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Step 1
For the homemade pasta dough
Step 4
Place the flour on your working surface and make a well in its center. Add in the eggs, lightly beaten, the olive oil, and the salt.
Step 5
Mix with a fork, incorporating a little flour at a time. When the dough starts forming and you aren’t able to continue mixing with the fork, start kneading with your hands.
Step 6
At first, the dough will stick to your fingers but if you knead it constantly for at least 10 minutes, you will see it thickening and getting the desired consistency. If you want, you can make the dough in the mixer, too.
Step 7
When it’s ready (it will have a velvety texture and it won’t stick to your hands anymore), wrap it in plastic wrap so that it doesn’t dry, and let it rest for 30-60 minutes.
Step 10
For the stuffing
Step 13
In a pot add half of the butter, the onion, the beef, and sauté until the meat is golden brown.
Step 14
Add the rosemary, the garlic, the flour, and mix very well.
Step 15
Add the tomato sauce, salt, and sauté for 1 more minute. Then, add the stock.
Step 16
Lower the heat, cover the pot, and simmer for about 1 hour until the meat is very tender.
Step 17
Drain the meat, remove the rosemary, and put the sauce aside.
Step 18
In a pot, heat the spinach until it wilts. Drain it and add it to the meat.
Step 19
Transfer the meat along with the spinach into a food processor.
Step 20
Add half of the parmesan, the egg yolk, the nutmeg, and process until there is a uniform mixture.
Step 21
Add the stuffing in a pastry bag and refrigerate it for 30 minutes until it thickens.
Step 24
For the agnolotti
Step 27
With a rolling pin or a pasta maker, roll out the dough into a long, thin sheet.
Step 28
With a pastry bag, shape a line with the stuffing along the sheet, 1-2 cm away from the edges of the side that is in front of you.
Step 29
Cover the stuffing with the sheet that is in front of you, and -with your hands- roll the side with the stuffing twice inwards (technically, you will create a thin roll with the stuffing at its center).
Step 30
With a pastry cutter wheel or with a knife, cut the remaining dough lengthwise (that is, what is left after double-rolling the dough).
Step 31
Starting from the beginning of the roll, “divide” it into pieces using your fingers (do not cut them, simply shape cavities along the roll).
Step 32
Then, with the pastry cutter wheel, cut the right and left sides (where the cavities are), creating the agnolotti.
Step 33
In the end, you will have created small, rectangular pieces that will have the stuffing at the center.
Step 34
In a pot, boil the agnolotti in salted water, for 5-7 minutes.
Step 35
Drain them and put aside 50-70 g of the water where the pasta boiled.
Step 36
In a small frying pan, add the sauce that you put aside when you drained the meat.
Step 37
Add the rest of the butter and the water from the pasta that you put aside.
Step 38
Add in the agnolotti and boil them for 2 minutes.
Step 39
Serve right away, sprinkling with the rest of the parmesan and a little finely chopped parsley.