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Ravioli del Plin

  • Advanced
  • 1 h 30 m
  • roughly 3 of 4 for cost

rich · umami-deep · warm-spiced · nutty-toasted Leads with richness that coats and comforts, savory depth stacked from the pantry’s bass notes, closing toasted and warm.

Ingredients

  • 250g 00 flour
  • 8 egg yolks (150g)
  • 1 whole egg (50g)
  • 4g salt
  • 200g roast veal or pork shoulder, cooled
  • 120g roast rabbit or chicken thigh, cooled
  • 150g cooked spinach, squeezed dry
  • 60g Parmigiano Reggiano, grated
  • 1 egg, to bind the filling
  • 1g grated nutmeg
  • 80g unsalted butter
  • 6 sage leaves
  • 40g roasting juices
  • Salt and black pepper

Equipment

Piping bag · Grater / zester

The skills inside

Kneading doughRoasting in a hot ovenSalted water & the float testSalting to draw the water outResting dough: the pause that does the work

The words inside

Parmigiano-Reggiano00 FlourSpinach

Allergen screen

Found: gluten · dairy · egg

Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.

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Method

  1. Work the yolks, whole egg and salt into the flour, knead 10 minutes until the surface turns silky, then wrap and rest 1 hour. A yolk dough is dry, and without that rest it cracks along the edges on the pin. 10 min
  2. Mince the roast meats fine with the spinach, then bind with the egg, Parmigiano, nutmeg, salt and pepper. It should hold its shape on a spoon rather than slump.
  3. Roll one sheet to about 0.8mm, thin enough to read print through. Pipe hazelnut-sized mounds in a line 1cm from the long edge, then fold the near edge over them.
  4. Pinch hard between each mound with thumb and forefinger, pushing the trapped air out sideways as you go. That pinch, the plin, is the entire seal. Cut through each pinch with a fluted wheel.
  5. Cook 90 seconds in salted water, then finish in butter foamed with sage and the roasting juices until the sauce clings and the pasta darkens a shade.

How to tell it is going right

This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the techniques it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.

Salting to draw the water out 41 recipes

  • Salted evenly over every surface rather than tipped on in one place and tossed once.
  • Laid out so the water has somewhere to go: a colander, a rack, or a sieve over a bowl, never a flat dish where it sits back in what it gave up.
  • Given real time, and there is visible liquid to show for it: a pool underneath, a drip, or a wrung handful.
  • That liquid is removed. It is squeezed, blotted or poured away, and the food is dry to the touch before it goes anywhere near heat.
  • The dish is seasoned knowing salt has already gone on, tasted before any more is added.

Where it goes wrong It went into the dish still wet, and was salted again out of habit. The water it was carrying dilutes and steams whatever it meets, so the result is watery and over-seasoned at once, and those are two faults that cannot be corrected in the same direction.

Roasting in a hot oven 56 recipes

  • The oven was fully up to heat before anything went in, given time beyond the indicator light rather than judged by it.
  • Every piece has air around it. Nothing touches its neighbour and nothing is packed to the edge of the tray, because crowded food steams itself in its own moisture and never browns.
  • Colour is even across the whole tray, the tray having been turned at least once: no pale row at the back and no dark row at the front.
  • It came out BEFORE the target temperature, not at it. Carryover keeps driving the inside up by several degrees after it leaves the oven, and that rise is part of the cooking rather than an error in it.
  • The temperature was read at the coldest part rather than the easiest one to reach, and read again after the rest.

Where it goes wrong The tray was crowded, or the oven was not truly up to heat. The food releases steam faster than a cool box can carry it away, so it sits pale and slack, and the extra minutes spent chasing colour take the inside well past where it should have stopped.

At the Table

The Pour
Riesling or Grenache
Also Right
Cru Beaujolais
From the Taps
Farmhouse saison
Zero-Proof
Cloudy apple juice, chilled

Pork loves fruit and gentle sweetness: orchard-note whites and low-tannin reds flatter it where heavy oak flattens.

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