Ravioli Recipe

This is how you define Ravioli- a stuffing of meat and vegetables wrapped between the layers of pasta dough and topped up with sauce. There are umpteen ways of how a ravioli can be filled-use cheese, beef, spinach, corns, carrots, and what not! This Italian delicacy is available in the canned form and can be stored for more than a month. But why not put some efforts and try it at home? Here, we are going to let you know how vegetarian ravioli is prepared. Go through it and give your best shot in kitchen!

Semolina Flour: Half a Cup

Chickpea or Soy Flour: Half a Cup

Olive oil: A full spoon

Salt to taste

A big bowl of water

Half a kg Spinach

A broccoli, medium sized

Carrots, 3-4

   In a big bowl, add both flours: semolina and chickpea.

Sprinkle salt as per taste. Pour some and start kneading with your hands.

Make the dough smooth paste by adding more water and kneading it till it becomes elastic.

While you are doing so, adding olive oil would help making the dough easy to roll down.

Sprinkle some dry flour over the dough. This is done to avoid pasta machine getting stuck with wet dough.

Place the whole dough into the pasta machine and let it get thinned by choosing high setting.

Keep on rolling till you make it really thin: approx 1/8 inches in width.

To cut the raviolis, take a glass and keep its sharp circular edge over the rolled dough. This way, you get perfect circles. Cut all the raviolis.

Cut all the vegetables neatly.

Heat a pan with some oil in it.

Add veggies (spinach, broccoli, carrots) to it. Let the ingredients get cooked for half an hour.

As the vegetables become soft, shut down the gas, and let the stuffing cool down.

Over each circular piece of ravioli, place cooked stuffing. Keep it in the centre, i.e. do not let it touch the corners.

Lift the piece from two sides, and join them at top.

Sealing it with water won't let the vegetables come out.

Boil raviolis in water, one after the other. Boiling for 5 minutes is enough.

After they get cooked, remove them from water.

Serve them on a plate or casserole with sauce.