Sweet Potato and Spinach Ravioli

Noodles:
3 Cups Flour
1 Egg
Warm water -- about 1/2 cup?

Put the flour in a mixing bowl, make a little hollow for the egg. Mix the egg in as much as you can, then start adding the water slowly until the dough is knead-able and knead it to make it smooth. I put too much water in and the dough was very sticky, but to fix it I added a little more flour and it worked out great. When it's mixed together thoroughly, put it back in the bowl and set aside while you work on the filling.

For the filling, I chose a sweet potato and spinach base because that's what I had in the kitchen. It would have been delicious if I had added some cheese (ricotta or feta seem the most fitting) but I had none on hand.

Filling:
1 Medium sweet potato
1/2 cup frozen spinach (or fresh if you have it)
2 tbsp hummus (mine was sun-dried tomato and basil! yum!)

Cook the potato, my preference is by poking some holes with a fork and putting it in my microwave on "potato." Boiling it works, but I like the shortcut. Peel and mash the potato into a small skillet with the spinach and the hummus, cooking it at medium low 'til it is mixed together well.

Making the Ravioli:
Roll out the dough on a floured board, as thin as you can get it. Cut the dough into the shape you want your pasta, I used a drinking glass to make circles for mine. Fill a large pot with water and set it on high to boil it. Then, take a small spoonful of the filling and put it between two pieces of noodle, crimping the edges with a fork. Repeat til you've filled up all the ravioli. I made ten large raviolis, and had a little filling and a little noodle-dough left over. Boil the finished ravioli's in the water (with a little oil) til done, for me this was about ten minutes.

I heated up some tomato sauce with the leftover spinach and potato filling to serve on top, which was delicious. We also had a salad with Italian dressing and crunchy onion salad-toppings to finish off the meal. Yum!

For the next time: use cheese. roll dough thinner for pasta. make garlic bread to go with it.

Travis' rating: 5 stars! Yay!