Swiss Chard Tortelloni with Tomato Sauce

Name: Swiss Chard Tortelloni with Tomato Sauce
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: ¼ cup heavy cream; Freshly ground black pepper; 2 ounces thinly sliced prosciutto; Salt; 1 cup whole-milk ricotta cheese; 3 tablespoons butter; 1 egg yolk; ¾ cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano; ⅛ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; 1 recipe Egg Pasta of Emilia-Romagna, made with 2 eggs and 1½ cups flour, dough prepared but not yet rolled; ½ medium yellow onion; 1 recipe My Mother’s Butter, Tomato, and Onion Sauce; 2 pounds Swiss chard

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 45

Appears in

Hazan Family Favorites

By Giuliano Hazan

Published 2012

About

I confess I never know what to answer to a reporter’s inevitable question: “What is your favorite dish?” Its too hard to choose one! If I really had to, this would probably be it. I am as enamored of these tortelloni today as I was when I was little boy and my grandmother on my mother’s side, Nonna Mary, made them for me. I can taste them as I am writing this and can’t wait until the next time I make them. While the rest of my family usually requests lasagne on their birthd