One of my favourite things to make in the whole world is pasta. Especially stuffed pasta. It is laborious and intricate, but because of that, it is so fulfilling to accomplish. Today’s post is featuring an Italian classic- Cappelletti. These beautiful, plump pastas are usually stuffed with a very simple meat based or cheese based filling, and are shaped into a “little hat” (as the name quite literally means). I have nothing against a simple cheese filling, but I always seem to want a little more to my filling than just cheese. Without straying too far from tradition, I have been experimenting with adding different roasted vegetables to my pasta fillings, other than butternut squash. This and spinach seem to be the two vegetables very commonly used in stuffed pastas, and frankly I am bored of it. There are so many vegetable possibilities, why are we often stuck with just two options? I have started my explorations with one of my favourite vegetables- roasted cauliflower.
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