1Muscovy duckmine was a male and weighed 1600g after cleaning, but a smaller female would be fine too, cleaned and skinned
300mlhot water
50gdried porcini and 500ml boiling water
To serve
50gbuttermelted
Pinch of salt
Parmesan cheesefinely grated
Instructions
Making the ravioli pasta
The easiest way to make the pasta dough is by combining the flour and eggs in a stand mixer using the flat beater attachment. When the machine starts struggling, swap for the dough hook to finish off before tipping out onto the work surface on and kneading well. If you don't have a stand mixer, tip the flour onto the work surface, break the eggs into a large well in the middle and bring together with you hands. It will initially looks like messy breadcrumbs, and eventually like a smooth ball of dough.
Wrap tightly in cling film and pop in the fridge for an hour.
Making the duck filling
Place the duck and hot water into a slow cooker. If the bird won't fit, remove legs & pop inside the body cavity to ensure the slow cooker lid fits perfectly.
Set to high and cook for 5 hours. When the meat shreds easily with a fork, remove the bird from the stock and let cool. Reserve the stock.
In a jug pour 500ml of boiling hot water. Add in the poricini mushrooms, stir a little and let steep for 30 minutes. When the time is up and the water is cool enough to handle, squeeze the mushrooms over the jug to extract all the 'juice'. Finely chop the mushrooms with a sharp knife and reserve the soaking liquid.
When the duck is cool enough to handle, shred the meat from the bones and mix with the mushrooms.
In a saucepan, carefully pour 90% of the porcini stock. The bottom dregs will likely contain some grit that has fallen out of the mushrooms during soaking, so pour that away.
Add the red wine and duck stock and bring to the boil. Boil hard until the mixture reduces to around 250ml.
Pour the reduced stock through a sieve into a food processor. Add the shredded duck meat and porcini mushrooms, and whizz until it becomes a paste. Cool then chill until needed.
Making the ravioli
Ideally, you're going to use a pasta maker for this stage. If you don't have one you can use a rolling pin, but man that is going to be haaaard work!
Cut the ball of dough into 4 pieces. Rewrap 3 of them to stop them drying out. Flatten the forth a little and put through the widest setting on the pasta maker. Reduce the settings until you have cranked the sheet out at thinnest setting, then lay the pasta sheet over your ravioli maker. Again, if you don't have a ravioli maker take a peep on youtube as it is possible to make ravioli with a rolling pin and a cookie cutter.
Press a teaspoon of filling into each dimple on the ravioli board, making sure there is no air trapped in with it. Top with another sheet of pasta and use a rolling pin to cut and separate each little ravioli dumpling.
Pop onto a floured board and continue with the rest of the filling.
You will probably have a little filling left at the end of play which can be used in another batch of pasta or used up on a jacket potato or similar.
To cook the ravioli
Bring a large pan of water to the boil. Add 6 or 7 pieces of ravioli pr person and boil for 3 minutes. Drain, and serve with melted butter, a sprinkle of salt and a grating of parmesan.