Gluten-free ravioli with beetroot filling

Gluten-free ravioli with beetroot filling

gluten free ravioli beetroot filling portion

Yes, I did publish a ravioli recipe last week, but today it is time for the sequel! Once I published pumpkin and vegan ricotta ravioli last Friday, all hell broke loose. I got inundated with questions about how to make the same dish but without gluten.

The beauty of running a blog is that it allows you to respond to your audience pretty immediately, so as you guys were writing to me on Facebook, I quickly did an audit of my gluten-free flours and contacted my supplier asking if they have xanthan gum (you cannot do without it I’m afraid) in stock. I was in luck!

As soon I got my hands on it, I got to work on the dough. It came together pretty easily and I was pleasantly surprised by its pasta-like texture. When I asked Duncan to taste test it he said he would have trouble telling this gluten-free ravioli dough apart from the one made with wheat flour.

Although less elastic than the gluten dough and slightly less easy to work with (making it a day ahead helps with this), it is certainly possible to achieve delicate, see-through ravioli out of this gluten-free dough. So go for gold and roll this baby out as thinly as you can. If you get it right, your gluten-free guests will be convinced you simply got them at some fancy Italian deli in town 😉 .

For vegan ravioli made with wheat flour, see THIS RECIPE.

gluten free ravioli beetroot filling making
gluten free ravioli beetroot filling before sealing

gluten free ravioli beetroot filling sealing edges

gluten free ravioli beetroot filling crimping

gluten free ravioli beetroot filling crimped

gluten free ravioli cross section

makes
60
PREP
90 min
COOKING
30 min
makes
60
PREPARATION
90 min
COOKING
30 min
INGREDIENTS

GLUTEN-FREE PASTA* (for non GF dough see THIS RECIPE)

FILLING

  • 250 g / 0.5 lb raw beetroots
  • 110 g / 1 cup walnut pieces
  • 1 head of garlic
  • 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, more to taste
  • ½ tsp dry rosemary, pounded to powder in pestle & mortar
  • approx. 1 tsp salt
  • black pepper, to taste
  • between ½-1 cup GF breadcrumbs OR GF ground crackers

FOR SERVING (optional)

  • rosemary salt**
  • 1-2 garlic cloves, sliced thinly
  • a drizzle of walnut OR extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 lemon, zest
  • handful of pine nuts, toasted

METHOD
FILLING

  1. Heat up the oven to 200° C / 390° F. Wash the beetroots and wrap them in a big piece of kitchen foil adding a few tablespoons of water to the bottom of the parcel. Cut the top of the garlic head off, drizzle the exposed garlic cloves with a bit of olive oil and wrap in a separate piece of kitchen foil. Place both beetroots and garlic in the pre-heated oven. Bake the garlic head for about 35-40 mins and beetroots until tender (depending on their size it can take between 60 and 90 mins).
  2. Once beetroots are cool enough to handle, peel them with your fingers and chop roughly.
  3. Toast walnut pieces on a dry frying pan until lightly browned and fragrant.
  4. If using crackers to thicken the filling, pop them in the food processor and grind finely. Remove from the food processor and set aside.
  5. Place toasted walnuts in a food processor and process until you get a fine crumb. Add peeled and roughly chopped beetroot, add squeezed out roasted garlic cloves (I used the entire head, but adjust to taste) and process until you get a fine paste. Season with salt, pepper, lemon juice and rosemary.
  6. Thicken the filling with breadcrumbs or ground up crackers and adjust seasoning. Basically, you don’t want the filling too wet as it will be difficult to work with.

