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Wild Mushroom Ravioli with Sage Brown Butter and Roasted Walnuts

Wild Mushroom Ravioli with Sage Brown Butter


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  • Author: Stine Mari | Ginger with Spice
  • Total Time: 5 hours 15 minutes
  • Yield: 6 people 1x

Description

It's savory mushroom, comforting pasta and nutty brown butter and walnuts. Even sage brings fall to the table since it's often used in Thanksgiving turkey stuffings. Hello comfort food!


Ingredients

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Pasta Dough

  • 2 cups all purpose flour (290 grams)
  • 2 large eggs
  • 6 egg yolks*
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Wild Mushroom Ravioli Filling

  • 1/2 cup chopped bacon, omit for vegetarian (125 grams)
  • 7 cups wild mushroom, e.g., chanterelle or porcini (400 grams)
  • 2 tablespoons butter (if needed)
  • 4 shallot onion, finely chopped
  • 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, or 1/2 tsp dry
  • 5 tablespoons sherry, or white wine (85 milliliters)
  • 6 tablespoons heavy cream (100 milliliters)
  • salt and pepper, to taste. More salt if no bacon.

Sage Brown Butter + Toppings

  • 1/3 cup cubed butter (100 grams)
  • 3 tablespoon fresh sage, leave whole if you want more crisp
  • handful walnuts, coarsley chopped
  • fresh thyme, for garnish (optional)

Instructions

Pasta Dough

  1. Mix all the ingredients and process in a food processor for 45 seconds, until it's barely tacky to the touch. Use the chopping knife blade of your food processor. Add more flour or olive oil/water if you need to.
  2. On a dry surface - knead the dough until smooth (2 min), make a cylinder, cut into 6 pieces and wrap in foil and rest in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours. This makes the gluten relax and that in return makes it easier to roll out.
  3. When you are rolling out the dough; cover the dough you are not working with. Press the dough into a 7 cm (3 in) square with your fingers. Roll with a rolling pin, 15 cm (6 in) square. Dust just a tiny amount of flour on both sides of the dough, and roll it into 1mm thick (0.04 in). You should be able to see your fingers behind it if you hold it to the light. Start to cut the pasta into 8 cm (3+ in) circles. I used a 8 cm cookie cutter. Place all the discs in one layer at a parchment paper.

Wild Mushroom Ravioli Filling

  1. Cook the pieces of bacon until brown but not crispy, set aside but reserve bacon fat.
  2. After the mushroom has been brushed clean of any dirt and cut into small bite sized pieces, add them into a non-stick saucepan with the bacon fat. Add butter if you need more fat in the pan. Add in the finely chopped shallot onion and cook until translucent, about 5 minutes.
  3. Now add in thyme, salt and pepper, sherry** and heavy cream. Give it a boil and reduce to simmer until it thickens, about 10 minutes. We don't want a very liquidy mixture, as this is going into a ravioli.

Sage Brown Butter

  1. Cut your butter into smaller sized pieces so the butter melts evenly. Add it in the pan (with a light bottom so you can see the browning action happening), and melt on medium high heat. The butter will begin to bubble, this is normal.
  2. Add in sage. Leave htem whole if you want more crisp. Stir occasionally to check the browning level. Once the butter smells really nutty and it has a lot of brown bits in it, you can take it off the heat. It is these brown bits that tastes nutty, so don't leave them out when you are pouring it over your wild mushroom ravioli.

Cooking the Ravioli

  1. Add one small tablespoon of the thickened ravioli filling in the center of each pasta disc. Fold the dough around the filling and press the edges tightly together. Do this with the rest of the filling and pasta discs.
  2. Cook the raviolis in a large saucepan with salted water. Cook them for around 2-4 minutes. Once the raviolis float to the surface, they are done. Pour the ravioli into a colander and drain the pasta water.
  3. While the raviolis are cooking, dry roast coarsley chopped walnuts. Just pour them into a dry non stick pan and roast on medium high heat until you can smell the nutty deliciousness, a couple of minutes.
  4. Place the wild mushroom ravioli on plates. Pour the sage brown butter over, drizzle with walnuts and garnish with fresh thyme!

Notes

* The leftover egg whites are perfect for macarons or pavlova!

** If you don't have sherry, using the same amount of white wine works good too. I used Manzanilla sherry, which is pretty similar to white wine.

Pasta recipe adapted from: Cook's Illustrated

  • Prep Time: 45 minutes
  • Inactive Time: 4 hours
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Category: Main Courses
  • Cuisine: Italian

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1/6
  • Calories: 669
  • Sugar: 2.2
  • Sodium: 1038
  • Fat: 45.7
  • Saturated Fat: 20.9
  • Carbohydrates: 43
  • Fiber: 2.9
  • Protein: 21
  • Cholesterol: 364