Crispy Ravioli

crispy ravioli

Fried ravioli, a popular appetizer in St. Louis, Missouri, is breaded and deep-fried pasta stuffed with healthy spinach ricotta mixture.

Ingredients

Pasta dough                             as required

Whisked egg                             as required

Oil                                            to fry

Butter                                       to pan fry

For filling

Blanched and cut spinach          ½ cup

Mustard powder                        1 pinch

Ricotta cheese                          ¼ cup

Salt                                          to taste

Method

For pasta dough

In a bowl, add refined flour, egg and mix it then add milk and make soft dough and rest it for 10 minutes.

For filling

In a bowl add chopped blanched spinach, mustard powder, ricotta cheese and mix well.

add spinach, ricotta cheese, mustard powder

Now take portion from dough and roll out in thin flat round.

Then cut in small rounds with the help of round cutter.

cut small rounds

Put whisked egg on all small rounds.

put egg on round

Put the filling on few rounds.

put filling on round

Then cover with other rounds.

cover with other round

Heat oil and butter in a pan.

Deep fry these stuffed rounds till light brown and the butter becomes brown.

frying ravioli

Remove them on plate.

In the same hot butter add sliced tomato, salt.

add tomato in butter

Then take out skin and put on fried round and garnish with parsley.

place cooked tomato on fried ravioli