My favorite soup: GARDEN RAVIOLI SOUP

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GARDEN RAVIOLI SOUP

Ingredients

6 cups Chicken broth (can use 6 chicken bouillon cubes & 6 cups of water, boil water & add cubes>chicken broth)

¼ teaspoon oregano

¼ teaspoon basil

¼ teaspoon garlic powder

½ teaspoon parsley flakes

1/8 teaspoon black pepper (2 shakes should be good enough)

1 shake red pepper (sparingly)

1 medium carrot (shredded then cut) about 1 cup

1 can (14 ½ oz) whole stewed tomatoes (cut them up, >pour into a bowl-use a knife to cut each stewed tomato(s) in half)

1 cup small cheese ravioli’s or tortellini (use half the bag, more than 1 cup)

Note: Do not add salt to soup, it will cause the soup to have a salty taste. See below: Helpful Hint.

Optional vegetables

1 zucchini skinned and sliced medium

1 yellow squash skinned and sliced medium

½ can red beans, drained (a little less than ½ a can is best)

Note: Optional vegetables should be added, enhances the taste of the garden ravioli soup

Step1

In a large pot mix chicken broth, oregano, basil, garlic powder, parsley flakes, black pepper, red pepper, shredded carrots and cut stewed tomatos.

Step 2

Cook above broth over a medium-high heat, heat to a boil. Stir while adding ingredients, until boiling.

Step 3

Add the ravioli’s. Reduce heat to a medium. Stir. Cook for 15 minutes.

Step 4

Add optional cut/sliced vegetables, cook on low for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

If the soup has a salty taste: Add 1 skinned/peeled raw potato to soup, cook for 20 minutes, this will eliminate the salty taste, then remove the potato. Stir soup. Cook an additional 5 minutes. Serve.

Helpful Hint:

If any broth/sauce/soup that tastes salty. The raw potato soaks up the excess salt and will remove the salty taste. ALWAYS cook the broth/sauce/soup with the raw skinned/peeled potato for 20 minutes, most importantly: remove and discard raw potato from broth/sauce/soup).

 
Yum, this looks great! I love the potato trick, too--also works to calm a spicy pot of chili! smileys/smile.gif

 
Hi, Ang--been cooking up a storm, since I have a lot of free time between semesters >>

Cold and wintry, here, for the last couple of weeks, so...
--pasta with roasted butternut squash sauce
--oven-fried chicken
--vegetable rice that turns out like risotto b/c of three tomatoes grated in (!amazing!)
--buckets and buckets of soup: chickpea soup w/ winter greens; soup w/ savoy cabbage, rice, and beans...
--Mom's baked orange chicken

I do a blog (sometimes food, sometimes not) at smetanasglasses.blogspot.com (will try to link it).
Thanks for asking. How about yourself? smileys/smile.gif
(With all this talk of rosti, I'm craving that, so that's on this week's list.)

http://smetanasglasses.blogspot.com

 
Lovely blog Erin. The link works fine. So this is why you have been missing. Busy blogging.

Can't wait to catch up on your doings in Prague. So very interesting. And, do you have the recipe for the Rigatoni? It sounds lovely.

 
Thanks, Ang....busy teaching--took a 3-month hiatus from me blog smileys/wink.gif Here's the Baked Rigatoni REC>>

From Food&Wine.....
Well, it's in the freezer for tomorrow night, due to family technical difficulties. smileys/wink.gif

Baked Rigatoni with Spinach, Ricotta, and Fontina Recipe
Source: Quick from Scratch - Herbs
Serves 4








A quick take on spinach and ricotta cannelloni, this baked pasta is fast because there's nothing to stuff. The filling is simply tossed with cooked rigatoni that's then topped with fontina and baked to a golden brown.

WINE RECOMMENDATION
A delicately flavored white such as Orvieto will complement the mild ricotta nicely. And, because Orvieto is not oaky, the wine has no bitter tannin to clash with the slightly bitter spinach and nutmeg.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS

1 pound rigatoni
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 10-ounce package frozen spinach, thawed
2 cups (about 1 pound) ricotta cheese
5 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon fresh-ground black pepper
6 ounces fontina cheese, grated (about 1 1/2 cups)

RECIPE METHOD

Heat the oven to 450 degrees F. Oil a 9-by-13-inch baking dish.

In a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook the rigatoni until almost done, about 12 minutes. Drain. Put the pasta in the prepared baking dish and toss with 1 tablespoon of the oil.

Meanwhile, squeeze as much of the water as possible from the spinach. Put the spinach in a food processor and puree with the ricotta, 3 tablespoons of the Parmesan, the nutmeg, salt, and pepper. Stir in half the fontina.

Stir the spinach mixture into the pasta. Top with the remaining fontina and Parmesan. Drizzle the remaining 2 tablespoons oil over the top. Bake the pasta until the top is golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes.

VARIATION

You can substitute another chunky pasta, such as penne rigate, penne, ziti, or fusilli. Boil all of these one or two minutes less.

Recipe reprinted by permission of Food and Wine. All rights reserved.

 
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