Recipe: How to make fresh egg pasta tortellini

Luke Stuart of WhitePepper Chef Academy shares his step-by-step guide to making tortellini

This is the basic recipe for fresh egg pasta, which I then make into tortellini. I have suggested a ricotta filling in this recipe, but you can create your own filling. Follow my step-by-step guide to making the tortellini by clicking on the video below.

Folding over the pasta discs to make the tortellini Photo WhitePepper Academy (Image: Archant)

Ingredients:

240g strong flour

pinch turmeric

7g salt

5g oil

116g egg

A little extra egg white

Method

1. Place the pasta ingredients into a food processor and blend until thoroughly mixed.

2. Empty onto a clean work surface and bring together to form a reasonably dry dough.

3. Wrap and rest the dough for at least 30 minutes.

4. Once rested, use a pasta machine to roll the pasta thinly (if you don’t have a pasta machine use a long rolling pin).

5 Make large tortellini by cutting 8.5cm discs.

6. Pipe or spoon the filling onto each disc just off-centre (see suggested filling recipe).

7. Brush a little egg white around the edge of each disc, then fold the pasta disc in half to encase the filling, don’t overfill. Carefully remove any air pockets, before pinching the two-pointed ends together with your fingers

Suggested filling:

200g ricotta

50g parmesan, grated

¼ lemon, zest

3 large basil leaves, shredded

sea salt & ground pepper

Method: Mix together the cheeses, lemon and basil, season generously with salt and pepper. Place into a piping bag or spoon directly onto the prepared pasta discs.

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