Vegan ravioli with pumpkin and ricotta

Vegan ravioli with pumpkin and ricotta

vegan ravioli pumpkin vegan ricotta

Autumn is here. The fields are heavy with pumpkins, there is a bit of a chill in the air and our cat, hardly ever to be seen in summer, keeps on sneaking into the house in search of a warm place to sleep. It usually ends up being Duncan’s jumper lying on a chair or a freshly washed kitchen towel 😉 . Cats, eh? ‘What are you so upset about, hooman, it’s just a piece of cloth!?’

My autumn thing is making dumplings, my ultimate comfort food. I spent most of my childhood sitting at my gran’s kitchen table watching her fingers crimp hundreds of little parcels of deliciousness. She was a dumpling queen and I’m determined to keep this dumpling tradition going.

Today’s dumplings aren’t what I used to eat as a kid though. They are a bit more refined. I combined my love for dumplings with my love for pumpkin and made a big batch (60 to be exact) of vegan ravioli filled with sweet and spicy pumpkin filling and tangy ricotta cheese I published a few weeks back.

These vegan ravioli are really special and even though, as any dumplings, they require a fair bit of work, they are so worth it! Plate them up for your guests and you’ll suddenly find yourself with lots more people asking for their dinner invite…oops…Don’t worry, with some practice you can probably pump out 120 of these every hour 😉 …

For vegan AND glute-free ravioli, see THIS RECIPE.

making vegan ravioli with pumpkin and ricotta

uncooked vegan ravioli with pumpkin and ricotta

vegan ravioli before cooking

vegan ravioli cross section

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

PASTA (for GF dough see THIS RECIPE)

  • 300 g / 10.5 oz 00 flour* (see NOTES)
  • 1/3 tsp turmeric
  • ½ cup + 2 tbsp / 150 ml reduced aquafaba, (see NOTES)

FILLING

  • 2 cups roasted pumpkin cubes (I used butternut pumpkin), 2 lb / 900 g raw
  • 2 tbsp olive oil, plus more for serving
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice / apple cider vinegar, more to taste
  • chilli flakes, to taste
  • salt & pepper
  • ½ portion vegan ricotta cheese** (optional, see NOTES)

FOR SERVING (optional)

  • 2 garlic cloves, sliced thinly
  • 1 lemon, zest
  • chilli flakes
METHOD
  1. In a mixing bowl, combine flour and turmeric. Add aquafaba and mix it into the flour. The dough will need a bit of water to come together (we used 2 tbsp / 30 ml), but be careful not to add too much as this will give you a dough that is too wet. Knead the dough for at least 5 mins and then set aside for 60 minutes under a damp kitchen towel so that the dough doesn’t dry up.
  2. Heat up 2 tbsp olive oil in a pan. Saute chopped garlic until soft and fragrant. Chop cooled pumpkin finely or blitz it in a food processor and add it to the garlic. Mix the garlic in well, season the mixture with salt & pepper, lemon juice and chilli to taste. There is no need to cook the filling as the pumpkin has already been roasted, so just make sure the mixture is well seasoned and set aside.
  3. Once the dough has had a chance to rest, take a portion of the dough (1/3 for example) and roll it 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. You can obviously use a pasta machine to roll out your dough if you have one.
  4. 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 (I used ½ tsp pumpkin filling and ½ tsp of my vegan ricotta) 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 lightly floured surface 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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 salt, lemon zest and some more chilli if you wish.

NOTES
*Ask any pasta master and they will tell you that to make good pasta you need to use 00 flour. We started this recipe off with that very intention UNTIL we opened up a packet of freshly purchased 00 flour and saw little things wriggling in it…yuk…As we had no time to run back to the shops, we had to resort to a regular, all purpose flour for the photographed batch and, guess what, the ravioli still turned out delicious! So if you are in a similar (or other) predicament and cannot get 00 flour, use white all purpose wheat flour instead.

**If you are not using vegan ricotta, you’ll not be able to fill as many ravioli with pumpkin filling alone so prepare a double amount of the pumpkin filling.

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 remaining liquid becomes thick and ALMOST jelly-like (similar to egg whites). Once reduced, cool aquafaba down completely before using.

