Tortellini/Cappelletti

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    as a main course
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
How to Cook Italian

By Giuliano Hazan

Published 2005

  • About

Cappelletti are shaped somewhat like a bishop’s hat; hence the name, which comes from the Italian word for hat, cappello. In Bologna they are also called tortellini; but in Romagna tortellini are made from little disks instead of little squares making them look more like a belly button than a hat. In fact, there is a legend about how the first round tortellino was created. Once upon a time there was a baker and pasta maker who was secretly and madly in love with a girl who worked for