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Ricotta and Chard Ravioli with Butter and Sage Dressing

Another day, another fresh pasta recipe! This vegetarian filled ravioli with butter and sage dressing

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Ethna:

Fresh pasta has most definitely become a family favorite during lockdown, and being a vegetarian household, we are always looking for options to spice...

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If you love fresh handmade pasta, chances are you've already enjoyed the Spinach and ricotta filling version of ravioli. But did you know you can do a similar version using nutritious, tasty Swiss chard?  One of wintertime's most rewarding green leafy vegetable options, the effort put into making fresh filled pasta will be paid off with the glorious flavors and aromas of this classic yet contemporary Italian fresh pasta recipe.

A quick filling to pull together, if you prepare your fresh ravioli dough in advance, you'll find this fresh pasta dish comes together quicker than you might think a classic fresh ravioli recipe would.  Simple ingredients and minimum cooking bring Italy's delicious fresh pasta recipes to your dinner table.

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Ingredients

for 4 servings

Homemade Ravioli Dough

  • All-purpose flour 300 grams
  • All-purpose flour 300 grams
  • Egg 3 cup
  • Salt 2 pinch
  • Extra-virgin olive oil 1 table-spoon

Butter and Fresh Sage Dressing

  • Butter 80 grams
  • Sage (Leaves) 15

Ricotta and Chard Ravioli Filling Ingredients

  • Ricotta cheese (Sheep's Milk) 400 grams
  • Swiss chard (Bunch) 600 grams
  • Parmesan cheese (Grated) 4 table-spoon
  • Extra-virgin olive oil as needed
  • Salt and Pepper as needed
  • Lemon Zest as needed

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Preparation

for 4 servings

Step

1

Of 4

For the filling

Blanch the spinach or chard in just a little water (you don’t want them floating, if using spinach you can cook them with the water left on from washing them) for a few minutes.  Drain well and cool. 
When cool enough to handle, squeeze well to remove excess liquid (a sushi mat works very well for this purpose) and chop as finely as possible. Drain ricotta very well. 
Either pass through a sieve or work with a wooden spoon to smooth the cheese.  
Mix ricotta with greens, Parmesan, lemon zest or marjoram leaves, and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Make a homogeneous and rather consistent mixture.

Step

2

Of 4

For the homemade pasta

Sift flours on a working surface, and form into a mound.  Make a well in the center. Break in eggs, add a pinch of salt, and beat lightly with a fork; gently draw in the flour without allowing eggs to escape. Once eggs blended with flour and no liquid remains, start to knead the dough, until soft and elastic, and isn't sticky any longer. Work with clean hands (brush off any dry bits of flour) and eventually dust hands with more semolina to avoid sticking. After about ten minutes, once the dough is smooth and silky, wrap in plastic wrap or in a cloth and let rest for 20 minutes. 

After the dough has rested, you can roll it with a rolling pin or with a pasta machine. Divide the ball in 2-3 pieces; keeping the pieces not currently being worked with covered (to avoid the dough from drying out).  If using a rolling pin, roll the dough out on a floured board to reach 1-2 mm thickness. Work from the center out, until you have an even surface. Regardless of the rolling method, it's important to work the dough well, rolling and stretching to desired thickness. 

If using a machine, pass at first through the thickest setting, 2-3 times, folding the dough over itself.  Keep moving on to next settings, rolling the dough through each of them until the second thinnest setting, in order to have thin sheets of dough.  Cut stretched dough into strips, either using the pasta machine cutter or by hand.  

There are two different methods available for shaping ravioli with this filling:  

1.  make long stripes, about 10 cm large, and lay on a floured board. Place small mounds of filling evenly spaced apart (about 3 cm) all along the stripe; then cover with another pasta stripe and press with your fingers all around the filling. This will push the air out and seal the pasta. Generally it must be done quickly, otherwise fresh pasta dries out, and it becomes hard to close ravioli (if needed, you can brush the sides of the stripe with a little egg wash made  from 1 egg white). Cut ravioli out with a roller cutter, leaving about 1-2 cm of pasta around the filling.
2.  Alternatively, you can make larger stripes, place the filling on the longer side closer to you and fold the dough over onto the filling. Then proceed as above to shape and cut ravioli.

Using a round cookie cutter (8-9 cm) to cut pasta circles, spoon a heaping teaspoon of the filling onto the bottom part of each circle of dough (slightly off the center).  Fold each circle over in half; then pinch the edges together with a fork to seal ravioli. 

Arrange ravioli on a tray as the shapes are formed, sprinkle with some semolina, without overlapping them, until you have used all of the dough.


 

Step

3

Of 4

For the Dressing

Shred the sage leaves into small pieces, using your fingers. 
In a medium sauté' pan, melt the butter to a golden color into a pan with the sage, until the pieces become crispy.
Or, for a deeper flavor, allow the butter to turn a darker brown color when adding the sage leaves.  


 

Step

4

Of 4

Cook the pasta and finish the dish

Cook ravioli in a large pot of boiling salted water, for about 5 minutes.
Remove them gently with a slotted spoon and immediately add to the sauté pan, and toss to coat well with butter.
Serve with grated Parmesan on top.


 

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Reviews

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Ethna Tuesday 23rd of February 2021

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Fresh pasta has most definitely become a family favorite during lockdown, and being a vegetarian household, we are always looking for options to spice it up a bit. We all absolutely loved these ravioli!!

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