Seafood Tortellini with Parmesan Sauce
Seafood Tortellini with Parmesan Sauce
Even including homemade pasta for the Tortellini, this recipe uses prawns and crabs that are served in a creamy parmesan sauce.
Ingredients
Serves: 3
- Pasta
- 160g plain flour
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- salt and ground black pepper, to taste
- Filling
- 100g prawns, cooked and peeled
- 100g crab sticks, or fresh crab
- 250g marscapone cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- salt and ground black pepper, to taste
- Sauce
- 100g butter
- 2 cups (500ml) cream
- parmesan cheese, grated
- salt and ground black pepper, to taste
- paprika, to garnish
Directions
Preparation:1hour30min ›
Cook:15min ›
Ready in:1hour45min
- Pasta: Mix flour, cayenne pepper, salt and black pepper together. Make a well and break in eggs.
- Mix flour into eggs slowly to form dough. Knead for 10 minutes. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 20 minuntes.
- Filling: Place all the filling ingredients in a blender and whizz to a smooth paste.
- To Assemble: Roll out pasta and cut into 3cm circles. Put a little of the filling mix in the centre of each pasta circle.
- Brush edges with water then fold in half. Make sure no air is in semi-circle of pasta, seal edges.
- Roll each semi-circle of pasta round your little finger until two ends meet, squeeze to join together.
- Sauce: Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the cream and heat gently (do not boil.)
- Add the Parmesan cheese and stir until melted.Season with salt and black pepper. Keep warm while the pasta cooks.
- Cook pasta in salted boiling water for 5 minutes. Put pasta in a bowl, cover with sauce and sprinkle with paprika.
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