DOUGH

  1. In a mixing bowl, combine both flours, tapioca starch, xanthan gum and turmeric. Add olive oil and rub it into the dry ingredients with your fingers. Mix aquafaba in and start kneading. To begin with, it may look seem like the dough needs more moisture but hold off without adding any more – the dough should become the right consistency after a little bit of kneading. Rest it for 30 mins or so.
  2. Roll the dough out with a rolling pin on a lightly floured surface. Roll it out as thin as you can (2-3 mm) – the thinner the dough the tastier the ravioli.
  3. Use a 5 cm / 2″ cookie cutter or an upside down glass to cut out circles of the dough. Place about a teaspoon of filling on half of the cut out circles. Place another circle on top and drape it around the filling, taking care not to trap any air pockets inside. Seal the two circles of dough with your fingers. If you want them to look like mine, go around each raviolo and crimp the sealed edges with the end of a fork. Put the finished dumplings on a tray dusted with rice flour and cover them with a kitchen towel while making the rest so that they don’t dry out. Continue in the same way until you have used up all the dough and / or all the filling.
  4. Bring a medium pot of water to boil. Once the water boils, place 5-6 ravioli (it’s important not to overcrowd the pot) in the boiling water and cook, on a rolling boil, for about 5 minutes. After the time is up, fish cooked ravioli out with a slotted spoon, shaking excess water off gently, and place them on a plate. Cook all the remaining ravioli in this way.
  5. To serve, sauté 2 cloves of garlic in a bit of olive oil. Baste the ravioli in the garlic oil gently. Serve with a sprinkling of rosemary salt, lemon zest and some toasted pine nuts.

NOTES
For this application, aquafaba needs to be reduced to resemble egg whites in consistency. To reduce it simply simmer it (with no lid on) on the stove until excess water content evaporates and the remaining liquid becomes thick and ALMOST like egg whites. Once reduced, cool the aquafaba down completely before using.

*I found that it is best to make this dough a day ahead and keep it in the fridge overnight. It makes it easier to work with and you’ll be able to roll it thinner with less effort.

**To make rosemary salt, pound a good pinch of coarse sea salt with a pinch of dried rosemary in a pestle and mortar until you get a fine powder. Et voilà!

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NUTRITIONAL INFO
calories
44
2%
sugars
0 g
0%
fats
3 g
4%
saturates
0 g
1%
proteins
1 g
2%
carbs
5 g
2%
*per raviolo
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REVIEWS & QUESTIONS
Mathilda:
Can I replace Tapioca starch with something else? I don't want to use Tapioca since it's risky that you can be poison of this.
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Mathilda,
    You could try arrowroot or cornflour, but full disclaimer - I have not tried either in this recipe. As far as I know it's only raw cassava root that can be poisonous, not tapioca flour, which is heavily processed. Hope that helps! Ania
Sarah:
HI there!
Could I use annother flour other than buckwheat?
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Sarah,
    I haven't tried myself so it's hard to make a reliable suggestion. I would say that you could probably replace the first 3 flours with an all purpose (or pasta if you can find it) GF flour mix and also skip xanthan gum if the said mix already contains it, which is likely. Hope that helps! Ania
Karla:
Hi! Is there any way to substitute the buckwheat flour?
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Karla,
    I haven't tried with any other flour, I'm afraid. Which flour did you have in mind? Ania
katja:
Hi! I would like to use egg whites instead of aquafaba. How many egg whites do you recommend? . And also... what can I use insted of xhantam gum? Thanks, Katja
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Katja,
    As you can imagine I'm not an egg expert as I have been vegan for a while now ;) but my guess is that I would use one whole egg instead of the aquafaba that I used. As for xhantam gum, I think it is pretty crucial in gluten-free dough (it gives it elasticity) and I don't know of any reliable replacement, I'm afraid. Hope that helps, Ania
Bethany @ athletic avocado:
WOW these ravioli are so so beautiful! I would love to make them for a dinner party and wow my guests! Great idea :)
    Ania
    Ania:
    Thanks, Bethany! So nice to hear that! Hope you will and that your guests will swoon over them ;)
Dawn:
How would these stand up to freezing? Could you make up a batch to the stage just before cooking and freeze them?
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Dawn,
    I have not tried myself but I'm pretty sure they will freeze well - they are no different to regular ravioli really. I would cook them all, cool them and then freeze so that all you have to do before serving is pan-fry them lightly in some garlic-infused olive oil. Hope that helps! Ania
    Courtney:
    I make them freeze on a tray before baking. Then when I would like them I pull them out while the water boils and put them in. When they float they are done
Daniela:
Thank you for the recipe! I give you a pointer on ravioli making: roll 2 sheets, put the filling on one in rows and cover with the other sheet. With your fingertips flatten the top around the filling and then cut them in squares. Less work and no trimmings that need to be re-kneaded and reused! Thanks again.
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