Hugh Mullan's pasta challenge recipe
Ingredients
- 1 butternut squash
- 400 g spinach
- 200 g '00' flour
- 4 eggs
- 250 ml double cream
- 3 cloves garlic
- sprig of thyme
- 50 g pecarino cheese
- 200 g marscapone cheese
Method
- Roast cubed squash until cooked/cool
- Make pasta dough with flour/eggs in food processor
- Rest
- Finely grate pecarino cheese for garnish
- Toast pinenuts
- Mix cream cheese + squash + season
- Roll the pasta into sheets + cut with a round cutter
- Brush the pasta shapes with beaten egg + add filling, + make ravioli
- Trim ravioli if needed
- Cook for 4-5 mins until al-dente
- Sweat the spinach with butter in pan
- Bring cream, garlic + thyme to the boil + add grated pecarino + season
- Plate:
- Create a bed of spinach + garlic cream
- Place ravioli on top + put pecarino shavings on top
- Sprinkle with toasted pine nuts
