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Beetroot Tortellaci with chickpea stuffing
2020-11-28

Ingredients
For the fiilling
- 1 x 400g tin chickpeas, rinsed and drained
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 tsp tahina
- Juice and zest 1 lime
- 1 red chilli, finely diced
- Chopped parsley
- 1 sweet potato, cooked and mashed
For the fresh pasta
- 200g cooked beetroot
- 350g flour
- 1 egg (Le Naturelle)
- Pinch salt
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
For the sauce
- 200g pumpkin, diced
- 1 onion, chopped
- 150ml cream (Elmlea)
- Good pinch grated nutmeg
- 1 tbsp. butter
- You will also need baby spinach and crushed hazelnuts to decorate
Method
Wizz the beetroot into a smooth puree, whizz in the egg & a pinch of salt.
Add the olive oil and flour and knead into a stiff smooth dough.
To make the fresh pasta, place all the ingredients together into a food processor, season well with salt and whiz to a smooth paste. Allow to sit for 30 minutes before using. Meanwhile, make the sauce by placing the diced pumpkin, onion and nutmeg in a small saucepan. Pour in the cream, season with salt and pepper and cook on a low heat for 10 minutes until the pumpkin is cooked. Remove off the heat, add in the butter and blitz till smooth. For the pasta stuffing, just blitz all the ingredients together to a smooth paste. To make the tortellacci, roll the dough out into a 2mm thick sheets using a pasta machine and cut into 6 cm square. Brush the edges lightly with water and pipe a small amount of the filling into each square. Fold over in half to form a triangle and press the edges together well. Press the 2 points together and bring the centre point to the back. Cook the tortellacci in boiling water for just a minute or two and serve on plates on top of the creamy pumpkin sauce and decorated with the spinach leaves and hazelnuts.
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Tortellacci tal-pitravi biċ-ċiċri
Ingredients
Għall-għaġina
- 200g pitravi msajra
- 350g dqiq
- bajda
- ftit melħ
- mgħarfa żejt taż-żebbuġa
Għall-mili
- 2 laned ċiċri
- sinna tewm
- kuċċarina tahini
- qoxra u meraq ta’ luminċell
- bżar aħmar imqatta’ fin
- tursin imqatta’
- patata ħelwa mgħaffġa
Għaz-zalza
- 200g qargħa
- basla
- 2 imgħaref butir
- tazza krema
- noċemuskata maħkuka
- spinaċi
- ġellewż
Method
Biex tagħmel l-għaġin frisk, poġġi l-ingredjenti kollha flimkien fi processor tal-ikel, ħawwar sew bil-melħ u ħawwad sakemm isir pejst. Ħalli l-għaġna toqgħod għal 30 minuta qabel ma tużaha. Sadanittant, ibda pprepara z-zalza billi tpoġġi l-qargħa mqattgħa, il-basla u n-noċemuskata f’kazzola żgħira. Ferra’ l-krema, ħawwar bil-melħ u l-bżar u sajjar fuq nar baxx għal 10 minuti sakemm il-qargħa tkun imsajra. Neħħi minn fuq in-nar, żid il-butir u ħawwad. Għall-mili tal-għaġin, ħawwad l-ingredjenti kollha flimkien f’pejst. Biex tagħmel it-tortellacci, irrombla l-għaġina f’folji ħoxnin ta’ 2mm billi tuża magna tal-għaġin u aqta’ f’6 ċm kwadru. Idlek it-truf bl-ilma u ippajpja ammont żgħir tal-mili f’kull kwadru. Itwi min-nofs biex tifforma trijanglu u agħfas it-truf flimkien sew. Agħfas iż-żewġ punti flimkien u ġib il-punt taċ-ċentru fuq wara. Sajjar it-tortellacci f’ilma jagħli għal minuta jew tnejn biss u servi fuq platti fuq iz-zalza tal-qargħa ħamra kremuża u mżejna bil-weraq tal-ispinaċi u l-ġellewż.
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