Tortellini recipes – favorite pasta with a delicious filling
Tortellini are real all-rounders: the filled pasta fits in vegetarian dishes, but also lets meat lovers get their money's worth. Whether classic with sauce or browned butter or varied in a salad, in a stew or baked as a casserole – tortellini are always a good idea. Our tortellini recipes will also bring you a taste!
The "small cakes", as Tortellini is affectionately known by their inventors, the Italians, are prepared in the same way as other types of pasta: simply cook in boiling salted water. Fresh tortellini from the cooling shelf only have to cook for two to three minutes, dried tortellini take a little longer.
In their Italian homeland, tortellini was traditionally served as a Christmas dish. Today tortellini is served all year round, preferably with tomato sauce or as tortellini alla panna – with a classic cream sauce or a ham and cream sauce. With us you will also find other refined ideas for pasta sauces.
If you are really hungry, we recommend Tortelloni, the big sisters of Tortellini. They contain even more of the delicious filling – fillings with minced meat, ricotta, spinach, mushrooms or cheese are popular, for example.
You can also make tortellini yourself
Making tortellini yourself is not as difficult as many think. In our video cooking school, Fabio Haebel shows you how to make pasta yourself. Then cut out squares from the dough and put about a teaspoon of the desired filling on the pasta dough. Now fold the pasta dough over a corner to form a triangle and press the edges with a fork or your fingers. Now fold the two corners towards the middle and fold the top corner over to get the typical tortellini shape.
Incidentally, the legend says that Tortellini was modeled on the belly button of Venus, known to us as the goddess of love. If that's not clear evidence that love really goes through your stomach!