Crab Ravioli Recipe
Prep Time:
1 hour,
20 minutes
- 2 ¼ cups 00 Italian pasta flour
- 4 eggs + 1 egg yolk
- ¼ cup fresh parsley
- 3 ½ ounces crab meat
- ¾ cups ricotta cheese
- juice from ½ lemon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons butter
- Place the flour on a clean surface and make a well in the middle.
- Place the eggs, including the yolk, inside the well and begin to mix them into the flour.
- Slowly incorporate the flour with the eggs until you form a uniform dough. Kneed the dough for 10 minutes and wrap in a plastic wrap, set aside for 1 hour at room temperature.
- Chop the parsley.
- Mix together the crab meat, ricotta cheese, juice of half a lemon, and chopped parsley. Put this mixture in the fridge.
- After 1 hour, divide the dough into two even pieces.
- Roll each sheet of dough out so are thin, to the point where you can see through them.
- Spoon in the crab mixture onto one of the dough sheets, 1 inch apart, then place a second pasta dough sheet on top.
- Use a ravioli cutter to cut out the ravioli (2x2 inches) and set aside.
- Bring a pot of water up to a boil and salt the water. As soon as the water is boiling, drop the ravioli pasta in and cook for 3 minutes.
- Melt the butter in the microwave.
- After 3 minutes, take out of the water pot and serve, topping with melted butter.