Ravioli With Creamy Basil & Red Pepper Sauce

Submitted by Kozmic Blues

"This sauce is so easy to prepare, and it used low fat and no fat ingredients. The roasted red peppers blended into the sauce give it a lovely pale pinkish color. I had a bag of frozen cheese ravioli in the freezer, and was looking for something other than a red sauce to serve it with. The original recipe, I believe, used fat free cream cheese, but I opted for low-fat instead. If you like to use no-fat cream cheese, please let me know how it turns out."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1 lb cheese ravioli
• 8 ounces low-fat cream cheese
• 1⁄2 cup skim milk
• 1⁄4 cup parmesan cheese, freshly grated
• 1 (14 ounce) jar roasted red peppers
• 3⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1⁄2 cup fresh basil leaf
• salt and black pepper
• crushed red pepper flakes

directions

1. In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook frozen ravioli according to package directions.
2. In the meantime, place peppers, cream cheese, milk, basil, garlic powder, Parmesan cheese, salt, pepper and/or crushed red pepper in blender and cover
3. Blend until smooth; set aside.
4. Add to a saucepan and cook over medium heat for 5 minuted or until just heated through.
5. Toss with cooked ravioli, top with extra basil leaves and/or grated cheese and serve.

Reviews

[tara portee]

This was appealing to me because it was different than a typical cream sauce and it was pretty calorie friendly. It was also very quick and easy.Also, it gave me another dish to use my abundance of fresh basil in.