Filled Pasta

Except for tortellini and cappelletti, which will require a little bit of practice, all other filled pasta shapes are very easy to make and require no special skill. Your biggest enemy in making filled pastas will be pasta that is too dry to work with. To help avoid that problem, always keep pasta that you are not working on tightly wrapped in plastic. If using a machine, roll out only one piece of dough at a time. If you are using hand-rolled pasta cover the portion you are not working on with plastic.