue till the mushrooms give up thier liquid and are tender.

Deglaze the pan with the wine. Add the tomatoes and cook for a few minutes. Add the stock and bring to a boil.

Reduce until desired thickness. Adjust seasonings with salt and pepper. Add the liquids that collected in the short rib bags.

Add pasta to pan and toss. Allow to sit briefly for the pasta to soak in some of the sauce. Add some parmasean and the basil. Toss and serve with the sliced short ribs over top.

Servings: 4
Prep Time:
By: Warren
For more info visit:
http://www.recipesonrails.com/recipes/575

Chicken in tarragon tomato cream

2012-02-03 19:32:18 UTC

Ingredients:

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4.0 each Chicken Breast deboned
1.0 each Onion diced
1.0 each pattipan squash large, cubed
0.25 cup Cognac
1.0 cup Stock, Chicken
0.5 cup Cream, Heavy
2.0 tablespoon Butter
1.0 each Zucchini Slices cubed
1.5 tablespoon Tarragon finely chopped
0.5 can Tomatoes, Diced
4.0 ear Corn cut off cob

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 450

Cut up pattipan squash, removing seeds that are in the middle. Add the cubed zuch.

Toss with oil, salt and pepper. Spread out on cookie sheet.

Roast in the oven till squash starts to brown on top.

If using Sous-vide chicken breasts, remove from the bag, dry, and pan fry to give chicken color.

Otherwise, Use brined deboned chicken breasts. Preheat pan to med high. Dry breasts and toss with oil, salt and pepper. Lightly oil the pan and saute chicken breast.
Place browned breasts into the oven to finish cooking. When done, remove from oven, and set breasts aside.

Return uncleaned pan to the heat. There should be just a little fat in the pan. If not, add some. Add the diced onion and saute. Since there's the brown chicken fond in the pan, make sure you don't burn it. It may loosen with the moisture from the onions. When the fond can take no more heat (onions may not be done yet), add the cognac and flame. When flames die down, add corn kernels, and finely minced tarragon.

Reduce.

Add chicken broth, and reduce further.

While broth reduces, drain pasta. Add about 1/2 can of diced tomatoes (Progresso roasted tomatoes works well) and cook for a few minutes, stirring. Add the pasta and the roasted squash/zucchini to the pan and toss.

Cook briefly to finish the pasta if needed and add the cream. Adjust seasoning with salt and white pepper. When it reaches the proper consistency, remove from heat and stir in the butter, a little at a time.

Plate the pasta. Slice the chicken breasts, and arrange on top of the sauce. Sprinkle plate with chives.

Servings: 4
Prep Time:
By: Warren
For more info visit:
http://www.recipesonrails.com/recipes/440

Fregola with pan seared scallops

2012-01-22 13:15:29 UTC

Ingredients:

2.0 pound scallops, sea Dry only
4.0 ear Corn
0.5 pound fregola
0.25 cup Wine, White
4.0 cup Stock, Chicken
0.25 cup Cream, Heavy
2.0 tablespoon Tarragon fresh, minced

Instructions:

Preheat pan. Season scallops. Saute scallops in some butter and oil. Set scallops aside in a warm place.

Cut the corn off the cob. Mince any scallop trimmings and broken pieces. Deglaze the pan with the white wine. When almost evaporated, add the minced scallops and the corn.

Add some chicken stock about a half cup at a time.

Stir until most of the stock is absorbed (this is like a risotto). Then add some more stock and continue till pasta reaches desired degree of tenderness. If you use all the stock, you can add water. Adjust seasonings.

When the pasta is done, stir in the cream, tarragon, and juices that accumulated around the scallops.

Place some of the pasta corn mixture on the plate, and then arrange scallops on top.

Servings: 4
Prep Time:
By: Warren
For more info visit:
http://www.recipesonrails.com/recipes/611

Lobster Ravioli

2012-02-07 01:58:32 UTC

Ingredients:

0.5 pound scallops, sea
0.5 pound Lobster raw
2.0 each Egg
2.0 tablespoon Tomato Paste
0.5 cup Cream, Heavy
0.5 pound Lobster cooked, shredded
1.0 each Egg Whites mixed with water

Instructions:

Make a double recipe of the pasta.

While the dough rests, puree the raw lobster and raw scallops in the food processor. When smooth, add the two eggs, tomato paste, and salt and pepper to taste. Slowly add cream and process till thick.

Mix the diced/shredded lobster into the raw lobster and cream mixture.

Quarter the pasta dough, and roll it out trying to keep it wide. Place a portion of the filling every so often on the dough. Baste the dough, around each portion of filling with the egg white mixture.

