Description
Spend a day making a batch of beautiful butternut squash ravioli. Enjoy a glass of wine while you cook and pair the dish with a Sonoma-Cutrer Pinot Noir when you serve the ravioli for dinner.
Ingredients
Scale
Pasta Dough
- 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 cup semolina flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg + 2 egg yolks
- 4 tablespoons butternut squash puree
- Orange food dye optional
- water
Filling
- 1 medium butternut squash halved (seeds removed)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 cup low-fat ricotta cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon dried sage
Brown Butter Sage Sauce
- 1 stick butter
- 6 sage leaves
- 1 cup pancetta lightly fried
- 1/4 cup walnuts chopped
Instructions
Pasta Dough
- In the bowl of your food processor, combine flours, salt, eggs and yolks, and butternut squash puree. Add a couple of drops of orange food dye if desired.
- Pulse until well combined.
- Drizzle in a teaspoon of water at a time until a dough ball forms and no longer sticks to the sides of the bowl.
- Transfer to a very lightly floured surface, sprinkle top with a little flour, and cover with plastic wrap. Set aside for 30 minutes to an hour to rest.
Filling
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil.
- Place butternut squash halves on baking sheet (cut side up) and drizzle with olive oil.
- Bake until tender, about 50-60 minutes.
- Once cooked, allow to cool completely then scoop out the squash into a large bowl.
- Combine squash with ricotta, salt, pepper, and dried sage leaves. Cover and place in the refrigerator until ready to use.
To make the ravioli-
- If eating right away, boil a large pot of salted water.
- On a lightly floured surface (all-purpose flour) shape 1/4 portion of the pasta dough into a flat disk, covering the remaining dough tightly in plastic wrap.
- Run pasta through machine, beginning on setting one. Continue running the dough through the machine working your way up until setting 7.
- Carefully lay paper thin dough on floured counter top.
- Drop filling mixture by small spoonfuls onto pasta just below the midline, leaving a 2 inch space between each scoop of filling.
- Fold pasta over and press firmly in between spoonfuls of filling.
- Cut into ravioli shapes using a ravioli cutter or knife and place each ravioli onto cookie sheet lined with wax paper in a single layer, separating each layer with more wax paper.
- If freezing for later, freeze each layer individually until frozen then transfer to a large plastic freezer bag.
- If eating immediately, gently place a few raviolis at a time in boiling water and cook for 3 minutes.
- Gently strain in colander, but do not rinse.
- Place raviolis in large bowl.
Brown Butter Sage Sauce
- In a small pan, melt together butter and fresh sage leaves.
- Continue cooking butter, stirring occasionally but watching carefully, until butter is a caramel color and begins to smell nutty.
- Remove from heat and pour over ravioli.
- Toss gently and top with crispy pancetta, chopped walnuts, and parmesan cheese.
- Prep Time: 2 hours
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Main