Crab Ravioli Recipe
Prep Time:
1 hour, 20 minutes
Cook Time:
3 minutes
Servings:
1 Serving
Ingredients
  • 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
Directions
  1. Place the flour on a clean surface and make a well in the middle.
  2. Place the eggs, including the yolk, inside the well and begin to mix them into the flour.
  3. 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.
  4. Chop the parsley.
  5. Mix together the crab meat, ricotta cheese, juice of half a lemon, and chopped parsley. Put this mixture in the fridge.
  6. After 1 hour, divide the dough into two even pieces.
  7. Roll each sheet of dough out so are thin, to the point where you can see through them.
  8. Spoon in the crab mixture onto one of the dough sheets, 1 inch apart, then place a second pasta dough sheet on top.
  9. Use a ravioli cutter to cut out the ravioli (2x2 inches) and set aside.
  10. 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.
  11. Melt the butter in the microwave.
  12. After 3 minutes, take out of the water pot and serve, topping with melted butter.