Flip the dough over the filling...

Press the dough down, around the mounds of filling.

Cut each portion with a pastry cutter or pizza wheel.

Cook in gently boiling salted water till done, about 7 minutes. Serve with lobster sauce.

Servings: 8
Prep Time: 1 hour
By: Warren
For more info visit:
http://www.recipesonrails.com/recipes/560

Orzo With Shrimp, Mussels, and Olives

2012-02-08 15:39:16 UTC

Ingredients:

60.0 milliliter Oil, Olive
4.0 each Shallots 0r 2 large sliced
2.0 clove Garlic
2.0 pound Mussels cleaned
125.0 gram Wine, White Vermouth
500.0 gram Orzo
1000.0 gram Stock, Chicken
250.0 gram Shrimp cleaned and deveined
1.0 each Lemon Juice and zest
50.0 gram Olives, Green chopped
100.0 milliliter Parsley chopped

Instructions:

While a large pan preheats, mince the garlic, slice half the shallots and clean the mussels.

Add half the oil to the preheated pan, followed by the minced garlic and sliced shallots. Saute for about 2 minutes.

Toss in the mussels, and stir for a minute or so over medium high heat. Add the vermouth and cover. Cook, shaking the pan from time to time for a few minutes or till mussels open. Remove the mussels from the heat as they open, reserving all liquid. As mussels cool, remove them from their shells, again reserving the liquid. Strain all the liquid through a fine sieve. You want about two cups. If you're short, supplement with stock.

Add the remaining oil to the TM and process at speed 5. Quarter the remaining shallot and drop the shallot and garlic onto the turning blades and turn TM off. Set heat to 100C and process at speed 1 for 3 minutes.

Install the butterfly. Add the orzo and the reserved mussel broth. Process at 100C speed 2 for about 8 minutes or till most of the liquid is absorbed (see picture).

While orzo cooks, zest the lemon and coarsely chop the zest. Juice half the lemon (we need about 1 tablespoon. If your olives have pits, cut the meat off. Coarsely chop the olives. Mince the parsley.

Add the stock to the orzo. Adjust salt and pepper. Process at 100C for 10 minutes at speed 1. Shorten or lengthen the time to allow for orzo to be just undercooked. Add the lemon juice, lemon zest, mussels and shrimp. Process at 100C for 2 minutes, speed 1.

Stir in the parsley and olives. Plate and enjoy.

Servings: 4
Prep Time:
By: Warren
For more info visit:
http://www.recipesonrails.com/recipes/642

Swedish Meatballs

2012-02-06 13:14:27 UTC

Ingredients:

2.0 each Egg large
120.0 gram Cream, Heavy
2.0 each Bread Slices, cubed
500.0 gram Veal, ground
2.0 each Shallots Large, peeled
0.0 teaspoon Nutmeg, ground fresh grated
0.25 teaspoon allspice ground
0.25 teaspoon Pepper, Black ground
2.0 teaspoon Sugar, brown
1.0 tablespoon salt
2.0 teaspoon Baking Powder
500.0 gram Ground Chuck
2.0 cup Oil, vegetable for frying

Instructions:

Place the bread, cream and eggs into the TM.

Use a good quality sliced bread. Remove the crusts and cube the bread.

Process on speed 4 with butterfly for 10 seconds. There should be no big clumps. Pour out of TM and reserve. No need to wash bowl.

***Note, this bread and milk type of mixture is called a panade.

Remove butterfly and add quartered shallots.

Process shallots for 7 seconds at speed 8. Stop midway and scrape down.

Add veal, nutmeg, allspice, pepper, brown sugar, salt and baking powder.

*** Do NOT use butterfly (disregard picture showing it in TM)

Process at speed 4 for 2 minutes, scraping bowl midway.

Add the panade (reserved bread and cream mixture) and process for another minute at speed 4.

Turn veal mixture into a bowl and add beef. Mix with a spatula, by hand, until uniform. You do not want the beef integrated with the TM as that would affect the texture.

Shape into 1 inch (2.5 cm) meatballs.

Heat oil in a large frying pan (I use a #12 cast iron pan). Adjust the amount of oil based on the width of the pan. Heat oil to 350F (175 C) and place balls in one at a time. Fry for about 7 minutes till brown all around, turning as needed.

Remove with a slotted spoon or spyder

For an appetizer, place balls in sauce and serve. In picture, I made pasta, tossed the pasta with the sauce, and served the meatballs on top. Nice variation from the Italian version.

Servings: 6
Prep Time: 1 hour and 15 minutes
By: Warren
For more info visit:
http://www.recipesonrails.com/recipes/634