Fried Tortellini Recipe
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Fried Tortellini Recipe is great crunchy week dinner, ready to serve under 30 minutes. Golden brown bites can also be served as an easy appetizer for a crowd!
This is an easy, budget friendly way to feed a crowd with Italian pasta! The batch we had is stuffed with prosciutto but you may also use cheese tortellini or any other type you love. Three cups of pre packaged tortellini feed four adults, once boiled and pan fried!
What are tortellini?
They are pasta, round shaped, filled with pork loin, prosciutto, mortadella, or cheese. Quite similar to these are tortolloni. The difference is in the size. Tortelloni are larger than delicate little tortellini. While tortelloni is traditionally filled with a combination of vegetarian ingredients, tortellini usually features meat filling.
This recipe shows pan fried tortellini version. We prefer them because they are smaller.
You need to boil your batch of tortellini before deep fried or pan fried. Please cook them al dente, which means two minutes less then package instructions say. The reason to do it this way is to avoid soggy texture once fried covered with bread crumb mixture.
What are different types of tortellini?
Tortellini pasta falls into the category of filling-wrapped pasta. Variations include: cheese tortellini, chicken tortellini or baked tortellini. Generally it is ‘fatter’ than ravioli. Like cappelletti, tortellini is roughly ring shaped and is made by folding a single piece of pasta dough. For 44 types of pasta to learn about go here .
What is the difference between tortellini and ravioli?
Ravioli are usually square, with a flat underside and rounded top, with edges cut at a sharp angle and sometimes frilled with a fork. Tortellini are ring or navel-shaped, at times resembling a tiny croissant or even a wonton.
And, just before you scroll down for the detailed recipe, let me say I was curious about all sorts of stuffed pasta since we made Vareniki , and it led me to look for detailed explanation of all the others. Here are stuffed pasta types explained amazingly with related recipes links !
Worth to have a detailed look guys!
Fried Tortellini Recipe
Fried Tortellini Recipe is great crunchy week dinner, ready to serve under 30 minutes. Golden brown bites can also be served as an easy appetizer for a crowd!
Ingredients
- 3 cups prosciutto tortellini
- 1 cup olive oil
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups bread crumbs
- Parmesan cheese to garnish and favorite sauce,optional
Instructions
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Cook tortellini according to packing instructions but boil them 2 minutes less to have al dente ones. Drain them.
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Prepare 3 shallow bowls: one for whisked eggs,second for flour and third for bread crumbs.
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First, cover precooked tortellini with flour.
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Dip one third of flour covered tortellini into whisked eggs.
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Transfer egg washed tortellini into bread crumbs bowl and cover them all over. Repeat with remaining tortellini.
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Fry in heated olive oil in small batches ( 3 )on both sides until they become golden brown. It took me 2 minutes on each side.
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Serve immediately sprinkled with finely grated parmesan and your favourite sauce.
Recipe Notes
Notes:
- My tortellini directions advised 10 minutes of boiling. I boiled them 2 minutes less to have al dente pasta.
- One batch needs 4 minutes of frying, 2 minutes on each side. Since I fried three batches, all together it needed 12 minutes.
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