LOVE ravioli !

I love Italian cooking and I love ravioli but I have never been brave enough to make them from scratch on my own. 
But here they are. I am happy in 99% how they turned out but there is always place for an improvement I think ;-)
It is a great dish not only for your loved ones. Those little heart shaped ravioli with delicious pea filling look and taste really nice.

For 19 pieces you will need:

The dough:
200 gr of flour
2 eggs
pinch of salt

The filling:
1 cup of green peas cooked
4 cloves of garlic
bunch of basil and parsley leaves

3 tsp of cream cheese
1/2 cup of parmezan
zest of 1/2 lemon
1/2 cup of roasted pistachios
salt and pepper

First you need to do the dough. 
Mix the flour with the eggs. If the dough feels too dry you can add few drops of water. Knead the pasta until smooth and then wrap in the plastic wrap.
Cool in the fridge for about 30 minutes.
In the meantime prepare the filling.
Puree in the food processor the peas, garlic, parmezan,lemon zest, cream cheese, herbs, pistachios and season it well with salt and pepper. Blend it all until smooth pesto texture.

Once the dough has been cooled down you can prepare the raviolis.
Remove the pasta from the fridge and the wrap and cut into half.
Work with one piece at the time. Lightly flour the dough and roll it out with a roller ( or pasta machine if you are lucky to have that) until really thin.
I used first my heart shaped form to mark where to put the filling.
Put the filling in the middle of each heart ,brush the edges with a little bit of water and cover it with the second piece of rolled out pasta.

Press down between them to seal the sheets together. I used a fork to be extra sure to keep the filling inside.

Boil plenty of water in a large pot and add pinch of salt. Drop half of the raviolis into the pot and cook for about 4-5 minutes until they start floating on top. Remove them and serve immediately with melted butter or creamy pea sauce on the bed of roasted asparagus as I did.

                                                             Buon Appetito :-)