How to cook ravioli with mushrooms

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Italian cuisine is gaining more and more fans. Its symbols are pizza and all kinds of pasta, and a feature of the menu is the presence of a large number of seafood, vegetables and fruits, meats and cheeses of various varieties.

The article will show you how to make delicious Italian mushroom ravioli.

What is this

Italian ravioli is a dough product with various fillings. They resemble Russian dumplings, Asian manti or Ukrainian dumplings, but differ in shape and method of modeling. Italians are jealous of their cuisine and do not like it when their ravioli with mushrooms, meat, fish, vegetables or fruits are confused, for example, with dumplings.

The article tells how to cook this national Italian dish. So, we sculpt and serve ravioli with mushrooms.

Ingredients

This dish is very easy to prepare. A novice cook can handle this too. The process is simple, and the result is a dish with great taste, which can be served both for lunch and for a festive meal.table. So, the ingredients you will need:

• wheat flour of the highest grade - one and a half glasses;
• vegetable oil - five tablespoons (two for dough, three for frying);
• water - fifty grams;
• chicken eggs - two or three pieces;
• oyster mushrooms - two hundred and fifty grams;
• s alt, ground black pepper - to taste;
• sour cream of any fat content - half a glass.

As you can see, the products for this dish can be bought at any store at an affordable price.

Filling

Oyster mushrooms should be washed in cold water, finely chopped. Pour vegetable oil into a preheated frying pan and put the mushrooms, s alt and pepper a little. Fry them until tender over medium heat until all the liquid has evaporated. It will take 10-15 minutes.

After transfer the mushrooms to a blender and chop until gruel, s alt and pepper to taste. Mushroom ravioli filling is ready.

Sculpting Features

Now you need to prepare unleavened dough. To do this, add a good pinch of s alt to the sifted flour, mix. Make a well in the flour, pour vegetable oil, water and eggs into it. Knead the dough. Patiently knead it until elastic and elastic. If it sticks to your hands, you need to add a little flour, but if the dough turned out to be too steep, vegetable oil is added to it. The finished dough is wrapped in cling film (you can use a regular plastic bag) and put in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

After a while, take the dough out of the refrigerator,roll it out very thin. Put the minced mushroom on the first half (1.5-2 teaspoons, no more), cover with the second half. Press lightly over the entire layer, pinch the edges. Then cut the dough into squares with a curly knife. The semi-finished product is ready. Products can be boiled immediately or, sprinkled with flour, put in the freezer.

The main rule: ravioli can be of different shapes (square, crescent or ellipse), but always with a curly cut edge.

Preparation and serving

Ravioli with mushrooms, the recipe of which is given in the article, can be boiled or fried.

Boil products in s alted water or vegetable broth until tender (10 minutes) over medium heat. They can also be pan-fried in butter or deep-fried.

Serve ravioli as an independent dish with sour cream or any sauce, broth, sprinkled with green onions, dill or parsley. You can sprinkle hot products with finely grated cheese. Sweet ravioli are served with liquid honey.

Possible toppings

Delicious ravioli with cheese and mushrooms. Preparing the cheese-mushroom filling is very simple: you need to add finely grated cheese to the mushroom gruel. Italians traditionally add spicy cheese, but this is a matter of taste.

In general, you can stuff ravioli with different minced meat: meat or fish, with the addition of chopped vegetables - onions, carrots, cabbage, potatoes. A good alternative is hard cheese or cottage cheese.

Do you knowthat ravioli can be prepared for dessert by stuffing them with fruits or berries? Italian chefs even use chocolate filling!

Little secrets

• Real Italian mushroom ravioli cooked in olive oil only.
• Chicken eggs can be replaced with quail eggs at the rate of 1:5.
• In this recipe, oyster mushrooms were used for the filling, but you can take any mushrooms - champignons, boletus, mushrooms, porcini, chanterelles.
• Ravioli can be fried when they are filled with ready-to-eat stuffing. If raw minced meat is used, then it is better to boil the products.
• The dough for ravioli is quite elastic, so it does not stick together well. In this case, the housewives resort to a little trick: beat the egg, then brush the surface of the thinly rolled dough with a culinary brush, and only then spread the filling. The egg in this case acts as glue.
• Italians say that you need to cook with a smile and a good mood, then any dish will turn out delicious!

Now you know how to make mushroom ravioli. Photos of this dish are presented in the article.