Colored ravioli

5 super easy Italian Ravioli Fillings recipes, to make your homemade ravioli as a real Italian housewife would do!

Beet and Spinach Goat Cheese Ricotta Ravioli is naturally dyed and so delicious. Paired with a chanterelle mushroom sauce.

Fresh pasta is many things, but vibrantly hued is not one of them. There are times when this couldn't matter less—times when you're dousing it in a thick, colorful sauce or making uova in raviolo. But sometimes you want to keep things super simple without sacrificing an eye-catching presentation. And sometimes you just want some bright pink noodles, dammit. Here's how to make fresh pasta in a rainbow of colors.

It's hard to "beet" the bright fuchsia hue roasted beets give this vibrant homemade pasta. If you're up for a fun weekend project, this roasted beet ravioli is it. It's easier than it looks and can make the perfect lazy (but still creative!) Saturday afternoon. Beets are roasted in the oven and then quickly pureed in the food processor. This is then added to flour with eggs and salt and kneaded to make the bright purplish-pink dough you see in the pics below. Then gradually roll the dough…

A rainbow created from all-natural food colourants.

I have been wanting to make this dish for years. The idea of sandwiching herbs between pasta sheets to make ‘stained glass’ or ‘cathedral’ pasta came from somewhere else, but I thought it could onl…

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