Healthy Recipe: DIY Ravioli Party

RECIPE BY LEANDRA ROUSE | PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAM EMMONS 

As the temperatures drop, dinner events transfer inside. What higher approach to entertain your friends than with an interactive menu? Try a DIY Ravioli Party as a approach to make each the preparation and the consuming the primary occasion! As the host, you possibly can present the pasta, a filling, and sauce to get the occasion began. Ask your friends to convey their favourite filling, sauce, or aspect. The result’s a taste-as-you-go feast that everybody will get to take part in. 

In this recipe we function our favourite shortcut ravioli shortcut: the wonton wrapper. It is a fast approach to feed a crowd and a simple method to your friends to strive. (Of course, you possibly can all the time sort out pasta from scratch.) Frozen wonton wrappers could be discovered within the Asian freezer part of most grocery shops. Once defrosted they make a foolproof noodle casing to your favourite ravioli filling. 

This recipe contains an unconventional filling—herbed pine nut “cheese”. It is exclusive, flavorful, and dairy free. However the chances are limitless. Here are just a few extra wholesome ravioli fillings:

• Chicken and mushroom
• Shiitake mushroom, inexperienced onion (spring onion), and ricotta 
• Spinach and three cheese
• Roasted cauliflower and potato
• Squash and caramelized onions
• Potato and chorizo 
• Butternut squash and sage 

As for the sauce, our end-of-season tomato sauce recipe is a traditional base—easy and brilliant. 

Other concepts are carrot prime pesto, walnut oil with shaved truffle, or a roasted garlic cream sauce. 

To put together for the occasion, make the filling upfront. Defrost the wonton wrappers and arrange a ravioli making station on a big central floor—like a kitchen island or eating room desk.  

Sprinkle the workstation with flour and set out small bowls with filling, pasta sauce, and finger bowls with water. Damp kitchen towels needs to be positioned over the wonton wrappers in between use in order that they don’t dry out. And a parchment-lined baking sheet ready upfront will assist friends to refrigerate ravioli whereas queuing as much as be cooked. 

Make serving plates and utensils simply accessible so friends can eat whereas they work. Heat a big inventory pot of water on the range so it is able to simmer ravioli as they’re constructed.  Ravioli cooks rapidly, so encourage friends to strive small batches of various mixtures. Each spherical could be served to the group and friends can style, evaluate notes, and benefit from the distinctive flavors.

Consider making a batch of ravioli forward of time so you might rapidly feed your friends and showcase the completed product for example. 

INGREDIENTS: 

For the pine nut cheese filling:

1 cup pine nuts, soaked

1 tablespoon shallot, minced 

2 tablespoon chives, minced

2 tablespoon dietary yeast

zest of 1 lemon

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1 tablespoon further virgin olive oil

½ teaspoon salt 

½ teaspoon recent floor pepper

12 to 16 oz (350g – 450g) package deal of frozen wonton wrappers, roughly 8 sheets per visitor 

2 eggs, overwhelmed 

2 cups (470ml) of ready do-it-yourself tomato pasta sauce or your favourite packaged possibility 

INSTRUCTIONS:

Up to 24 hours earlier than the occasion, put together the pine nut filling. Tomato sauce could be made far upfront and frozen till the day of. 

To make the filling, soak the pine nuts in water for six to eight hours and drain away the surplus water. Then add the soaked pine nuts, dietary yeast, lemon juice and zest, chives, and shallots to a excessive velocity blender or meals processor and mix till simply mixed. With the blender nonetheless working, slowly pour the olive oil into the combination, stopping to scrape down the perimeters as wanted throughout the mixing course of. The filling could be barely chunky to very clean, relying in your private desire. Add small quantities of heat water to the combination as wanted to realize your required consistency. Taste and season with salt and pepper as wanted. Transfer right into a small container and refrigerate till prepared to make use of. 

To assemble ravioli, lay eight wonton wrappers on the ready work floor described above. Whisk collectively the 2 eggs in a small bowl. Using a pastry brush, coat every wrapper with the egg wash. Then place one tablespoon of filling within the middle of 4 ravioli. To seal, place the extra wonton wrappers on prime to cowl the filling. Pick up the ravioli and press the perimeters along with moist fingers. Place the raviolis the wrong way up on a cookie sheet lined with parchment. A moist towel needs to be draped over them if not cooking instantly to forestall them drying out. 

To cook dinner the ravioli, convey a big stockpot of salted water to a boil over excessive warmth. Once boiling, decrease the warmth to a simmer and drop the primary batch of raviolis in. Stir gently to forestall the ravioli from sticking to one another. Cook within the light simmer for 2 to 3 minutes or till the ravioli float to the highest or puff up. 

Remove the cooked ravioli from the water with a slotted spoon and serve straight onto your friends’ plate. Two to 4 is an efficient serving measurement to start out with. Guests can choose their very own sauce, toppings, and sides as they like. Good instances!

Makes 36 ravioli or 8 servings.

NUTRITION FACTS (PER SERVING): 

Calories 320 KCal 

Protein 11 g

Total fats 15 g

Saturated fats 1.5 g

Cholesterol 50 mg

Carbs 38 g

Fiber 2 g

Total sugars 6 g

Added sugars 2 g

Sodium 730 mg