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Cheese and Chard Ravioli


Cheese and Chard Ravioli
Description servings: 6
calories: high
category: first
cost: high
difficulty: high
preparation time: 90
 
Ingredients For the dough
Semolina  200 gr.
Flour  200 gr.
Lard  20 gr.
Warm salted water  2 decalitres
For the filling
Fresh Pecorino cheese  700 gr.
Eggs  4
Swiss chard  500 gr.
Flour  30 gr.
Saffron  3 pinches
Salt  to taste
Pepper  to taste

For the seasoning

Ragù  400 gr.
Grated Fiore Sardo Cheese  100 gr.
Salt  to taste

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Preparation Wash and boil the Swiss chard. Squeeze and chop it up. Dissolve the saffron in a spoonful of boiling water and grate the Pecorino cheese. Put it all into a bowl and add the eggs, flour, salt and pepper. Mix well.

Prepare the dough. Sieve the flour and semolina onto a pastry board leaving a well in the middle. Put the water and the lard into the well and mix. Then work the dough for 15 minutes. Make it into a ball, cover it with a cloth and let it rest for 30 minutes. Then roll it out thinly.

On half the pastry sheet, 5 cm. one from the other, put little balls of the filling, about the size of a walnut. Fold over the other half and press inbetween, Cut out each culingionus and prepare them in a half crescent form.

Arrange them on a cloth sprinkled with semolina and cover with another cloth. Let them dry for 12 hours.

In a pot with salted water, place the culingionis and as soon as the water boils, remove them. Season them with the grated cheese and the ragù, Serve straight away.
 
The Chef's tips Cerveteri is a 13/14 ° dry white wine to be served at 8/10°C with this recipe.
 
Curiosity This type of ravioli can be found in different forms all over the region and are sometimes square, round or otherwise crescent-shape according to the tradition but always exquisite to eat.