How to Cook Uova da Raviolo

Serves: 6

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 5 mins

Ingredients needed to make Uova da Raviolo:

For the pasta dough:

• 4 cups all purpose flour
• ½ tsp extra virgin olive oil
• 4 eggs

For the ravioli:

• ½ cup fresh spinach, blanched, drained and chopped
• 7 fresh eggs
• ½ cup whole milk ricotta
• ½ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
• 12 tbsp unsalted butter, melted and kept warm
• Pinch of ground nutmeg
• ½ small black truffle, shaved
• Salt and freshly ground white pepper to taste

Cooking instructions for Uova da Raviolo:

• To make the pasta dough, place 3 ½ cups of the flour in a bowl and crack the eggs into it.
• Drizzle olive oil over them and stir them all together until they blend thoroughly to form a smooth dough.
• Dust rest of the flour over the dough and knead them together until properly incorporated into the latter.
• Continue to knead the dough until it turns pliant and dust more flour on the surface before working with your hands for another 6 minutes.
• Wrap the slightly sticky dough with a cling film and set aside for half an hour at room temperature.
• Place both kinds of cheese in a bowl, along with spinach and ½ of the shaved truffle.
• Sprinkle a dash of seasonings as well as ground nutmeg over them and stir them all together to mix well; set aside.
• Roll the pasta dough into a thinnest possible sheet using a pasta maker and carve out twelve 6’ wide rounds.
• Arrange 6 of them on a floured baking tray and cover loosely with a plastic sheet; set aside.
• Spoon in small portion of the cheese mixture onto the middle of remaining dough circles and make a small well at the centre using the back of a spoon.
• Crack the eggs in a small bowl, one at a time, and separate the yolks from the whites.
• Place one egg yolk within each well and place one unfilled dough round on top.
• Pinch the ends together to seal and set aside.
• Boil salted water in a large pot and lower the ravioli carefully into the boiling water.
• Cook for a couple of minutes and drain them out carefully, using slotted spoon , onto serving plates.
• Drizzle rest of the melted butter over the ravioli and sprinkle remaining truffle shaving and extra parmesan cheese gratings on top.
• Serve warm.

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