Cep ravioli with roasted nuts and sage butter

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cep mushroom ravioli recipe — Cep ravioli with roasted nuts and sage butter
This dish is a firm favourite in The Raymond Blanc Cookery School

Serves2

Preparation10 Mins

Cooking Time10 Mins

This vegetarian mushroom ravioli recipe is a firm favourite in The Raymond Blanc Cookery School. I created it when I was working as a guest chef in the cookery school of the beautiful Villa San Michele in Tuscany.

The star ingredient is the magnificent cep mushroom (or cepe in France). It also goes by the name king bolete, penny bun and porcini. It has a distinct aroma like fermented dough. Aside from truffles, a cep is one of the most prized finds for the forager because it is meaty, rich and very versatile.

The pasta can be prepared a day in advance and keep tightly wrapped in cling film in the fridge. The ravioli can be assembled a few hours in advance.

Ingredients Required

For the pasta

4 x: Sheets of pasta 60x10 cm

For the filling

20g: Butter, unsalted

30g: Shallot, medium, finely chopped

300g: Fresh cep mushrooms, trimmed, cleaned with a damp cloth and cut into small dice 3mm

1 pinch: Sea salt & freshly ground black pepper

1/4: Lemon juice

For the sauce

40g: Butter, unsalted

4: Sage leaves, finely chopped

10g: Pine nuts, toasted golden brown in a

10g: Hazelnuts, oven (170°C), 10 mins, lightly crushed

80ml: Water or brown chicken stock (see basic recipe)

1/4: Lemon juice

For the garnish

200g: Ceps, sliced or quartered

20g: Butter, unsalted

1 pinch: Salt

1 pinch: Pepper

1 dash: Lemon juice

8: Deep fried sage leaves and aged parmesan flakes

Cooking Method

Step 1

In a medium sauté pan over a low heat, soften the shallot in the butter for 2 minutes until translucent, add the diced ceps and cook over a high heat, stirring continuously for 2 minutes. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Remove from the heat, add a dash of lemon juice, and cool down.

Step 2

Filling the ravioli

Lay one pasta sheet on a clean surface. Lightly place a teaspoon of the filling in mounds at intervals along the centre. You will have 7 mounds per sheet. Ensure that a gap of 4cm is maintained between each mound.

Take a second sheet and drape it loosely over, pressing around the mounds of filling with the back of your thumbs to seal. Ensure there are no air bubbles and that the two layers of pasta are compressed into a thin layer (1mm).

To make the task of cutting out the ravioli easier, cover the pasta with cling film and with an inverted 7cm cutter, press down around the mounds to compress the layers of pasta.

Lift the cling film and, using the sharp side of the cutter, cut out the ravioli.

Reserve them on a cling-filmed tray dusted with semolina to prevent them from sticking.

Repeat for the other two strips of pasta. You will have 2 extra ravioli in reserve.

Step 3

For the sauce

Cooking the pasta

Heat the butter to the beurre noisette stage and add the chopped sage, toasted pine nuts and hazelnuts, water or brown chicken stock and, last, the lemon juice to create an emulsion.

Reserve and keep warm.

Cook the ravioli in plenty of boiling salted water for 4 minutes.

With a large slotted spoon, lift the ravioli onto a small tray lined with a cloth to drain.

Step 4

For the garnish

Pan-fry the ceps in the butter for 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and a dash of lemon juice.

Step 5

To serve

Place three ravioli on each plate, and spoon the sauce and ceps over them. Arrange two sage leaves on each plate. Grate aged parmesan over the dish.

Step 6

Variations

See Pumpkin ravioli, Agnolotti.

Chef tips

If you are unable to find cep mushrooms you can use chestnut mushrooms or a wild mushroom mix.

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Cep ravioli with roasted nuts and sage butter

Ingredients Required

For the pasta

For the filling

For the sauce

For the garnish

Cooking Method

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

Step 6

Chef tips

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