Before categorically dismissing the idea of banana ravioli as gross, I want you to look deep within your heart of hearts and ask yourself a question: Do I like pie? If even the tiniest bit of you is leaning toward the “yes” end of things, you owe this recipe another chance. True, it’s a disaster of foodstuffs and sounds like the kind of thing that a sugar-crazed child or weary cooking contest reality-show contestant might concoct. But you know what? There’s beauty in the breakdown.
My friend, Austin, invented banana ravioli a few nights ago when we ran out of cheesy filling at my ravioli-making party and were looking for creative stuffing for the rest of the dough. After vetoing pretzels, chili peppers and wine, even I had to admit that banana was a good idea. We threw some peanut butter and a few chocolate chips in there and ate it plain, although we did decide that it would make an awesome ice cream topping.
Peanut Butter and Banana Ravioli
Ingredients
1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon of flour
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon of oil
2 tablespoons of water
1 Banana
Peanut butter
Chocolate chips
Instructions
1. Mix the flour and salt on a clean surface and make a little nest.
2. Stir the egg yolk, water and oil like you’re going to make scrambled eggs and then, little by little, pour it into the flour nest, mixing the wet and dry ingredients and reforming them back into a nest each time. You may need to add a little extra flour to keep the dough from getting to sticky.
3. Knead the dough for 10 minutes and then let it sit for another 10.
4. Roll little balls of dough into rectangles, making the dough as thin as you possibly can without tearing it.
5. Dab a little peanut butter across one end of the dough, add a banana slice and then top with chocolate chips.
6. Fold the other half over, pinch in the sides and slice the ravioli.
7. Boil them for about a minute or until the dough turns to pasta. The chocolate and peanut butter will melt together and you’ll have a weirdo dessert that’s ready to go.
WHAT!? I have no words other than “amazing”!! I will save this for my next date night, as tonight’s Dessert Hour is already committed to the blueberry ice cream that I made last night!
The inclusion of bananas totally make this healthy, right??!?!
right?! i used whole wheat flour so i could convince myself that i was basically eating pure tofu and broccoli.
This is somewhat similar to a christmas sweet from my dad’s village in Italy, but those ones have a chocolate-orange chickpea filling and are deep-fried and dusted with icing sugar. Damn, they’re good.
I like this concept. Banana and chocolate is always a win.
O.O
That sounds delicious. Does this magical dish of magicalness have a name?
They’re called calzoncelli, which probably means something along the lines of ‘little socks’ or ‘little sacks’, which is cute.
Recipe!
http://dulcisinfurno.blogspot.com.au/2009/11/calzoncelli.html
This one uses chestnuts, but you do you.
Omg what if you did banana and nutella instead?!
omg.
omg this sounds absolutely delicious!
shut the eff up. this looks amazing.
holy shit this looks good
Holy Crap. I want it. I WANT IT IN MY MOUTH RIGHT NOW!
I love that you have ravioli-making parties!
To this day goat cheese, honey and fig ravioli remain the best thing I’ve ever made.
get in my tummy please
Wait a minute, a ravioli making party? That sounds like my kind of party.
Elvis’s favorite pasta?
get in and around my mouth omg
I just died. Any suggestions for making it vegan? (I suppose you could substitute chia or flax for the egg yolk)
you know…. if you fried them up after you boiled them, that would be nice too…. :P
Okay, so peanut butter, banana, AND Nutella. Thoughts?
I kind of hate bananas but Nutella and peanut butter is the baby that Reese’s wished it had. I will totally eat that baby.
Laura!
THIS. Wow. This is genius. Also, you have ravioli making parties? I think that’s the coolest thing.