- A small casing of pasta with any of various fillings, such as chopped meat or cheese.
- A dish made with ravioli.
[Italian, pl. of raviolo, perhaps from dialectal rava, turnip, from Latin rāpa.]
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[Italian, pl. of raviolo, perhaps from dialectal rava, turnip, from Latin rāpa.]
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Square envelope of pasta stuffed with minced meat or cheese.
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[rav-ee-OH-lee; ra-VYOH-lee] An Italian specialty of little square or round pillows of noodle dough filled with any of various mixtures such as cheese, meat or vegetables. Ravioli are boiled, then sometimes baked with a cream, cheese or tomato sauce. Chinese-style ravioli are called won tons; Jewish-style are kreplach. See also pasta.
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Ravioli (plural; singular: raviolo) are a type of filled pasta composed of a filling sealed between two layers of thin pasta dough. The word ravioli is reminiscent of the Italian verb riavvolgere ("to wrap"), though the two words are not etymologically connected.[citation needed] The word may also be a diminutive of Italian dialectal rava, or turnip.
The filling may be meat-based (either red or poultry), fish-based, or cheese-based. Ravioli can be rectangular, triangular, half-moon or circular in shape. Other traditional Italian fillings include ricotta mixed with grated cheese and vegetables such as spinach, swiss chard, or nettles or they may be a puree made of potatoes, mushrooms, pumpkin, chestnut or artichokes.
Ravioli are often topped with a red tomato-based sauce: though tomatoes were introduced to European botanists in the 16th century, tomato sauce makes a surprisingly late entry in Italian cuisine: in 1692. [1] More delicate fillings are often paired with sage and melted butter, or more rarely with pesto- or broth-based sauces.
The earliest mention of ravioli appear in the writings of Francesco di Marco, a merchant of Prato in the 14th century[2] In Venice, the mid-14th century manuscript Libro per cuoco offers ravioli of green herbs blanched and minced, mixed with beaten egg and fresh cheese, simmered in broth, a recipe that would be familiar today save for its medieval powdering of "sweet and strong spices".[3] In Tuscany, some of the earliest mentions of the dish come from the personal letters of Francesco di Marco Datini, a merchant of Prato in the 14th century. In Rome, ravioli were already well-known when Bartolomeo Scappi served them with boiled chicken to the papal conclave of 1549.[4]
Ravioli were already known in 14th century England, appearing in the Anglo-Norman vellum manuscript Forme of Cury under the name of rauioles.[5][6]. Sicilian ravioli and Malta's ravjul may thus be older than North Italian ones. Maltese ravjul are stuffed with irkotta, the locally produced sheep's-milk ricotta, or with gbejna, the traditional fresh sheep's-milk cheese.
Today, ravioli are made in worldwide industrial lines supplied by Italian companies such as Arienti & Cattaneo, Ima, Ostoni, and Zamboni. "Fresh" packed ravioli usually have seven weeks of shelf life.
Similar foods in other cultures include the Chinese jiaozi or wonton – in fact, ravioli and tortellini are collectively referred to as "Italian jiaozi" (義大利餃) or "Italian wonton" (意大利雲吞)) – Eastern and central European pierogi, the Russian pelmeni, the Ukrainian varenyky, the Tibetan momo, the Turkish mantı, German Maultaschen, and Jewish kreplach. In the Levant, a similar dish called shishbarak contains pasta filled with minced beef meat and cooked in hot yogurt.
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Français (French)
n. - ravioli
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μαγειρ.) ραβιόλια
Português (Portuguese)
n. - ravióli (m) (Cul.)
Español (Spanish)
n. - ravioles
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - ravioli
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
馄饨
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. pl. - 餛飩
n. - 餛飩
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 라비올리(밀가루 반죽 요리)
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ラビオリ, ラヴィオリ
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) اكله ايطاليه مصنوعه من العجينه محشوة بالحم
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - בצקניות, כיסנים, רביולי
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