There is a reason that my blog is named shoes, ravioli and palmtrees and I as I have mentioned before
it´s because I LOVE ravioli and always will. It´s my favorite food and I could live on ravioli for a whole year and not get bored of it.
So it is only normal that I post my first and not last ravioli post which reveals my homemade ravioli recipe. Hope you like it ;)
How to make homemade ravioli.
The things you will need are:
*pasta maker
*baking paper
*bowl with water
*kitchen brush
*two spoons
*a little roll to separate the ravioli cubes.
*a fork
*oven plate and a dish towel (to put the ravioli on)
*Ravioli filling (can be anyone you like)
*pasta dough
How to make pasta dough:
*5 eggs
*500g fl wheat
Mix the wheat and eggs together in a food-processor and then knead the dough together with your hands for about 10 minutes. Then wrap it tightly in a plastic film and keep the dough in the fridge for an hour before you use it.
How to. . .
1. you cut the dough into six little pieces and then put it into the pasta maker (I recommend only making three strips in a row then putting the other half of the dough into the fridge while your are finishing them and then do the other three) . . .
2. . . . until they look like this. Then you use the kitchen brush and lightly brush some water over the strips (be careful to not put too much water, then they get sticky and hard to work with)
3. Then just start putting the filling in little dots over the strips and with enough space between them and only on one half of the strip. . .
The filling I used is:
*Spinach
*Ricotta cheese
*parmesan cheese
*salt and pepper
There is not a certain amount of everything that goes into the filling you just taste it every once in a while and fix it after what you think.
Then you just mix it all together in a food processor.
4. . . .until they look like this.
5. Then you put the other half of the strip over the half the the filling and press between them and use a roll that you can use to roll around all of the fillings and make many little cubes that have the filling in the middle.
6. Like this.
7. then you just separate them
8. After that you use a fork to press down the sides of the cubes like shown on the picture and that is to make certain that the filling wont get out when you boil the ravioli.
9. Then lay them down in the oven plate put the dish towel over them and under so they wont stick to the oven plate or dry.
Finally you just pop them in a large pot when the water has boiled and keep them there for 6-7 minutes or until you feel they are ready.
And voila!
There you have the best (in my opinion) homemade ravioli in you can imagine.
I recommend serving the ravioli with your favorite pasta sauce and a lot of baguette and parmesan cheese.
Enjoy :)
