Tortellini, Italian Style (Agnellotti)
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- 300 g pork loin chops
- 1 lamb brain
- 50 g beef marrow
- 50 g grated Parmesan
- 3 egg yolks
- nutmeg
Instructions
- Bone, trim and cook the pork chops in butter with salt and pepper (or use 200 g turkey breast); finely chop or pound the meat.
- Mix in the blanched, skinned brain, raw beef marrow, Parmesan, yolks and nutmeg.
- Enclose the filling in an egg-pasta sheet and fold as for cappelletti, but much smaller (about 37 mm discs).