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July 22, 2020

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce

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Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce are easy homemade pumpkin ravoili simmered in a rich sage butter and topped with apples and walnuts. Perfect fall comfort food! #homemaderavioli #pumpkinravioli #easyraviolirecipe #pumpkinraviolisagebutter #pumpkinsavory #homemadepumpkinravioli #fallfood #savorypumpkindinner #savorypumpkindish #easyhomemaderavioli #thanksgivingfood #applesagesauce #raviolidinner #fallinspireddinner

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce is perfect fall comfort food! Easier to make than you might think, these homemade pumpkin ravioli are tender and full of pumpkin flavor. Made with pumpkin puree, ricotta cheese, fall seasonings and an easy ravioli dough recipe, these pumpkin ravioli are then simmered in a rich sage butter and topped with apples and walnuts.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce are easy homemade pumpkin ravoili simmered in a rich sage butter and topped with apples and walnuts. Perfect fall comfort food!

When I say ‘homemade pumpkin ravioli’ or Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce … do you throw up your hands and say ‘nope, not for me!

… no time, not worth the trouble, hey Trader Joe’s has a sale this week on pumpkin ravioli… nope! nope! nope!’? 

Yeah .. me too. 

(Big dramatic pause)

Until …… I learned exactly how easy it really is to make homemade ravioli yourself and how much fun it is. 

homemade pumpkin ravioli

Seriously, I got so excited when my first tray of ravioli came together. 

Similar concept of making homemade pierogi, I started with homemade chicken ravioli and was HOOKED!!

Yes, it does take a bit of time to do but not any more than it does to get dressed, drive to your grocery store, find parking, fight crowds, etc. 

Making homemade pumpkin ravioli is easy and fun (psst.. super impressive too!) and this Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce is the perfect fall comfort food that will surprise even you!

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce pumpkin ravioli

what are pumpkin ravioli?

Just what the name implies!

Tender homemade ravioli stuffed with a perfectly seasoned pumpkin ricotta filling then served up with sage butter, pecans and apples. Fall comfort food at it’s best!

why these pumpkin ravioli are the BEST

  • Homemade pumpkin ravioli are easy and fun to make plus they are super impressive and .. you know.. there’s all that street cred 🙂
  • Tender pumpkin ravioli simmered in sage butter topped off with apple bites and toasted pecans. So much savoy goodness on one plate!
  • Easy to make double batches of pumpkin ravioli so you have plenty in the freezer for a quick meal or to share with friends.

To make Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce, you will need:

  • All purpose flour
  • Eggs
  • Olive oil
  • Ricotta cheese
  • Pumpkin puree
  • Parmesan cheese
  • Seasonings
  • Butter
  • Fresh sage leaves
  • Apple
  • Apple cider vinegar
  • Walnuts

how do you make pumpkin ravioli?

Easy! To make Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce, start by making your homemade ravioli dough.

On your clean counter top or a large cutting board, add your flour and salt and lightly mix with a fork to combine. 

Now, using your hand, made a well in the middle of the flour, almost so it looks like a volcano.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce dough volcano

Next, add your eggs, olive oil and water to the middle of the volcano and lightly whisk the eggs together a bit, doing your best not to let your eggs escape and break out of the volcano.

(If your eggs escape, it’s fine, you’re just going to move on to the next step in a bit more hurried fashion 🙂 )

Now, using your hands, lightly start combining the flour and the egg mixture.

Once the dough starts to look like … dough …. start kneading it together and folding the dough on top of itself over and over again for about 10 minutes. 

Then form your ravioli dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap and let it sit undisturbed on your kitchen counter for one hour.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce ravioli dough

After that hour has passed, make your pumpkin ravioli filling by combining ricotta and pumpkin in a large mixing bowl. 

Add in the Parmesan, egg, garlic powder, brown sugar and spices and mix to combine and set aside.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce filling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now comes the fun part!

On your counter top or a large cutting board (glass cutting boards are the BEST!), unwrap your ravioli dough and tear off a chunk about the size of a tennis ball. 

Throw some flour down on your work surface and a little on the top of the dough you are about to roll out.

Using a rolling pin, start rolling the dough out and away from you, back and forth and side to side until you have a rectangle type shape about 16 inches long and about 10 inches wide.

At this time, grab your ravioli tray and with non-stick cooking spray, lightly coat the top of the tray and the bottom of the press tray.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce dough on a tray

 

Gently move your dough to lightly rest on top of your ravioli tray and lightly press down on the dough by placing the press tray on top to create the well.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce press tray

Gently remove the press tray and using a spoon, fill your ravioli wells with your pumpkin filling, taking care not to over fill of have your filling extend past the wells.

