How to make Tortellini, a traditional recipe for italian Christmas

Here is the recipe for tortellini made at home by the Fiaccavento family for 1.2 kg of tortellini

Ingredients

The filling (stuffing):
150g pork pulp;
200 gr of veal pulp;
150 gr mortadella;
100 gr Parmesan cheese;
Salt 6 gr.
Grated nutmeg for the filling (abundant).
Oil extra vergin of oil and an onion to cook the meat.

For egg pasta:
500 gr of flour type 00 (zero zero)
4 whole eggs and 4 egg yolks.

The pasta must rest at least half an hour before being pulled. With the machine to pull the dough you go in progression from the lowest number (greater thickness) three laps and to follow pass twice to the last number (very thin and light).

Here are all the steps in the pictures:

Margherita Fiaccavento

Fiaccavento Margherita was born in Rome in 1968. Having long studied for a diplomatic career in Rome and Paris rejects the constraints by developing a rebellious and non-conformist life. After 15 years of professional experience managerial changes to television as a writer and web content. In 2012 he left Rome and the Eldorado media for the Emilia countryside. “Amazon on me”and ‘his first work of fiction.

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