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SORRENTINOS




Source of Recipe


Chef Charito


Recipe Introduction


Stuffed pasta


Recipe Link: http://members.shaw.ca/sharongreene/Charito.html

List of Ingredients




Dough:
400grs. (1lb) All purpose flour,
salt to taste
1 egg
boiling water

Filling:
300 grs. (12oz) mozzarella pizza cheese
300 grs (12oz) cooked ham
300 grs. (12oz) Cottage cheese


Recipe



Mix the flour with the salt and the egg, and enough boiling water to make a soft but not sticky dough. Knead.

Add a pinch of pepper and a spoon of finely chopped basil
to the cottage cheese and leave for four hours.

Cut the ham and cheese into tiny cubes and mix with the prepared cottage cheese.

Knead the dough and roll thinly.

Cut into rectangles the size of the mould for sorrentinos
if you have one (they come individually, in eight or in 12)
fill moistened around the filling add another rectangle of dough to cover and go over with the rolling pin to separate.

If you don’t have a special mould, put dessert spoon of fillings in heaps on a rectangle evenly spaced, moisten around them.

Put another rectangle to cover.

Press lightly around filling and the cut to separate.

Cook in abundant boiling water for five minutes and serve hot with tomato sauce.

Tomato Sauce:
Lightly fry an onion, 1-2 cloves garlic and a strip of red pepper all finely chopped, add tomato puree, salt pepper and oregano to taste and simmer very gentle for an hour.

Pour over hot sorrentinos and sprinkle generously with grated cheese. A little unwhisked cream can also be added if liked.

Makes five to six portions