It takes one of two ravioli to get your method on lock but once you do a few, you will see how easy it is to fill them in.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce filled ravioli

Then roll out another sheet of dough exactly as you did the first and lay it gently on top of your filled ravioli. 

Take your rolling pin and lightly roll your pin over the dough to seal the ravioli.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce sealing the ravioli

Using your finger or the back of a spoon, carefully remove the excess dough from the edges of the frame.

Lightly run your finger down all of the cross grooves to make sure all sides of your ravioli are sealed.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce remove excess dough

Lift your tray and carefully turn upside down on a parchment paper lined baking tray. 

The pumpkin ravioli should easily release from the tray and then you can gently tear them apart from each other. 

Collect the dough scraps and re-roll to make another batch of pumpkin raviolis. At this point, decide if you want to freeze them to be served later or if you are cooking them now.

Add your fresh pumpkin ravioli to a pot of boiling water and cook for 5-6 minutes. 

sage butter, apples and pecans

While your ravioli is cooking, add chopped walnuts to a small pan and toast over medium high heat.  You want to stir them often or they will burn. 

Cook for 3-4 minutes or until they become fragrant.  Once they are toasted remove from heat and set aside.

Next, add butter to a large skillet and melt over medium high heat.  Add in your diced apple and apple cider vinegar and cook for 2 – 3 minutes.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce apples and butter

Then add your chopped fresh sage and cook for 2 – 3 minutes so that it starts to sizzle and fry.

Once your ravioli has cooked, drain the water and add the pumpkin ravioli to the sage butter and stir to coat.  Serve immediately and top with toasted walnuts.

pro tips for perfect pumpkin ravioli

  • Roll your dough out thin but not too thin.  You don’t want your dough to not stand up to the filling and the boiling process.
  • Glass cutting boards are a dough rollers best friend.  I will screw up rolling out dough on my counter top EVERY. TIME. Glass cutting boards are a must have in my house.
  • Don’t forget to spray your ravioli tray and the underside of the press tray with non-stick cooking spray.  Can’t emphasize this enough.
  • You will want to pack in spoonfuls of your delicious pumpkin ravioli filling in your tiny little ravioli wells.  Stop Drop and Roll right here! Don’t!!!  Fill your pumpkin ravioli with approximately 2 – 3 teaspoons of filling.  I know it doesn’t seem like much but you don’t want your ravioli exploding when you cook them.  Those seams need to be sealed up tight and too much filling will push out and you wont get a tight seal.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce bowl

can you make ravioli without a pasta machine?

Absolutely! There are numerous ways to make homemade ravioli and you can certainly make this pumpkin ravioli recipe without a pasta machine.

I don’t have a pasta machine, heck.. I don’t even have a stand up mixer!

All you need to make delicious ravioli is a hard surface, two hands and a rolling pin.  Trust me, you’ve got this.

how you do shape ravioli?

There are different ways to shape and make your homemade ravioli from fancy rollers to cut the dough, to ravioli trays to ice cube trays.

I bought a ravioli tray off Amazon for next to no money and its the easiest thing you could ever use to help make perfect homemade ravioli. 

I have added the link below if you are interested.  For the sake of this blog post, I am showing how to make fresh ravioli using that tray method.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce ravioli tray

can you freeze fresh pasta?

Yes! As a matter of fact, I will usually do 2 or 3 batches of ravioli or Homemade Pierogies at once and freeze them for later. 

If you are already doing the work of making homemade pumpkin ravioli, why not bust out a few extra rounds?

Once you make your ravioli, move them in a single layer to a parchment paper lined baking tray.

Move the tray to your freezer and freeze your ravioli for at least one hour.  Once frozen, move your ravioli to a zip top bag and freeze for up to six months.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce fresh ravioli

This may not be a quick and easy 30 minute meal idea but I promise you that this Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce is worth the little bit of extra time in the kitchen. 

These pumpkin ravioli are little pillows of pumpkin happiness and the contrast textures of apple and walnut really make this a very decadent comfort food dish worth trying.

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce bite

more comfort food recipes

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  • Parmesan Garlic Spaghetti with Chicken Meatballs
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  • Ground Beef Stroganoff 

Enjoy ♥ Heather

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Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce are easy homemade pumpkin ravoili simmered in a rich sage butter and topped with apples and walnuts. Perfect fall comfort food!

