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Making ravioli

Making Ravioli

Making your own ravioli is easy and fun. Fill with your families favorites for dinner tonight, or freeze a batch for later.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 24 Ravioli

Ingredients

Pasta Dough

  • 1 pound basic pasta dough
  • Filling of your choice

Spinach and Ricotta Filling (Fills about one dozen large ravioli)

  • 1 cup spinach chopped (fresh or frozen, thawed and drained)
  • 4 ounces ricotta cheese
  • 1 egg
  • pinch of nutmeg

Crab and Ricotta Filling (Fills about one dozen large ravioli)

  • 8 oz crab meat (lump or imitation)
  • 4 oz ricotta cheese
  • 1 egg
  • 1/8 teaspoon tarragon

Method

Pasta Dough

  1. Roll out pasta dough on a lightly floured board to about 1/8” thickness with a rolling pin or pasta machine.
  2. Lay out the sheets of pasta on a lightly floured surface. Using a spoon place the filling in piles in the center of the dough. Be sure to space them far enough apart.
  3. Cover the filling with a second sheet of pasta, working the dough around the mounds to eliminate as much of the air pocket as possible.
  4. The pasta can be cut using a ravioli cutter, or with a knife. If you cut the shapes by hand use a fork or finger to crimp the edges together. I used different shape cutters to easily identify the two fillings.
  5. Work the scraps of the dough back into a ball and roll again. (The dough can be worked several time before it becomes too dry to use).

Spinach and Ricotta Filling

  1. Chop spinach and mix with ricotta. Whisk egg in a separate bowl. Add egg and nutmeg to spinach and mix well.
  2. Chill for thirty minutes.

Crab and Ricotta Filling

  1. Flake the crab meat and mix with ricotta. Whisk egg in a separate bowl. Add egg and tarragon to crab and mix well.
  2. Chill for thirty minutes.

Cooks Notes

Basic Pasta Dough Recipe

Ravioli are easy to freeze. Cover a sheet pan with parchment paper and place it in your freezer. Move the ravioli onto the paper and freeze for several hours before transferring into storage bags. The frozen ravioli will thaw quickly and can be either boiled or baked to serve.