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NUTRITIONAL INFO
calories
24
1%
sugars
0 g
0%
fats
1 g
1%
saturates
0 g
0%
proteins
1 g
1%
carbs
4 g
2%
*per raviolo
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REVIEWS & QUESTIONS
Cara:
Hi! I'm trying to figure out if I need to double this or not. The recipe says that it makes 60, does that mean 60 whole 2" raviolis?
thanks!
    Ania
    Ania:
    Yes, that's right, 60 ravioli although it depends how good you are with rolling your pasta too. If your dough ends up thicker, you'll get fewer ravioli of course. I would double just in case and freeze whatever I don't use up. Hope this helps! x Ania
      Cara:
      Great! Thank you. Trying it out tomorrow. Making some chickpeas tonight for the aquafaba. I'm excited to see how this goes!
        Ania
        Ania:
        That's great to hear and I hope you'll enjoy the process, as well as the end result. x Ania
Erica:
Made these with a few tweaks but I LOVED the aquafaba use! I cook my own chickpeas and always have a big jar of aquafaba on hand. Mine didn't cook down as much as you described, though perhaps I was just too impatient ; ) Regardless, the thicker aquafaba instead of water was noticeable (I made this recipe and another for a separate pasta dish since I was in pasta mode)- this pasta recipe is my new go to.
I'm looking forward to trying more of your recipes. Thanks for the work you do!
    Ania
    Ania:
    Thanks Erica, I am delighted to hear that you enjoyed these ravioli as this is my favourite way to make dumpling dough. Yes, your aquafaba just needed more time to get thicker, but I am glad it worked so well regardless and thank you for taking the time to review - I really appreciate it. x Ania
Rebecca:
I made this and it was delicious! I skipped the ricotta cheese and just filled the ravioli with the butternut squash mixture. It made 29 square ravioli. I doubled the filling since that was recommended if you didn't make the ricotta and there was quite a bit left over. I used a Kitchen Aide lasagna noodle pasta extruder to make the pasta sheets. I used 1 can's worth of aquafaba which was a little less than 150 ml once I reduced it, but I just added water to make up the rest and the pasta turned out great. I used regular AP flour. Thanks for the recipe! I've never made ravioli before and I was shocked at how well it turned out!
    Ania
    Ania:
    Thanks so much, Rebecca! I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed these so much especially that it was your first attempt - sounds like you nailed it! x Ania
Chloe:
Such a lovely recipe - this was my first time making ravioli and I got compliments all round! The pumpkin filling was so delicious that I kept eating it before it reached the pasta! I would warn any other slow cooks that this did take me around 2 1/2 hours in total, although I also made a vegan white sauce and washed/roasted the pumpkin seeds.... still - I enjoyed myself haha :))
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Chloe,
    I'm delighted to hear that you enjoyed these so much! I agree, making homemade ravioli is rather time consuming, but I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed the process as much as the end result. xx Ania
Rachel:
For non-vegans, what is the number of eggs needed for this recipe?
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Rachel,
    I am vegan and so is this blog so I am really not sure. I think you may be better off finding a regular recipe if you don't care for it being vegan. Ania
Wendy Briggs:
Hi
Do you mean cup normal aquababa and 2 TBS reduced aquababa? I've just reduced the aquafaba from one tin chickpeas and only got about 2 TBS left? How many tins would you need to get a cup?? Thanks
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi,
    I mean 150 ml reduced aquafaba. I always cook my own chickpeas from dry, but the tins I have tried tended to have 1 cup of liquid (although I am sure it depends on the brand). Hope that helps! Ania
Desiree:
Thank you Ania. I feel like my dough was a bit tough. It was hard work too.
    Ania
    Ania:
    In that case, it was most certainly too little liquid to flour ratio. Hope aren't put off from giving another go at some point. Ania
Desiree:
I may have reduced the aquafava too much. I used more aquafava (not reduced) as I needed more than 3 tblsp of water. My dough did not seem right and only yielded 20 ravioli. It tasted great, but was hard work.
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Desiree,
    The correct dry to wet ingredients ratio is quite crucial in this recipe so that's perhaps your dough had a looser or tougher consistency than expected. As for the number of ravioli it all depends on how thinly you are able to roll out the dough and how big your ravioli are (mine were quite small) so that's not necessarily a problem. I am glad you enjoyed the taste! Ania
Maya:
Hi! I made this recipe a few days ago and it turned out fantastic, I didn't know making pasta was this easy! The filling was great, especially the cheese. We do have quite a lot of the squash filling leftover though. Do you have any recommendations on what to use it for? Thank you.
    Ania
    Ania:
    That's great to hear, Maya! Thank you for taking the time to let me know and rate the recipe - much appreciated. As for the leftovers, I like to make this simple pasta with leftover butternut squash. Hope that helps! Ania
Martin:
I used the recipe for the pasta and it worked perfectly !
It would be nice if we had the amount of unreduced aquafaba to begin with.
thank you for the recipe !
    Ania
    Ania:
    Thanks Martin! I'm glad to hear that! I will try to make a note of it next time I make this dish and add it to the recipe! Ania
Aimee:
Hi! I don’t have pumpkin cubes on hand, and I was wondering if canned pumpkin would work?
    Ania
    Ania:
    I should work, Aimee. You want the filling not to be too wet though so if it is you may need to saute it for a bit to let the excess water cook out. Ania
Hannah:
Hands down this is my favorite food blog of all time. It doesn't matter where I am on pinterest, I always end up back here.
I didn't even know how many of your recipes I had made till I typed it into my browser bar and past history popped up!
Everything I made so far has been an absolute hit, and I'm crossing my fingers that a cookbook is coming out soon!!
    Ania
    Ania:
    Aw, thanks so much, Hannah! Your lovely comment has made my day! x Ania
Bhuvaneshwari:
Do we need to whip reduced aquafaba before adding to flour?
Your raviolis are to die for. Lovely colour, texture and presentation.
I am going to try with the mill fresh wheat flour I have. Let me see how it turns out
With love,
Bhuvaneshwari
    Ania
    Ania:
    Thanks Bhuvaneshwari! No, you don't need to whip AF, add it in as is! Let me know how you got on? Ania
Emily:
I live in a vilage in Turkey and we get all kinds of squirmy things in flour, rice, etc. When i bring them home from the market, i put in the freezer for 1-2 days and then into sealed glass jars. The freezer is great for getting rid of those stowaways.
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Emily,

