Sweet Cherry And Chickpea Ravioli Recipes

Steps:

• Melt semisweet chocolate and unsweetened chocolate in the top of a double boiler or in a bowl in the microwave. Stir until smooth. Set aside to cool. Heat the 2 cups shortening in a large, heavy skillet or deep fryer.
• In a small bowl, stir together the pureed garbanzo beans, sugar, and cinnamon. Stir in the dates and nuts. Blend with the cooled chocolate. Chill while you make the dough.
• In a medium bowl, beat the eggs until fluffy. Stir in the 1/4 cup melted shortening. Sift together the flour, sugar, and salt, and fold into the egg mixture. Add extra flour if necessary to make the dough easy to handle.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into 3 inch circles using a cookie cutter or a large drinking glass. Place 1 teaspoon of the chocolate filling mixture onto the center of each cookie, fold over into a half circle, and pinch to seal.
• Fry cookies in 1 1/2 inches of hot oil, turning once. Cookies should be light brown. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Refrigerate when cool. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar before serving.

Steps:

• For Dough: In a large bowl, combine all dough ingredients except egg yolk (set aside yolk for eggwash); knead with hands to form smooth, soft dough. Cover bowl with plastic wrap; let rest 15 minutes. For Filling: In a bowl, mash chickpeas with a fork. Add jam, chocolate, sugar, zest, salt and cinnamon; stir to combine. Heat oven to 350º with rack in middle. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Divide dough into 4 pieces. Rewrap 3 pieces in plastic wrap. Flatten unwrapped dough so that it will fit through the rollers of a pasta machine. Set rollers of pasta machine at the widest setting, then feed dough through rollers once. Continue to roll dough through machine, decreasing the setting one notch at a time (do not fold or turn pasta), until 1/16- inch thick. Transfer to a lightly floured work surface. With long side of dough facing you, drop tablespoonfuls of filling alongside lower half of dough, spacing mounds 1 inch apart, then fold top half of dough over filling. Press out air from around filling mounds, then, using a fluted pastry wheel, trim pasta along its length and cut between mounds into 2-inch squares; gently press down edges of ravioli to seal. Arrange ravioli on prepared baking sheet, at least 1 inch apart. Repeat with remaining dough and filling. In a small bowl, beat together remaining egg yolk and 1 tablespoon tepid water. Brush ravioli with egg wash. Bake, rotating pan once halfway through, until lightly golden, about 20 minutes. Let ravioli cool slightly, then dust with confectioners sugar. Serve warm. - See more at: http://lacucinaitalianamagazine.com/recipe/sweet-cherry-and-chickpea-ravioli#sthash.AwD8tjqj.dpuf