Tortellini are usually stuffed with meat even though I heard a few others stuffed with ricotta, prosciutto and potatoes. I stuffed them with chicken today. I previosly posted also meat (beef) stuffing for those who prefer beef.
FYI, Domenico, my brother in law, is using a stuffing made of pork and beef, mortadella and prosciutto cotto in his pasta fresca shop.
If tortellini are to be stuffed with meat, the meat is always precooked.
Around where I live tortellini are indispensable for those showy and grandiose Italian style Christmas Lunches.
Tortellini are usually cooked in broth for Christmas Lunch and called "Tortellini in Brodo". Other times they are also made with tomato sauce, ragu sauce, cream...etc many different sauces.
And here are the ingredients:
Ingredients:Fresh Egg Pasta (to be prepared with 400g flour and 4 eggs, 60g each, due to the given link)
Chicken Stuffing:10g shallot
10g celery stalk
10g carrot
1 clove of garlic
20g extra virgin olive oil
450g chicken breast (cleaned off the nerves, cubed)
15g white wine
1 egg
Salt
Black pepper
Nutmeg
Zest of 1/4 lemon
120g grated parmesan
(Alternatively you can use this recipe:
Meat Stuffing)
Preparation: Chop shallot, celery stalk, carrot and garlic for 5 seconds on Speed 5.
Add oil and cook for 2 minutes at 100ºC on Speed 1.
Add cubed chicken and cook for 4 minutes at Varoma Temperature on Reverse / Speed 1.
Add wine and cook for 6-8 minutes at Varoma Temperature on Reverse / Speed 1. Transfer it into another bowl and let it cool.
Put chicken back into cooled TM Bowl.
Add salt, pepper, nutmeg, zest of lemon, egg and parmesan. Mix for 30 second on Reverse / Speed 4-5.
Divide fresh egg pasta into pieces.
Roll out with a pasta machine or rolling pin, sprinkle with a little flour when needed.
Cut them with a round cutter. (Alternatively, you can cut them into squares by a knife, if you prefer that)
Place stuffing in the center.
Fold them into a half moon shape as in the picture.
Unite the both ends .
Additional Notes:Pay attention not to dry pasta sheets
Don't roll out all together but piece by piece
Cut one pasta sheet into pieces, place the stuffing, fold and line. Continue with the rest of fresh egg pasta and stuffing until finished.
A couple of helpers could surely make your life easier
There are several ways of folding while forming tortellini. I will try and show them next time.
Have a nice work..
Photos: http://thermomixtarifdefterim.blogspot.com/2011/12/chicken-stuffed-tortellini.htmlmembers' commentsBerry - it turned out perfectly. Will definitely make again and again, though looking forward to trying the meat one next! Thank you so much Farfallina and the pictures on your blog were especially helpful.