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce

Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce is perfect fall comfort food! Easier to make than you might think, these homemade pumpkin ravioli are tender and full of pumpkin flavor. Made with pumpkin puree, ricotta cheese, fall seasonings and an easy ravioli dough recipe, these pumpkin ravioli are then simmered in a rich sage butter and topped with apples and walnuts.
4.71 from 27 votes
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Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
Servings: 8 Servings/36 Raviolis
Calories: 426.8kcal
Author: Heather - A Wicked Whisk

Ingredients

Ravioli Dough

  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons water
  • extra flour for rolling

Pumpkin Ravoili Filling

  • 1 cup ricotta cheese
  • 3/4 cup pumpkin puree
  • 1/3 cup parmesan cheese grated
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon allspice
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon cayenne powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • non-stick cooking spray

Apple Sage Butter

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 16-18 fresh sage leaves chopped or ripped
  • 1 apple - gala or honeycrisp peeled, cored, diced
  • 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
  • 1/4 cup walnuts chopped

Instructions

To Make the Ravioli Dough

  • Easy! To make Pumpkin Ravioli in Apple Sage Butter Sauce, start by making your homemade ravioli dough. On your clean counter top or a large cutting board, add your flour and salt and lightly mix with a fork to combine.  Now, using your hand, made a well in the middle of the flour, almost so it looks like a volcano.  Next, add your eggs, olive oil and water to the middle of the volcano and lightly whisk the eggs together a bit, doing your best not to let your eggs escape and break out of the volcano. 
  • Now, using your hands, lightly start combining the flour and the egg mixture and once the dough starts to look like ... dough .... start kneeding it together and folding the dough on top of itself over and over again for about 10 minutes. Then form your ravioli dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap and let it sit undisturbed on your kitchen counter for one hour.  

To Make the Pumpkin Ravioli Filling

  • After that hour has passed and you are ready to make your pumpkin ravioli, make your pumpkin ravioli filling by combining ricotta and pumpkin in a large mixing bowl. Add in the parmesan, egg, garlic powder, brown sugar and spices and mix to combine and set aside. 

To Make the Pumpkin Ravioli

  • On your countertop or a large cutting board, unwrap your ravioli dough and tear off a chunk about the size of a tennis ball. Throw some flour down on your work surface and a little on the top of the dough you are about to roll out and then using a rolling pin, start rolling the dough out and away from you, back and forth and side to side until you have a rectangle type shape about 16 inches long and about 10 inches wide. 
  • At this time, grab your ravioli tray and with non-stick cooking spray, lightly coat the top of the tray and the bottom of the press tray. Gently move your dough to lighly rest on top of your ravioli tray and lightly press down on the dough by placing the press tray on top to create the well. Gently remove the press tray and using a spoon, fill your ravioli wells with your pumpkin filling, taking care not to over fill of have your filling extend past the wells. Then roll out another sheet of dough exactly as you did the first and lay it gently on top of your filled ravioli. Take your rolling pin and lightly roll your pin over the dough to seal the ravioli. Using your finger or the back of a spoon, carefully remove the excess dough from the edges of the frame and lightly run your finger down all of the cross grooves to make sure all sides of your ravioli are sealed. Lift your tray and carefully turn upsidedown on a parchement paper lined baking tray. The ravioli should easily release from the tray and then you can gently tear them apart from each other. Collect the dough scraps and re-roll to make another batch of raviolis. At this point, decide if you want to freeze them to be served later or if you are cooking them now.
  • Add your fresh ravioli to a pot of boiling water and cook for 5-6 minutes. While your ravioli is cooking, add chopped walnuts to a small pan and toast over medium high heat. You want to stir them often or they will burn. Cook for 3-4 minutes or until they become fragrant. Once they are toasted remove from heat and set aside. Next, add butter to a large skillet and melt over medium high heat. Add in your diced apple and apple cider vinegar and cook for 2 - 3 minutes.  Add in your chopped fresh sage and cook for 2 - 3 minutes so that it starts to sizzle and fry. Once your ravioli has cooked, drain the water and add the pumkin ravioli to the sage butter and stir to coat. Serve immediately and top with toasted walnuts.

Notes

  • Roll your dough out thin but not too thin.  You don't want your dough to not stand up to the filling and the boiling process.
  • Glass cutting boards are a dough rollers best friend.  I will screw up rolling out dough on my counter top EVERY. TIME. Glass cutting boards are a must have in my house.
  • Don't forget to spray your ravioli tray and the underside of the press tray with non-stick cooking spray.  Can't emphasize this enough.
  • You will want to pack in spoonfuls of your delicious pumpkin ravioli filling in your tiny little ravioli wells.  Stop Drop and Roll right here! Don't!!!  Fill your pumpkin ravioli with approximately 2 - 3 teaspoons of filling.  I know it doesn't seem like much but you don't want your ravioli exploding when you cook them.  Those seams need to be sealed up tight and too much filling will push out and you wont get a tight seal.

