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Brown Butter Tortelli
Photo: Sorin Gheorghita

Brown Butter Tortelli

7 ingredients 5 min + 10 min Serves 2. You can easily double or triple the recipe to feed more. openrecipes
Brown Butter Tortelli

A few more Rome pics & a simple pasta dish made from ricotta-stuffed tortelli tossed with brown butter balsamic sauce, arugula, pecorino cheese, and lemon zest.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

452
Calories
19g
Protein
20g
Fat
48g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Pasta 1 cup cooked (140g) 220
Parmesan Cheese 1 oz (28g) 110
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Arugula 1 cup (20g) 5
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • one dozen fresh tortelli pasta
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 tablespoons aged balsamic vinegar
  • fine grain sea salt
  • grated zest of one lemon
  • 2 - 3 big handfuls of torn arugula or other bitter/spicy greens
  • plenty of grated fresh pecorino or Parmesan cheese

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By 101cookbooks · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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