How do you serve tortellini?

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Twinkletwinklelil · 19/03/2025 20:40

How do you serve tortellini?
I want to up my game.
ive only ever used a pasta sauce and heated it for the tortellini.

share your best recipes please!

I currently have a mushroom one and a spinach and ricotta one waiting to be cooked.

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minipie · 20/03/2025 13:25

GottaWork · 19/03/2025 21:28

here Slightly annoying blog post to wade through but this is a big hit in my house and great for lunch the next day too if there's any left.

This looks delicious @GottaWork have you ever tried it without the sausage? Wondering if that could be ditched as there’s still lots of flavour

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Twinkletwinklelil · 21/03/2025 20:53

Bjorkdidit · 20/03/2025 08:08

I add vegetables to overcome the 'half a pack too little, whole pack too much' problem.I suppose fried chicken strips would also be good.

So I'd have it with tomato sauce and plenty of fried mushrooms cut into quarters. Plus parmesan of course.

Another thing I do is take it for work lunch and put half a pack in a tub with some grated courgette, spoon of pesto and a bit of vegetable stock powder. Then at lunchtime I put in some water from the boiling water tap and microwave for a couple of minutes.

Your work lunch hack is genius.

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Criteria16 · 21/03/2025 21:26

I am from Northern Italy. We only have two ways of eating them: with sage/butter and lots of Parmesan cheese (no pepper, maybe nutmeg added to the burned butter) or in a consommé/broth.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 23/03/2025 13:50

Inspired by this thread,I'm going to try a sage butter. I really like tortellini but we hardly ever have it, because I'm never sure how to serve it.

GlomOfNit · 28/03/2025 08:20

The only reason I buy tortellini these days is to make the addictive 'Italian Wedding Soup'! There're a few variations out there but I like to have cubes of sweet potato or butternut squash in there, spinach, little nuggets of skinned sausage (I use naice Waitrose ones, the apple and pork add some sweetness) and cream. It's quick and easy: fresh ingredients are fresh tortellini, spinach, cream and sausages, and you'll need a stock cube if you want (low salt though).
Google it, there are lots of recipes (none of them authentically Italian, I suspect).

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