Homemade Ravioli

As I announced yesterday, today’s post will be about my homemade ravioli.

Over the weekend, Josh and I made crab rangoons and had more than enough left over wonton wrappers. As luck would have it, I then came across a Pinterest recipe using the wrappers to make your own ravioli. In typical me fashion, I didn’t follow the recipe to make the filling but I did check out the length of time to cook them (in boiling water for 5 min).

So yesterday I set out to make the ravioli. I was really excited about it. I already have homemade sauce in my freezer and homemade bread dough ready to go. A fresh homemade ravioli was going to be perfect to complete the meal.

I pulled out my ingredients:

·         Left over wonton wrappers

·         Ricotta (whole container)

·         Garlic (one teaspoon)

·         Salt/pepper (to taste)

·         Spinach (two handfuls)

·         Fresh basil (8 leaves off my basil plant)

·         Shredded Parmesan (1 cup)

·         1 egg

I used my herb scissors to cut up my basil and spinach and then mixed everything together. It smelled amazing!

Then I used a cookie sheet to lay out the bottom half of my ravioli. I put a spoonful of my mixture in the center of each one and then rubbed a little water along the edges and put the top wrapper on. The water helps the dough to connect, but I also used a fork to pinch the edged shut. (I ended up with extra filling, but I will be putting that on top of our salmon tonight).

I was so excited about how my ravioli looked and couldn’t wait to share my cooking skills with my husband.

 

Unfortunately, things didn’t go well during the cooking process. The instant the raviolis hit the water, I knew something was wrong. Some of the filling began rising to the top and I didn’t have high hopes for my pasta any longer.

 

But I still waited the 5 minutes I was supposed to and then draining my ravioli. The strainer was filled with pasta and filling goop. Yet, I still grabbed a fork and tried it (looks can be deceiving right?). The filling was incredibly good, but the pasta was a gummy mush that I refused to eat. So into the trash the goop went.

Last night’s dinner ended up being saved by boxed pasta. Looking back, I think I would repeat this recipe and instead of boiling the ravioli, I would bake them. That I imagine would be way better, maybe I’ll give it a try soon.