Italy has an virtually limitless provide of genuine regional recipes. I like making ravioli and there are already many recipes on this weblog, each conventional and of my very own invention. After the current pleasure of constructing Tordelli alla Lucchese (from Lucca in Tuscany), I searched and found one other typical regional ravioli recipe that I had not ready earlier than: Casoncelli from Bergamo within the North of Italy. Within the native dialect they’re known as Casonsèi. The official recipe (disciplinare) for Casoncelli della Bergamasco has been deposited with the native chamber of commerce, and that’s the recipe I used to arrange these. The filling requires an extended checklist of substances, together with pork and beef, pear, raisins, amaretti cookies, cheese, and spices. They got here out with a really advanced and balanced but elegant taste. I personally thought the quantity of breadcrumbs prescribed by the disciplinare (but in addition different recipes that I discovered) is sort of excessive. It’s a technique to make the identical quantity of filling last more, however subsequent time I’ll make these I’ll use much less as I felt it diluted the flavour by an excessive amount of.
The recipe requires “floor pork to make salami”, which is floor pork (25% fats) with salt, black pepper, garlic, and pink wine. Other than the colour of the wine, it’s principally the identical as Italian sausage meat (click on right here for make that your self).
Components
Makes about 80 casoncelli, sufficient for 6-8 servings
- contemporary pasta dough made utilizing 200 grams (1 1/3 cup) Italian 00 flour, 50 grams (1/3 cup) semolina di grano duro rimacinata, 1 egg, and as a lot water as wanted
- 150 grams floor pork to make salami (see notice above)
- 125 grams breadcrumbs (see notice above)
- 105 grams finely diced pear (about 1 pear)
- 100 grams roasted beef, finely chopped
- 75 grams freshly grated grana padano (or parmigiano reggiano)
- 1 egg, crushed
- 30 grams minced raisins
- 5 grams crushed amaretti cookies
- 1/4 tsp freshly floor black pepper
- 1/4 tsp freshly floor nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp floor cinnamon
- grated zest of 1 lemon
- 1 minced garlic clove
- 1 Tbsp minced contemporary flat leaf parsley
- salt
To serve
- 250 grams butter
- 100 grams diced pancetta
- 16 leaves contemporary sage
Directions
Put together contemporary pasta dough utilizing my directions, wrap it in cling movie, and permit to relaxation for no less than half an hour within the fridge.
I used beef that it solely been cooked sous vide but (48 hours at 68C/155F) and had not been browned, so I made a decision to brown it in some butter so as to add some further taste.
Then I took the meat out of the pan and allowed it to chill, and added the diced pear to the identical pan with out cleansing it.
Stir the pear over medium warmth till it’s golden brown, then add a minced clove of garlic…
…and stir for an additional minute. Flip off the warmth and permit to chill.
When the meat has cooled, chop it finely. Put the meat and crushed amaretti in a big bowl.
Chop the raisins.
Add the raisins to the bowl, along with the pear with garlic, breadcrumbs, floor pork, cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper, salt…
…grated cheese, crushed egg, grated lemon zest, and parsley.
Stir after which knead the combination together with your arms till it’s homogeneous. Fry a little bit of the filling to check the proper seasoning, remembering that ravioli filling ought to all the time style barely too salty whenever you style it by itself. It is best to be capable of roll the filling into balls that maintain collectively. If the filling is simply too delicate, cowl it with plastic wrap and refrigerate till it has firmed up.
Roll out the dough till it is extremely skinny, use a cookie cutter or glass to chop circles with a diameter of 6-8 centimeters (about 3 inches), and use my directions for making ravioli to show the dough and filling into half moon formed ravioli. Use about 7 grams (1/2 tablespoon) of filling for every casoncello.
Give the casoncelli their attribute form by setting them upright with the open facet up and urgent down together with your thumb.
Proceed till you have got used up the entire filling.
Carry a big pot of water with salt to a boil. Within the meantime, soften butter in a big frying pan and add chopped sage and diced pancetta.
Stir over medium warmth till the butter is golden, the pancetta is considerably crispy however not fully crispy, and the sage is crispy is nicely.
Boil the casoncelli for two minutes after which carry them out of the pot with a strainer and add them to the ready butter with pancetta and sage.
When you have got added the entire casoncelli, gently toss them to cowl them with the butter, pancetta, and sage.
Serve without delay on preheated plates, sprinkled with some extra freshly grated grana padano.
Wine pairing
In Bergamo they’d pair this with a neighborhood Merlot and Cabernet mix, however I believe such a wine is simply too highly effective for the elegant style of the casoncelli. A Valpolicella could be a significantly better alternative, or an oaked white Lugana or Verdicchio.
