Pumpkin ravioli with rabbit sauce and Vernaccia for Christmas Menu
The “Consorzio della denominazione di San Gimignano” invited some
food bloggers to create a Christmas Menu combining the Vernaccia di San Gimignano to their recipes. The result is really good. Thank you for this beautiful review.
Pumpkin ravioli with rabbit sauce
INGREDIENTS
Rabbit meat 350g – 1 celery
1 carrot – 1 onion
sage leaves and sprigs of rosemary
2 glasses of Vernaccia di San Gimignano
salt and pepper – extra virgin olive oil
pumpkin 250 gr
1 medium potato about 60 gr – 2 eggs
200 grams of flour
romano Cheese – pinch of sugar
Cut the rabbit meat boned previously. Put it in a pan over high heat with celery, carrot, onion, finely chopped, a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and cook for about 5 minutes. Add salt, pinch of sugar, rosemary, sage and cook for another 2 minutes.
Remove the herbs to add the two glasses of white wine. Reduce heat and simmer for about an hour.
Meanwhile clean the pumpkin and put it on a plate with olive oil, sage and rosemary. Bake in oven preheated to 100 ° already and cook.
When cooked let it cool slightly and mix it with the previously boiled potato. Mash the pumpkin and potato with a fork and season with salt and pepper. Your filling is ready. For the dough on a table make a fountain with about 200 grams of flour and add two eggs and make your pastry. Once done let it stand in a bowl for 10 minutes.
Pull for good with a rolling pin and / or with the machine the thin sheet, make circles with a pasta bowl and put inside a teaspoon of the filling of pumpkin.
Close and seal the dough with a fork. Cook the ravioli in salted water. Drain and toss in the pan with the sauce, add a light chopped sage. Implanted and sprinkled with pecorino cheese and pepper just.
Food paring with Vernaccia di San Gimignano Poggioaicieli
Author
Luciana Cilemmi
Luciana Cilemmi, deals with Magazine, Style Director and Co-founder of Tenuta Torciano winery and Tenute Giachi wines and the innovative Viviarium Restaurant of Bottega Torciano- Tenuta Torciano & Winery is part of an international reality that is born in Italy by an initiative of Pierluigi Giachi and Luciana Cilemmi, who have worked for years in the Italian wine market , expanding throughout in the United States, managed and controlled by the american company ' Bellavini winery. Luciana Cilemmi was born in San Gimignano to a family of artists specialised in the restoration of medieval buildings. Having completed her technical studies, she now pursues the interests passed on to her by her family, like her passion for artistic objects, in particular works of art created in Tuscany between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. But she reserves her keenest enthusiasm for the historic works completed in San Gimignano between 1100 and 1300. Alongside her love of medieval history, she is fascinated in wines produced from Tuscan vineyards, which, together with saffron and wool, were the most sought-after goods traded by the wealthy noble families of San Gimignano already in medieval times. Luciana Cilemmi left San Gimignano at the age of 21 and embarked on a pilgrimage in search of knowledge and to discover the new winemaking skills and products that were then developing both in Italy and in France. In the meantime she added to her knowledge of wine by attending specialised courses and becoming a master of wine. On returning to Siena, she discovered a wonderful area near Murlo where she fell in love with the tiny, unspoilt village of Montepescini. She bought the estate of Montepescini where, based on the experience she had acquired over the years, she found a particular lie of the land, special climatic conditions and an altitude suited to the creation of great wines. With enormous enthusiasm, doggedness and considerable effort, a reclamation programme was started to renew the terrain which was then used to plant 30 hectares of specialised vines. Sangiovese is the dominant vine, followed by Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. Years of experimentation and the introduction of new winemaking techniques eventually led to the creation of Luciana di Memmi’s prestigious wines. Some years ago, Luciana Cilemmi succeeded in realising her dream of a lifetime: to return to her home town, San Gimignano. She was destined to buy the historic palace with the medieval tower, which had been owned by the prestigious Useppi family from 1200 to 1927 and had then passed to the noble and historic Chigi family of Siena. The Useppi were a powerful Sienese family who owned several castles. This beautiful medieval building has an elegant and distinctive façade full of Sienese and Pisan architectural influences. If you find yourself in San Gimignano, make sure you visit the Chigi Tower and Palace. Luciana Cilemmi holds regular events in the rooms of the medieval tower, such as the presentation of wines, both from her vineyards and elsewhere, attended by international journalists, experts from the sector and critics. She also organises exhibitions of works of art and paintings, and press conferences on the subject of "Wine in San Gimignano during medieval times”. Visiting the home of Luciana Cilemmi is like re-living an aspect of the past that will not return except through the imagination of those who have believed and continue to believe in this story.
