Recipe Tip: Formai de Mut Ravioli with Chicken Broth
Top Recipe for 4 Persons. All ingredients and tips for getting it right. Formai de Mut is an Italian mountain cheese from Lombardy made from raw cow's milk. It makes a delicious filling for ravioli. This recipe from top Italian chef Norbert Niederkofler, of the esteemed St Hubertis restaurant in Bolzano, is simply heavenly. If you can't find Formai de Mut, a similar cheese will do the job, too.
Ingredients
- 125 mlegg yolk (from 6–8 large eggs)
- 1whole egg
- 100 gtype '00' flour, plus extra to dust
- 150 gdurum wheat semolina
- 65 gFormai de Mut cheese or similar mountain cheese, such as Gruyere
- 125 mldouble cream
- 3 gpotato starch dissolved in 1 tbsp water
- 500 mltop quality chicken stock
- 10 gchicken fat, melted
- 20fresh barberries
Instructions
Step 1
For the dough, knead all the pasta dough ingredients in a stand mixer using the dough attachment for 20 minutes or until smooth and elastic.Step 2
Shape the dough into a long, flat rectangle. Cover with a clean damp cloth and leave to rest in the fridge for 2 hours.Step 3
For the cheese filling, cut the cheese into small cubes and blend with the cream in a Thermomix at 70°C for 8 minutes. Add the potato starch dissolved in water and blend for 1 minute more. Alternatively, carefully melt the cheese and cream in a sauceapan, stirring continuously (don't let it boil) then stir in the potato flour. Pour into a bowl and allow to cool quickly.Step 4
Roll out the dough using a pasta machine, working down through the settings until it is on its thinnest setting, dusting with flour to prevent sticking. Cut the dough in half.Step 5
Using a piping bag, pipe teaspoons of the filling in lines on one piece of the pasta dough at 2cm intervals, leaving a 1cm border along each edge.Step 6
Place the other piece of dough on top, pressing the two pieces of dough together, pressing down gently to exclude any air.Step 7
Use a serrated pastry wheel tocut out the classic raviolo shapes.Step 8
Cook the ravioli in a large pan of boiling salted water for 4 minutes then carefully drain.Step 9
While they are cooking, heat the chicken stock and divide among serving bowls. Add the ravioli, drizzle over some melted chicken fat, sprinkle over the barberries and serve immediately.Step 10
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