Tuesday 26 May 2015

Chicken Confit Pasta and Roasted Garlic Lemon Sauce


Chicken Confit Pasta and 

Roasted Garlic Lemon Sauce

                Ingredients                  Yield: 4-6 Servings
  • 1 leg               Chicken Confit, finely chopped
  • 230g (1c)        Marscapone Cheese
  • 60g (1 small)   Onion, finely diced
  • 1 recipe          Pasta Dough 1
  • 1                     Egg Wash
  • 30g (1/2c)      Parmesan Cheese, grated
  • 1 head            Roasted Garlic
  • 1                     Lemon, juiced and zested
  • 15ml (1tbsp)   Heavy Cream
                Instructions
  1. Caramelize onions on medium high heat in a frying pan with a bit of oil or butter.
  2. While onions are caramelizing, peel and mash roasted garlic with a fork or mortar and pestle. Set aside for the sauce.
  3. Mix marscapone cheese, chicken confit and caramelized onions together. Season if necessary.
  4. Roll out pasta dough to desired thickness. Fold each piece in half, making a crease and cut at the crease.
  5. On one half roughly mark with desired cutter where each ravioli will be.
  6. Brush marked half with egg wash and spoon or pipe filling into the centre of each marked ravioli.
  7. Take the other half and fold over the other sheet, pressing around the filling to ensure that there is no air in the ravioli. 
  8. Cut with cutter and place on a tray dusted with semolina to prevent sticking. Continue until all pasta is made.
  9. Have a pot of boiling water, seasoned with salt, ready to cook pasta.
  10. In a frying pan on medium high heat with a little bit of olive oil, add roasted garlic and break apart the garlic.
  11. Mix in lemon juice until well combined.
  12. Add in Parmesan and turn off the heat. Mix until the cheese has melted.
  13. Cook pasta in boiling water for 2-3 minutes.
  14. Finish the sauce by adding in lemon zest and cream. Season to taste.
  15. Remove pasta from water and set to the side.
  16. Add 60ml (1/4c)of the pasta water to the sauce to thin out. Add pasta to sauce and toss to coat.
  17. Serve, garnish and enjoy!
Check out the video!!

Pasta Dough 1

Chicken Confit

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