Tried our hand at making pasta today, since we had all the ingredients for a tortellini, we went for that! The filling was inspired by a Jamie Oliver recipe of roasted spiced pumpkin, and we added quorn and onions for a better bite, since the pumpkin was mashed up. Opted for a light sauce of lemon-sage-garlic butter. We didn't have a roller to roll out the pasta in nice thin sheets, so we improvised a used soy sauce bottle and a broken thermos instead :) It was really hard work kneading and rolling it out! A hand operated pasta machine would have been lovely at that point! We tried to get a consistent 1mm thickness as suggested by the recipe books, but the best we could manage was 2mm. And thus, the tortellinis turned out really huge, more like TortezillAs!
Dinner was 5 TortazillAs each, with a bit of cabbage dill salad and homemade sourdough bread :) Tasted great, but slightly undercooked due to the thick TortezillA skin.
We were really surprised at how easy it was to make the pasta dough! Though it was quite challenging rolling it out and cutting it. Proper tools would probably have made it easier but we had lots of fun! We will definitely be trying more pastas in the new year!
Legend has it, tortellinis were inspired by Venus, so we are starting our new year new blog with food made with Love!
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