What to cook with tortellini?

nic82

Last night I bought some fresh cheese and tomato stuffed tortellini from Tesco at the rather inflated price of £1.59 for 600g. I usually buy the £1 3kg bags from Tesco but my defence is that I got some extra clubcard points if I bought it (not enough to make it free, but I don't think I've had tortellini before, so am using it as an excuse to try it)

Anyway, I've decided to have it for dinner tonight but am stuck what to cook it with :rolleyes:. I was tempted to just make a basic tomato, garlic and herb sauce to pour over it or is that not the done thing to do with pasta that's already stuffed? I think it'd be a bit dry if just cooked it and served it plain

Thanks in advance guys!

HappyIdiotTalk

Cream or Sour Cream. And some nice bread!

Fivenations

I would keep it simple - melted butter and freshly grated parmesan cheese.

nic82

Both of the suggestions sound lovely, so think I'll let BF decide when he comes home from work.

Thank you

zombiecazz

some pesto and sauted veg would be lovely

nic82

zombiecazz wrote: »

some pesto and sauted veg would be lovely

Ooh, that sounds delicious too. Thank you

belfastgirl23

I would usually just use some kind of tomato sauce and maybe some cheese if I fancied it. It is very dry on its own

Rowan_2

once you have cooked the pasta, and the sauce, add the sauce to the pasta and mix it all up in one pan rather than pour the sauce over it, works great.

I usually make a fairly plain herby tomato sauce, sometimes with a little cream cheese or ricotta, sometimes with some smoked sausage. Whatever way you cook it, its gonna be tasty

Stephen_Leak

nic82 wrote: »

I was tempted to just make a basic tomato, garlic and herb sauce to pour over it or is that not the done thing to do with pasta that's already stuffed?

Its how you would get it in Italy.

Starter: Slice a big tomato, onion (not compulsory, especially for "romantic" dinners!) and a dollop of mozzarella. Arrange slices artistically on small plates, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with chopped basil. Also some foccaccia bread.

Main Course: Tortellini with simple "ragu" sauce (using the rest of the basil) and topped with grated parmesan cheese. Also the remainder of the foccaccia bread to mop up the sauce.

Dessert: Tiramisu, from chilled shelf/cabinet (S*d it, its far too fiddly to make yourself)!

A meal, fit for a Roman emperor, not just a King.

The tortellini that is half green, half "white" is fun as, with the red sauce, you have the colours of the Italian flag. A lot of tortellini varieties don't contain meat, which is useful if there is any possiblity your guest might tell you at the last minute that they are vegetarian. If they are vegan, you're b*gg*r*d because of all the cheese, but you should have spotted this about them from their eyebrows and ears!

Quasar

the tomato, garlic and basil sauce is what we would dress it with in Italy most of the time, however the other suggestions are also quite apt.