This recipe comes to us from self-taught chef Anna Matscher from the restaurant Gasthof zum Löwen in Tesimo in Italy's South Tyrol region.Ingredients:
Tortelloni dough:500 g flour
50 g semolina flour5 egg yolks
1 whole egga little water
Filling:½ kg Jerusalem artichokes (or substitute artichokes instead)
100 ml cream100 ml vegetable stock
salt1 shallot
a little white winesalt
Bacon foam:1 shallot
100 gr bacona little white wine
¼ liter vegetable stocksalt
a little creama little olive oil
Caraway oil:Steep 50 g caraway seeds in 100 ml olive oil at 50° Celsius for two days
Crispy Bacon:Deep fry 8 slices of bacon in the oil. When cool, chop up half the bacon.
Preparation:
Tortelloni dough:Knead all the ingredients together and set aside for half an hour. Roll out the dough and cut it into 8x8 cm squares. Using a pastry bag, squeeze the filling onto the squares, fold into tortelloni, and boil in salted water for 5 minutes.
Filling:Peel the Jerusalem artichokes and cut into small pieces. Sautéeing the shallot lightly in olive oil, add the Jerusalem artichoke, deglaze with a little white wine. Add the vegetable stock, cream, and salt. Cook until soft. Mix in a blender, and season to taste.
Bacon foam:Finely chop the shallot and bacon and sautée lightly in olive oil. Deglaze with white wine, add vegetable stock and a little cream and simmer for 10 minutes. Blend, pass through a sieve and salt to taste.
Putting it all together:Place the tortelloni on a plate. Garnish with the bacon pieces, caraway oil and bacon foam.