    That is a great tip! We might just try that very thing when we next have a bug infestation.
francia burg:
Hi!! Im making raviolis like right now but I'm very confused :( this is my first time reducing aquafaba , I start with 3/4 reduced to a little less than 1/2 cup and still look watery to me. I see now difference and now I dont have more aquafaba :( help!!!
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Francia,
    Hmm, not quite sure what to advise. I'm sure you can sub missing aquafaba with about a tablespoon of olive oil and some water to bring the dough together, but the dough won't be quite the same. It will still be good though - that's how I made pierogi dough, for example. Good luck! Ania
Lesley:
These look incredible, and I'd love to make them when I have the time. Have you ever tried to freeze them? I am wondering if I could make them and keep them on hand for when I have dinner guests. Thanks for your hard work in the vegan kitchen. It really helps the rest of us out! <3
    Ania
    Ania:
    Aw, thanks, Lesley! That's so lovely to hear, especially that I love it! :) I haven't tried freezing them but I don't see why not as they taste (and behave) just like regular pasta. I don't think any omnivore would be able to spot the difference unless they've been warned! Perhaps cook them, cool and freeze and then thaw and pan-fry lightly for extra texture (the dough will crisp up nicely). Let me know how you get on, Lesley! x Ania
Maude:
Hi there. Can't wait to make this! Do you have a recipe for vegan ricotta please?
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Maude,
    Thanks, glad you like the recipe. Vegan ricotta (in the ingredients list) is linking to the ricotta recipe, but here it is again just in case. Ania
Michelle:
I wonder if chickpea flour would work?
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Michelle,
    I would not say so - at least not without some additive that mimics gluten - as you need gluten in the flour to make pasta. Sorry :( - I will be working on GF pasta at some point but for now, I don't have access to some of the ingredients needed. Ania
Katy:
Good morning Ania,
Thank you for the pasta recipe! So often, a recipe for vegan ravioli calls for egg-roll wrappers as the "pasta" element in the dish, and if I actually have a package in my freezer, it's generally been forgotten about in the mists of time and I wouldn't dare use it.
For Pinterest search purposes perhaps you could include 'fresh' or 'homemade' ravioli in your title? Also, I couldn't decide which image to post: the beauty shot,or the image showing the dough being made. Perhaps you could embed a small image of the pasta making process in one of your pins?
It's going to be a rainy weekend here in Coldstream, in the North Okanagan, Bc, perhaps I'll get a chance to try your recipe in the next couple of days. I'll let you know how it goes.
    Ania
    Ania:
    Good morning, Katy! Pleased to hear that you like the recipe and I hope you'll make it and love it :) I'm afraid I cannot change the title as it's bad for Google search results. Ania
Caterina:
Hi Ania,
Have you tried to make the above recipe with a gluten-free flour?
Thanks!
    Ania
    Ania:
    Hi Caterina,
    No, I'm afraid I haven't yet as I have trouble getting some speciality ingredients here. I will one day, for sure. :)
Katrina:
Gorgeous!
We have a newly purchased pasta machine and ravioli makers as the kids were keen to make some again!
We have done spinach and vegan ricotta which was gorgeous!!!
I hate weevils in flour!
We now have everything in the kitchen in sealed jars, as if you get one bad bag of something, at least it only contaminates it's own jar!
    Ania
    Ania:
    Thank you :) I can imagine that family ravioli making session would be so much fun! I can only dream of that although Tina is quite good when it comes to kneading with her paws ;) x
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