Have you ever tried making your own pasta? I was challenged to make my own ravioli, from scratch, and I have to be honest and say this made me very nervous. I can whip up a cake or follow a recipe with pretty good results but the idea of making my own ravioli from flour and eggs was slightly scary.
Fortunately I was provided with the 00 grade pasta flour, a Lakeland ravioli stamper and the ASK Italian recipe book. Yesterday afternoon I gathered all the ingredients and set to work.
I made the ravioli in a couple of stages. First of all I made the pasta dough.
The recipe for ravioli called for pasta flour, semolina flour and eggs. I couldn’t get hold of semolina flour anywhere so eventually gave up looking for it and made the pasta dough without it. The recipe also only gave instructions for using a food processor and manual pasta machine neither of which I had, so I was beginning to wonder what I had got myself in to!
Anyway, I just went for it and made the pasta dough and left it wrapped in clingfilm to chill. Whilst it was chilling I made the filling which was spinach and ricotta.
A little later I assembled the meal. First I finished the ravioli; rolling out the dough, filling the little parcels and cutting them out with my ravioli stamper. I left them to dry for 30 minutes, turning them regularly. So far, so good.
Then I made the sauce with peas, spinach leaves, white wine and creme fraiche. Whilst this was simmering away I dropped the ravioli in a pan of boiling water or a couple of minutes. I was very relieved to watch them cook and stay in one piece!
The final step was to remove the ravioli and stir them into the sauce for a couple of minutes before serving.
I couldn’t quite believe we sat down to enjoy another delicious Italian meal. The Ravioli di Spinaci e Ricotta was delicious and I was pleased that I had made it all from scratch. It did require some effort but you can make ravioli without a pasta maker!
Disclosure – I’ve been working with ASK Italian over the last few weeks on their campaign to #respectthepasta and the pasta, ravioli stamper and cook book were provided as part of this.
Great blog post I look forward to them all x
Oh wow this is amazing thank you for sharing .z
Ooh well done, that does look lovely. I have never attempted to make my own pasta
That looks delicious. I do love homemade pasta, not that I attempt it very often!
I love ravioli and that sounds delicious, I have never been brave a ouch to try making my own! thinking I needed machines and the like! but you have proved that isn’t the case, so I should give it a go shouldn’t I!
This looks very tasty 🙂 I’ve not made homemade pasta for years. Maybe I should have a go at this recipe. Thanks for sharing.
This is one thing I’ve never done – make my own pasta. As you say, it’s always slightly scared me! This looks awesome though 🙂 We are huge fans of pasta in our house.
Wow that’s a pretty amazing achievement! I would have been terrified of even trying this so well done you – I bet it felt amazing to eat your own handmade ravioli 🙂
That looks amazing! I tried to make pasta once and it was awful!! Obviously I need to follow the recipe you did 🙂
I saw a similar ravioli maker stamp in lakeland , such a good idea. Your ravioli looks delicious.
I’d love to try this – just think of all the fillings x x
These look amazing. I haven’t yet made my own pasta, but am hoping to soon. You’ve made what sounds like a really tricky task look pretty simple!
That looks so yummy, but I am such a bad cook I don’t think mine would look like that x
yum! this has been on my to try list for ages! really mjust give it a go
I have never made my own pasta but would love to give this a go. Spinach and ricotta is one of my favourite fillings. Did you roll the dough out with a rolling pin?
Ella (6) saw this post as she was doing her hair for school this morning and we now have to make our own homemade ravioli!
Thank you for posting this post. Its lovely to find out how to make ravioli without a pasta maker – I often wondered. I may try this at the weekend. Thank you 🙂
we really need to get ravioli stamper… we are doing it by hands atm and finishing with a fork 🙁
Thats really clever, never though of making my own before
Fab idea, we love Ravoli but never made it. I will pin this for when i have time to try
Wow! I have never made pasta from scratch, find it scary tbh. This looks marvellous and worth a try.