30-Minute Baked Ravioli Recipe...
Something my mom would have made for me when I was a kid.
This little diddy is fresh off the presses. Check out my recipe (made with pork) on the Epicurious website.
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I didn’t know they had frozen ravioli, did you? I knew they had that fresh Rana type shit in the deli section of the supermarket (in the cheese aisle), but Rana is like $7 a bag. I took Mami on her monthly grocery shopping adventure. For those of you who have been here before, you know Mami prefers to get her produce from the weekly neighborhood farmers market and her meat from the neighborhood Asian market. But, most everything else she prefers to get from Walmart because it’s just more affordable for her. I don’t personally always enjoy shopping at Walmart. When I take her to do her shopping, I’ll just kind of hang out or meander the aisles to see what they have in stock (Mami’s local Walmart carries Pisqueya and Siete products), the holiday snacks and the price differences of my usual products.
Down the frozen aisle I go when I spot a bag of Great Value frozen meat ravioli for $7. Hard pass. Ooh, they had a 25 ounce bag of Great Value brand, frozen, cheese ravioli for $3. Too good of a deal to pass up on some experimenting.
I had some leftover carne molida from my “Those hot dogs they make on the side of the road in Puerto Rico” tiktok. I didn’t want to call them “Puerto Rican hot dogs” because I really don’t need the drama from the purityricans.
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I didn’t want to waste or freeze the leftover meat. I repurposed it into a meat sauce for the ravioli. A dump of my current favorite brand of jarred sauce, Carbone, shove all the meat into the skillet, amp it up with Oaktown spice shop’s italian seasoning blend and let it warm through. Dumped the whole bag of frozen ravioli into the mixture, ensuring all of the little pockets of cheesy dough were covered in sauce. Topped with cheese, more cheese and of course…more cheese.
Cooked it at 450 for 15 minutes. When the cheese looked the way I like it to look, I pulled it from the oven. And! It was actually something Mami wanted to eat. Which is a fucking small feat considering she hardly wants to eat anything these days.
Someone try it out and let me know if it’s as good as I think it is, or I’m just delusional because it cost me like $15 to make this whole thing. I probably could have just used the same sauce I make for my loaf bread pizzas, which is a can of tomato sauce, a little bit of sugar and Oaktown spice shop italian seasoning blend. Then this would have cost me like $5 to make.
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