DesignGeek

Jamie Oliver has these really nice recipes in his cook books for making your own pasta. Even though I love cooking I never tried it so far. It looks like quite a bit of effort for not a lot of outcomes. But since the outcomes of my weekend tasks matters less then the fun I had a go at it and I made my own ravioli.

I followed Jamie’s recipe and made dough out of 500g of very fine flour and 5 eggs. On the bench top I made a mould with the flour and placed all the eggs in the middle.

With my hands I mixed it all together till I had a nice dough which I kneaded for another 3 minutes. I wrapped it in cling film to let it rest in the fridge and started with the filling

After the dough was rested for about an hour I rolled it out with a pasta machine till I had nice thin sheets.

According to Jamie Oliver I can stuff pretty much anything into ravioli. So I created my own filling out of roasted pumpkins, rocket and ricotta.

The second filling I made out of dried tomatoes, basil and pecorino.

I placed a spoon full of my filling in the middle, put a second sheet on top and stuck it all together, so the edges are perfectly sealed. I made only a few ravioli as they were quite big.

To cook my ravioli I put them straight into boiling salted water. Fresh ravioli cook very fast and only take a few minutes. I only added a bit of extra virgin olive oil and some salt and pepper to serve them.

My ravioli were simply delicious! Try it ourself.