Fresh Pasta Ravioli Dinner for Valentine's Day

Making pasta. Raviolis ready to dry in the dehydrator.
















We bought a pasta maker at Goodwill for $4.99! One of the nice manual ones that really works.

Vegan Noodle Recipe Pasta Dough
3 cups flour
1 cup warm water
2 tbs olive oil
Put it in the food processor with the dough blade until it forms a ball and starts to clean the sides of the bowl.
Turn it out on a lightly floured board and knead it for about 10 minutes, until you have a smooth, silky ball.
Place dough ball in a lightly greased bowl to rest for 30 minutes.

Form the dough with your pasta machine or with your hands. I'm not gonna go all technical with a description on how to make noodles, ok? I will say that this machine makes fresh, home made pasta possible. I have made it with my hands before and that is a waste of time, IMO. This machine is fantastic.















Filling was vegetables, Gimme Lean and seed cheese.















Vegetable Filling for Vegan Ravioli
1 medium white onion, chopped
3 or 4 cloves garlic, chopped
2 roma tomatoes, pureed
1/2 cup broccoli, chopped
pinch of salt
Sautee onion and garlic in a little oil and broth until very soft
Add pureed tomato and broccoli and cook until tender and most of the liquid is gone.

Sunflower seed cheese
1 cup soaked sunflower seeds
1 tsp paprika
1 tbs nutritional yeast
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbs olive oil
all in food processor until a thick paste
Add water a tbs at a time as needed and scrape the sides often.

Gimme Lean sausage is broken up into 1/2 tsp sized chunks and heated in a skillet until it begins to brown.

I thawed the frozen tube in the dehydrator, 95F for about an hour.















This is about 2" of the tube broken in chunks and heated in skillet w a tsp of oil until browned.















Each ravioli contains about a 1/2 tsp each of vegetables, cheese and sausage. Don't overfill.





























I started making them in sheets then remembered that I had the press. Much easier.















Let the raviolis sit and dry out in a warm place. I put mine in the dehydrator at 95F for about 1 hour.

Just before serving place each ravioli in a large pot of boiling water, do not crowd. Boil for 5 minutes or less, it doesn't take too long for the fresh pasta to cook up.

Serve with marinara sauce.

1 chopped onion
3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
4 tomatoes pureed
1 cup chopped fresh mushrooms
1 tbs Italian seasoning
Water or broth as needed.
Saute onion and garlic
Add tomatoes, mushrooms and seasoning
Add about 1/2 cup water
Simmer until thick and delicious
Salt if needed.


We also made some fettuccine and some linguine.
The linguine was just like fresh ramen. I used to live on ramen noodles and haven't had it a LONG time so homemade ramen was quite a treat.














The extra raviolis, enough for at least two more meals, were dried and put in a big ziplock in the freezer.

To be completely honest with you, in all the excitement last night we forgot to take photos of the plates. They were beautiful. I made roasted sweet potato and yam with black pepper and an organic red leaf lettuce salad with spicy pickles.
These photos were just taken today and with a different sauce.