Recipe for Homemade Meat Tortellini
A great way to enjoy meat-filled tortillini, with 100% homemade dough.
Ingredients
For the pasta
- 300 g Flour for pasta
- 3 eggs
For the filling
- 200 g Minced meat of your choice, pork, veal, mixed....
- 150 g Bacon
- 150 g Parmesan
- 1 egg
- Provençal herbs
- Nutmeg
- Salt
- Pepper
- Extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
We begin with the stuffing, so that it rests and all the flavors mix well.
- In a large frying pan, with a drizzle of oil, put the minced meat and the bacon, also finely chopped. Cook until the meat is to our taste. Remove to a large bowl.
- Add the cheese, egg, spices and salt and pepper. Mix well and cover with plastic wrap. Let it rest until the dough is ready.
For the dough
- We continue with the dough. We put the flour on a wide and smooth table, in the form of a volcano.Add the previously beaten eggs in the middle of the volcano. We go mixing, taking the flour from the outside to the eggs. We repeat the process until we obtain a consistent dough, moment in which, we can begin to knead with the hands.
- We have to knead until we get a smooth dough, with a fine texture. Then, cover it with cling film and let it rest on the table for half an hour.
- To smooth the dough we can do it in the traditional way, with a rolling pin; or with a pasta machine if we have one. But, above all, we must try to make the dough as thin as possible, even transparent.We extend the dough well, smooth it with a rolling pin until it has the desired thickness and cut it into squares. It will be enough to have between 3 and 4 centimeters on each side.
- Now that we have cut the squares, we are going to fill them. We put a little bit of filling in each one and close diagonally, and then join the two corners that have been left loose. So that they acquire that typical appearance of tortellini, in the shape of a ring.When we have finished filling all the tortellini, we continue with the cooking.
- In a pot with plenty of water add a handful of salt and a dash of oil. We bring to boil.
- As soon as the water starts to boil, add the tortellini, being careful not to break them; and let them cook until they start to float, when they will be ready.You will see that just a few minutes of cooking is enough.When they float, remove them with a skimmer and serve with the sauce of your choice.Now we have ready some wonderful tortellini completely homemade.
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