Ravioli Bolognese with beef or quorn
- 2 cup 00 flour or bread flour
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 small onion, chopped finely
- 2 clove garlic - optional
- 100 grams minced beef or quorn mince
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 cup red wine - optional
- 150 grams or half a large tin of chopped tomatoes, drained
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 beef stock cube
- 1 seasoning to taste
- 1 parmesan cheese to sprinkle over your finished ravioli
- First make the pasta dough.
- In a kitchen mixer with the dough hook or by hand
- Put the flour into the bowl, crack in the egg, add the oil and start the mixer, make sure you keep pushing down any flour that rises up the bowl
- Start adding the water a little at a time and allow it to be worked into the dough fully before adding more.
- The dough should be very soft and pliable and even stick to the sides of the bowl a little, but be easy to roll off again.
- Once the dough has reached this stage knead it for a few minutes in the machine or a 10 minutes by hand until it is smooth and elastic (kneading activates the gluten and makes the dough stretchy)
- Your dough is ready to be made into sheets for the ravioli (or lasagne - if you just want the pasta)
- Twist off half the dough and start feeding it through your pasta machine on the thickest setting - if it looks over stretched, lay out on your board and rub flour into the sheet turn over and do again on the other side the fold over and put through again.
- If you're doing this by hand then roll out on a floured surface until about 5mm thick the fold into thirds (take hold of one end and fold over leaving one third exposed, then fold that end over the top)
- Whichever route you take, you hope to achieve a very workable dough, so you may have to fold, turn and roll several times
- With the machine, decrease the thickness each time until you achieve about 2mm thick strips.
- By hand roll as thin as possible.
- Next step depends if you have a ravioli tin or not.
- Flour your tin.
- Cut strips of dough to fit the tin and fill the holes with your filling of choice or place spoonfuls of filling an inch/2 1/2cm apart.
- Repeat with other half of dough - makes 20 large ravioli.
- At this point my daughter rolled the remaining pasta using powdered sugar instead of flour then filled with a mixture of chocolate pieces, peanut butter and strawberry jam to make sweet ravioli (she served it with a light chocolate sauce on the side)
- Cover with a second sheet, pressing the dough firmly between each spoonful of filling.
- Use your roller on the tin to cut between the pieces, or use a pastry crimper or knife to cut between the pieces of ravioli on your work surface.
- You should drop your pieces of ravioli into a pan of boiling water and cook for 3-4 minutes, drain then serve.
- (Make sure you brush off all the loose flour or the pasta will get too sticky)
- Make the Bolognese filling.
- This filling is quite intense in flavour and must be thick not watery.
- Add oil and onion to a small pan then gently fry over a medium heat until onion becomes transparent, then add garlic if using.
- Turn the heat up and add the beef - stir quickly until cooked through.
- Add the basil and stir in then the red wine (if using) cooking on high to reduce the wine.
- When the wine has reduced by at least half, add all of the other ingredients.
- Lower the heat and let the Bolognese simmer, crush down any large pieces of tomato.
- Taste before seasoning.
- Cool before adding to your pasta.
- Serve the ravioli with a sprinkling of parmesan cheese and a chunk of garlic bread
flour, olive oil, egg, water, olive oil, onion, clove garlic, beef, basil, red wine, tomatoes, tomato, beef, parmesan cheese
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/363635-ravioli-bolognese-with-beef-or-quorn (may not work)