I've been making pasta for some time now but never tried a ravioli and have always wanted to make it but thought it was too technical to pull off. Made a few the other day as I had some extra pasta sheets laying around after making lasagnas for my business as well as some leftover chili beef that I had made earlier.
Here's how it turned out. Not too smooth around the edges and looks more like Chinese dumplings rather than raviolis but I guess my next try would be better. It was fun to make and delicious to eat.
Here I'll share the recipe to make the dough which is pretty standard classic pasta dough recipe.
Ingredients you'll need:
All purpose flour (or tipo AA flour for a finer end result)
Eggs
Yep basically 2 ingredients is all you need to make some homemade pasta. I also have a manual pasta machine but you would use a rolling pin to roll out your pasta sheets as well.
The recipe is simple. For every 100g of flour, you'll need 1 large egg to bind. But pasta dough is really forgiving and slightly wetter or dryer dough wouldn't really matter as long as it can be kneed. I use a machine but if you do it by hand you'll need to combine the flour and egg mixture together and then kneed it for around 15-20 minutes.
400g of flour and 4 eggs will give you a serving of roughly 8 portions of pasta depending on what size of eater you are.
Kneed the dough until it's smooth of the surface like so. Press it with your thumb and the indentation should slowly fade; you've got yourself a springy and firm texture to work with later. Wrap it in cling film and let it rest for 20 minutes.
You could make raviolis but of course this dough is extremely versatile and you could use it for basically any of your favorite Italian noodles whether it's linguine, spaghetti, lasagna sheets, or even shape them into other shapes like tortelini.
Hope this is helpful and gets you making pasta at home. Super easy and super delicious.
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