Tortelli cremaschi

Name: Tortelli cremaschi (Trattoria Toscanini, Ripalta Guerina (Cremona))
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: grated Grana Padano cheese; 500 g plain flour; salt; butter; 1 pinch of salt; 1 egg; 50 g grated Grana Padano cheese; grated nutmeg; 80 ml dry Marsala; 2 white mint candies; 50 g sultanas; 25 g candied citron peel; grated zest of ½ lemon; 150 g amaretti biscuits; ½ mostaccino biscuit or other spiced biscuit; ½ mostaccino biscuit or other spiced biscuit

Trattoria Toscanini, Ripalta Guerina (Cremona)

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 30

Appears in

Recipes from Milan and Lombardy

By Slow Food

Published 2018

About

Ingredients

For the filling

150 g amaretti biscuits
½ mostaccino biscuit or other spiced biscuit
2

Europe
Italy
Ripalta Guerina
Milan
Rome
Cremona
Starter
Lombardy
Vegetarian
Pasta
Mediterranean

Method

Prepare the filling the day before, as it must rest in the refrigerator for at least 12 hours.

Crush the amaretti, mostaccino and mints. Soak the sultanas in warm water until soft, then drain, squeeze out and finely chop. Mince the citron peel. Mix together the amaretti, mostaccino, mints, sultanas, citron peel, lemon zest, grated Grana, egg, Marsala, a grating of nutmeg and a pinch of