Chicken Stuffed Ravioli

About this Recipe...

Ravioli is a Italian stuffed pasta dish with various kind of stuffing. You can really play with the stuffing on this dish to suit your taste buds. Here I made a simple yet very delicious stuffing for my ravioli with minced chicken. It has all the homemade goodness and gourmet taste which takes this dish to another level.
I love all kind of Italian dish especially pastas and homemade ravioli is one of them. Making the ravioli pasta at home without pasta maker is really easy, though it is little time consuming but the pleasure of eating homemade fresh ravioli is something different. Make this Italian dish at home and serve it with your choice of pasta sauce, either marinara, Béchamel or pesto sauce. Here I have served my ravioli with simple marinara sauce and it makes it a complete divine meal. All you need is this dish, a glass of wine and romantic music on the background to make a perfect dinner date with your loved one at your home.

Ingredients

For Stuffing

• 1 Cup Minced chicken
• 2 Tbsp Olive Oil
• 1/2 Cup Chopped Onion
• 1 Tbsp Chopped garlic
• Salt to taste
• Black pepper powder to taste
• 1 tsp Cajun spice mix
• 1 Tbsp Fresh parsley chopped

For Ravioli Pasta

• 1/2 Cups All purpose flour
• 1 Egg
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 Tbsp Olive Oil

Directions

Chicken Stuffing

1. Heat olive oil in a pan and add chopped onion to it.
2. Sauté the onion till it gets translucent and then add garlic to it.
3. Sauté the garlic for couple of minutes.
4. Now add the minced chicken to it and fry it.
5. Add salt, pepper, Cajun spice mix and mix everything well.
6. Fry the chicken nicely till it cooked fully. Finally add the chopped parsley to it, give a quick mix and switch off the flame.
   

Ravioli Pasta

1. Take all purpose flour in a mixing bowl, add salt and olive oil to it and mix it.
2. Now make a well on the centre, break the egg and add on to it.
3. Slowly mix the egg and the flour mixture. Add some water to it and knead a dough until elastic and smooth.
4. Now drizzle some oil on the dough and wrap it with a plastic wrap.
5. Let rest the dough for 30 minutes.
6. After 30 minutes take the dough and divide it to equal portions.
7. Now dust some flour on your work counter and roll one divided ball with a rolling pin to a thin circle.
8. Now with the help of a round cutter cut it into small circles.
   
9. Now place the stuffing on the centre of it and apply some water on all the edges.
   
10. Now take another round circle and place it on top of it and seal it. Take a fork and mark impression on the sides of the ravioli.
    
11. Repeat the same step for rest of dough to make remaining ravioli.
12. Now boil water on a large pot and season the water with salt and 1 tsp oil.
13. When water start boiling, slowly add 3-4 ravioli pasta on boiling water.
    
14. When the pasta will start floating on water then take it out from water and serve the pasta with your favorite pasta sauce.