Authentic Tortellini in Broth, my Grandmother's Unforgettable Recipe

ground beef

🥗Healthier: ground turkey

💰Cheaper: ground chicken

Ground turkey is leaner, while ground chicken is often less expensive.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grana padano

Nutritional yeast provides a cheesy flavor with fewer calories, while grana padano is a more affordable cheese.

Melt butter in a skillet over medium-high heat.

Add pork loin and cook for a couple of minutes per side to brown it.

Add salt and deglaze the pan with white wine or water, letting it evaporate.

Reduce heat and continue cooking the meat until fully cooked through.

Remove meat from skillet and let cool completely before dicing finely.

Dice cooked pork, ham, and mortadella finely and add to a food processor to mince as finely as possible.

In a bowl, combine meat mixture with Parmesan cheese, nutmeg, and egg.

Cover filling with plastic wrap and let rest in refrigerator until ready to fill tortellini, preferably overnight.

Create a mound with flour on a clean work surface and form a well in the center; crack eggs into it.

Using a fork, gradually incorporate flour into eggs, working from the inside out.

Once mixture becomes too thick for fork, use hands to knead dough to form an elastic dough ball.

Wrap dough ball tightly in plastic wrap and let rest at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Roll out pasta dough until it reaches a thickness of about 1 mm.

Cut pasta sheet into squares approximately 3 cm wide.

Place a teaspoon of filling in the center of each square.

Fold each square diagonally into a triangular shape, then overlap the two corner angles at the base while wrapping around your fingertip to seal.

Place ready-made tortellini on a tray for drying or on a floured surface in a single layer.

Bring broth to a gentle boil and carefully add homemade tortellini; cook for 2-3 minutes or until they float to the surface.

Use a ladle to remove tortellini and broth into deep bowls or plates; ladle more broth over the top and add grated nutmeg or Parmesan cheese if desired.

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