Nutrition

Serving: 8g | Calories: 426.8kcal | Carbohydrates: 42.6g | Protein: 13.9g | Fat: 23.4g | Saturated Fat: 11.8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7.3g | Cholesterol: 143mg | Sodium: 723.2mg | Potassium: 164.1mg | Fiber: 3.5g | Sugar: 5.4g | Vitamin A: 3650IU | Vitamin C: 2.6mg | Calcium: 149mg | Iron: 2.4mg
Tried this recipe?Mention @AWickedWhisk or tag #AWickedWhisk!

Update Notes: This post was originally published in November 2018 but was republished with an updated recipe, new photos, step by step instructions and tips in July of 2020.

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  1. Hannah says

    November 20, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    5 stars
    Delicious! I didn’t have fresh sage, so I used 3 tsp dried sage instead and it was still amazing.

    Reply
  2. Jenni Guajardo says

    October 18, 2020 at 2:56 am

    5 stars
    These raviolis are fall sweetly tucked into pillows of pasta! This recipe was delicious!!!! I have to admit that the pasta recipe I used was a touch different but my sister and I took on a quadruple batch of this for freezing and since she had made ravioli before and had a dough recipe she loved, we used Hera. (They were so similar)
    This recipe was everything I hoped it would be! All the flavors blended beautifully! Just devine! Served to 6 adults and 6 kids and it was a hit!

    Reply
  3. Hollis Milks says

    October 10, 2020 at 6:04 pm

    5 stars
    I have never had so many compliments on a meal. The brown butter & sage sauce was the absolute tastiest sauce to pair with the pumpkin ravioli! Thank you so much for posting this recipe, it’s a definite srr t sold in this house no matter what season!🎃

    Reply
  4. Amanda says

    May 27, 2020 at 12:02 am

    5 stars
    This was the first time I’ve ever made fresh pasta, and it was definitely worth it! Since I can’t have lactose, I subbed the ricotta for almond “ricotta”. I also used paprika instead of cayenne because it was what I had in my spice drawer. It was truly delicious! I can’t wait to make it again! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

    Reply
  5. Melissa says

    November 3, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    I made this for an autumn- themed dinner this weekend and it was a hit! Next time I’ll probably double or triple the apples though because that ended up being my favorite part. Thanks for the recipe!

    Reply
    • Michael Kirby says

      January 18, 2020 at 8:39 pm

      Thanks so much Melissa, We are so happy that they were a hit, and you can never have to many apples…said me! Have a great night.

      Reply
  6. Meghan says

    October 9, 2019 at 12:02 am

    5 stars
    These were fantastic! The filling is PERFECT!
    Usually when I find recipes online, cayenne is always listed as “1/8 tsp (optional)”… Thank you for not being afraid of spices and knowing how to balance them!!

    Reply
    • Michael Kirby says

      January 18, 2020 at 8:52 pm

      Thanks for the kind words Meghan. If it is one thing that we do not do, is run from spices, as you can tell we are all about the bold flavors and tastes.

      Reply
  7. Nancy says

    October 7, 2019 at 7:32 pm

    5 stars
    This was amazing..hit all the right tastebuds!

    Reply
    • Michael Kirby says

      January 18, 2020 at 9:05 pm

      Thanks so much for the kind words Nancy, glad you enjoyed the flavors and our recipe. Have a good night.

      Reply
  8. JEG says

    October 7, 2019 at 6:19 pm

    I had a bag of store-bought pumpkin ravioli in my freezer. And I had apples. This morning I went to the store for other things and bought the sage and walnuts. This was a quick and easy dinner. Bonus: My husband liked it. Have to buy another bag of pumpkin ravioli.

    Reply
    • Michael Kirby says

      January 18, 2020 at 9:09 pm

      Glad to hear the Store bought ravioli was good and we all know how much of a pain making fresh ravioli is. I’m also glad your husband like the recipe too, I was a little sceptical my self when Heather can up with it. I liked it so much it is now my annual birthday dinner.

      Reply
  9. Amber says

    September 30, 2019 at 11:26 pm

    Just tried this with the addition of caramelized onions. This was so good! Great fall flavors!

    Reply
    • Michael Kirby says

      January 18, 2020 at 9:20 pm

      Thanks Amber, I will definitely have to give that a try.

      Reply

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