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To prepare Italian Home Style Ravioli in Lemon - Garlic White Sauce Recipe, get prepped up with all the ingredients including chopping veggies, sorting the best baby red amaranth leaves, grated lemon peel, and cheese, and crushing peppercorns. Halve the tomatoes and whisk eggs too.

Instruction To Make Dough

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In a wide mixing bowl, add flour, salt, oil, and egg.

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Mix well with your hands and bring the flour together by adding a little water at a time and knead for 5-7 minutes to get a soft dough.

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Cover the dough with another bowl or cling wrap and refrigerate the dough for at least 2 hours.

Instruction To Make The Filling

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Crumble the cottage cheese and add finely chopped baby spinach/amaranth. Add salt, pepper and nutmeg.

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Mix well to combine and set it aside.

Instruction To Make Sauce

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Heat a wide pan with butter over low flame.

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Add the chopped garlic and onions and sauté till they turn light brown.

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Add fresh cream and keep stirring over a low flame, till it starts bubbling.

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Add the milk, black pepper, chilli flakes, and cheese.

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Once they come to a boil, add the chopped tomatoes, olives and immediately switch off.

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Now add the lemon zest, salt and set it aside.

Instruction To Make Gremolata

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Combine all the ingredients given under 'gremolata', mint leaves, parsley leaves, lemon and garlic.

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Prepare it just before adding it to the ravioli.

Instruction To Complete The Recipe

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Remove the dough from refrigerator. Lightly dust your working space. Pinch out a lemon size portion of the dough and roll it out into a thin sheet. Using a large circle shaped cookie cutters, cut the rolled sheets of dough into smaller circles.

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Spoon the filling into the center of the each circle.

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Using your finger, lightly dampen the circumference of the circle with water. Seal the edges without any gap.

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Repeat the same for the entire batch.

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You can alternately use ravioli mould to prepare dumplings.

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Boil 2 to 3 cups of water in a wide vessel and slowly drop the dumplings into the water. Within 2-3 minutes, they will start floating on the top.

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Remove the dumplings and add them to the prepared sauce.

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Sprinkle the gremolata over the ravioli and serve.

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Serve Italian Home Style Ravioli in Lemon - Garlic White Sauce Recipe is served along with slices of Mac & Cheese Crostini, Fresh Garden Salad  and a glass of wine.

Notes:

• Instead of cutting the ravioli dough into circles, you can cut them into long strips of equal sizes of about 2 inches wide.
• Spoon the 1-inch width filling into the strips with an empty dough-space of almost 1-inch to press-close dumplings. Wet the corners and place another strip on top, cut them into squares of 2 inches and seal the corners by pressing down with a fork.
• You can also use coloured bell peppers in the sauce, optionally.