Garden Inspired Ravioli

Location:

Waterford

You have 500 characters to tell us why you should win Cheffactor:

I love food, I love eating, I love cooking, I love watching cookery programmes, I love the fact that you can grow your own food and cook it. The new series of Professional Masterchef really inspired me. The love that they had for food was amazing. They dreamt food and the techniques they used to enhance the food were amazing. I would love to learn some of those skills. What inspires me about food is how local it can be and the produce you grow yourself can make it even more satisfying.

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This dish that I have made was inspired by the beetroot that I had growing in my garden. I made a beautiful beetroot coloured pasta, the colour was so vibrant I didn’t want to turn it pink by adding a cream sauce so I made ravioli and filled them with ricotta, bacon and plenty of pepper. I just served them with butter, parmesan and a drizzle of olive oil. I served them with some roasted swede and wilted chard from my garden which added a bit of sweetness and a contrasting colour to the dish.