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| Now you need to finish mixing up your filling of Ricotta Cheese, Parmesan Cheese, Basil and coarse ground black Pepper. |
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| OK, now you see here everything you need to make Raviolis. We are about half-way there now :-) |
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| Above, we have four photos of my 10 year old son demonstrating for us how to build the Ravioli. Using the pasta we have already squeezed out with the past machine (more about the pasta machine later) he is showing us here four steps. Take a precut rectangle of pasta dough (approximately 2-1/4" wide and 3-1/2" long), drop 1/4 - 1/2 tsp. of filling onto one side while leaving ample space on all sides of the filling so the ends can be sealed together. Fold it over, then squeeze the edges together with your fingers being sure that there is no filling oozing out anywhere, then with a fork press hard on the two sides basically fusing the pasta together creating a water tight seal. You don't want the filling to fall out while you are boiling the Raviolis. |
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| So when you pasta ball is done you will want to roll out the pasta so you have a 1" think mass of dough, then square off the dough with a knife and cut strips of dough about 3-1/2" long by 1" high and 1" deep. |
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| Pinch one end of the rectangular pasta dough strip that you just created so it will catch in the rollers. This is important. Set your flat pasta roller setting to "7", run it through and then set it to "3" and run it through again and this will be the perfect thickness for Revioli. |
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| Here, my wife will demonstrate. See the dough strip pinched on one end being caught by the rollers as she cranks the machine? |
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| Here she is taking the strip she just rolled out at with the "7" setting and has reset the machine to setting "3" and now she will roll it through again making it thinner, wider and longer. |
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| Here is a close up the action. |
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| ...and here it is going through the rollers one more time. |
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| After you have made some Raviolis, you will want to boil some water so you can do a test to be sure you have the correct thickness set with your pasta machine. Boil them for 10 minutes, take them out of the water with a slotted spoon, drain well... |
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| ...set them on a plate. Cut in half, check out the texture and smell. WoW! So nice! Now taste! If all is well, then you can proceed with making the other 98 Raviolis. If not, you might want to adjust the setting on your pasta machine. |
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| If you do this right, the small 3-1/2"x1"x1" strip of pasta dough on the right should turn into the nice long and thin strip of pasta dough on the left. |
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| Here is a close up to give you some idea of scale in regards to the pasta strips you will use to roll out into large strips for the Ravioli. Note, it's about 3-1/2" long. |
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| Again, here is a close giving you some scale again. We can see here that this pasta strip is about 1" high. |
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| OK, you are going to be making 100 Raviolis so get ready to work! This is a great time to enjoy your family and work together! :-) |
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