Filled pasta
Ravioli
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Ravioli are square or round filled pasta pockets.
Ravioli means "possibly from rava, turnip" in Italian.
Best sauces: butter and sage, tomato, meat sugo. Match the shape to the sauce — long thin pasta for oil and light sauces, tubes and ridges for chunky or meaty sauces, flat egg ribbons for rich ragù and butter.
- Type
- Filled
- Origin
- Italy-wide
- Best with
- butter and sage, tomato, meat sugo
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