Once you learn how to make basic pasta, you can play around with its shape, colors and flavors.
Today we decided to make a three flavor, three color goat cheese ravioli.
For the green pasta we added dehydrated spinach powder. For the red pasta we added dehydrated tomato powder and the yellow pasta was a basic pasta dough. You can also add spinach and tomato paste instead of dehydrated powder, but in this case you will diminish the amount of water added to the basic recipe in order to get the right consistency.
Once you roll out your three different doughs you want to maintain a base dough whole and the other ones you will cut into strips, as thin as you desire. You will then gently glue each strip on top of the basic dough with a bit of egg wash or water in between the layers.
You will then pass it on the pasta machine on a bigger width, about double the size of your last thickness you had rolled it off in, since you are basically laying one layer on top of the other. You will start rolling it out until the the desired thickness.
You can also just form different stuffed individual pieces of different colors and serve them all together. It will look very neat.
The pieces below are waiting to be cooked.
Once you have shaped them you do not need to keep them covered and moist, they will hydrate and cook normally once they are thrown in the boiling water.
This is what they will look like once they are cooked. Now we will add the sauce.
These are the striped ones. We served them with a light carrot Beurre Blanc and a bit of grated cheese.
I love the colors of nature.
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