Heart Shaped Ravioli and Basil Pesto

A simple homemade pasta recipe for heart shaped ravioli, stuffed with ricotta and spinach filling. A light and creamy pasta to make and share.

Course dinner, lunch

Cuisine Italian

Keyword homemade pasta, pasta

Prep Time 45

Cook Time 15

Total Time 1

Servings people

Calories 391kcal

Author Jen

Ingredients

For the pasta

4 large eggs
3 ½ cups all purpose flour
½ teaspoon olive oil extra virgin
flour for dusting

For the filling

300 g traditional ricotta cheese
5 oz spinach
salt and pepper

Instructions

For the pasta

Mound the flour on a clean surface, like a volcano. Dig a "well" in the middle of the flour
Crack the eggs into the well. Add the oil.
Use a fork to beat the eggs and begin pulling flour into the eggs. Continue mixing together the flour and eggs.
Once the dough comes together, knead until it forms a silky and smooth dough...about 10 minutes.
Wrap in plastic wrap and let rest at room temperature for 30 minutes to an hour.
Once rested, divide dough in 4 portions and use pasta machine to form sheets of pasta for the ravioli.
Feed pasta into machine starting with the smallest number setting (the largest opening size), gradually moving to about a number 6 (smaller opening size)...it should be thin enough to see your hand through the pasta sheets.

For the filling

Finely chop spinach in a food processor and add to ricotta cheese, salt and pepper in a medium sized bowl.
Set aside to be used in pasta.
Find the step by step instructions for how to create the pasta is below...

Notes

Nutrition info is to be used as a rough guide only. Nutrition info is based on the products I am using and you may not be using the same products/brands. Thus, the nutrition info may vary.

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