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2022-06-09 - Cooking - Pasta

Ingredients and Equipment Needed

Dough


Pesto Sauce


Ravioli Filling


Recipe

Make the dough first beacuse it needs to sit for 30 minutes

  1. Mix flour and salt together
  2. Beat eggs and egg yolks and add to the flour
  3. Mix until fully incorporated then knead for about 10 minutes- should be firm but not too grainy
  4. Wrap in plastic wrap and let sit for 30 minutes

While dough sits start with the Pesto Sauce needed for the filling

  1. Combine all the pesto ingredients into blender/food processor and let'er rip [I used a blender and just make sure it doesn't purée the mixture]
  2. That's it, make sure it tastes good by making sure it doesn't need some extra salt

Making the Filling

  1. Mix your pesto, the ricotta, and the mozzarella together
  2. That's it! Cooking is easy-peazy

Back to the dough and putting everything together

  1. Use the pasta roller or rolling pin to flatten the dough into a sheet [add some flour to your rolling device so the dough doesn't get stuck or sticky]
  2. Cut out ravioli sized squares [whatever your heart says that size is]
  3. Put a dollop of your filling in the middle of one of your squares
  4. Very lightly wet the edges of the square with the dollop and another square [makes the edges sticky again]
  5. Lay the undolloped square on top the dolloped square and gently pinch the edges together
  6. Then use a fork to smoosh the edges more and give them a classic ravioli look
  7. Bring a pot of water to a boil and cook a few of the ravioli at a time for about 4 minutes [they can stick together if they touch while cooking which isn't too big of a deal but crowding is generally a bad idea from my xp]
  8. Then plate and add a tiny bit of butter and Parmesan.
  9. Eat the food

Log

I really dislike dried pasta. I feel like a lot of recipes say to cook pasta al dente but, if dried, you get a hard, chalky, stale center. I also think that making your own pasta dough is typically fast, easy, and tastes infinitely better.

Given this is my first Cooking post [my first anything other than Web Development post actually], I'll preface it with my experience with cooking [or the lack thereof]. In all honesty, I just recently started cooking regularly. In the past I would get inspired to cook something but get discouraged when it didn't turn out as good as I wanted [even if the liars in my life said it was good], and would go back to grabbing Taco Bell after work. Recently I decided that cooking should be approached like any other skill - starting at the basics and following guides until you gain the knowledge and confidence to experiment [and filled with feeling like you are terrible regardless of how much you progress]. So because I still am very much a beginner, I'll be following a lot of online recipes until I gain the confidence to refactor dishes for myself.

With that out of the way, I'll continue onto one of the meals I made this week.

I found a recipe for Easy Homemade Pesto Ravioli which used store bought pesto sauce and the link to the ravioli dough 404'd. So because I knew I wanted to make my own dough [given my rant at the start] I thought why not keep everything Homemade, including the pesto sauce.

So I found the recipe for ravioli dough and pesto sauce and put all three of these recipes together.

It turned out pretty tasty and I especially like having the light butter as the sauce topping as I always felt the whole point of ravioli was to have the flavor come from the stuffing and not the sauce on top.

I realize how stupid I am now for not taking pictures of the process so you can judge if you think it looks good but uhhh... yeah. I didn't take any pictures so I guess you just have to trust me that it was good.