Anolini or cappelletti are a traditional Christmas dish from Parma, Italy. They are pasta pockets filled with a meat-based ragu sauce. To make the filling, meat and vegetables are cooked in butter with wine and broth to create a rich, long-cooked ragu. This filling is then combined with breadcrumbs, cheese, and eggs. For the dough, flour, eggs, salt and water are kneaded together and rolled thin. The filling is placed in rows on the dough and covered, then cut into rounds. The anolini are boiled and served in broth with more cheese.

1. Project: I DARE YOU
What do we eat at Christmas?

2. ANOLINI or CAPPELLETTI

3. The "anolini" or "cappelletti" are a typical
dish of Parma which is traditionally eaten at
Christmas dinner. It is an ancient dish and it
was already known in 1500. The term
"anolini" comes from "anulus", the Latin
word meaning ring, still the tool to cut a
semi-circular ring is called.
Watch the video of preparation of anolini but…
in Italian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALTx1Svat-U

4. 400 GR BEEF TOMATO PAST
150 GR , breadcrumbs 1 SAUSAGE
60 GR Butter
Ingredients for SALT & PEPPER
the filling
1 nutmeg
celery
1 carrot 1 ONION
2 cups of broth 2 eggs 200 GR Parmesan
1 GLASS RED WINE

5. Ingredients for the dough
Salt
500 GR flour
5 eggs

6. Prepare the filling:
In a saucepan , preferably earthenware, let melt the
butter with carrot and celery , whole onion .
When everything is well colored, add the meat and sausage skinned .
Once the meat has browned, sprinkle with red wine and let it evaporate.
Then add salt and pepper , pour the broth in which you have diluted the
tomato paste , cover and, over low heat, cook for 2 hours at the end the meat
should be overcooked and the sauce restricted. Spend all the mincer.
In a bowl, pick up the minced meat with its sauce, breadcrumbs , grated cheese
and eggs, flavored with a pinch of nutmeg , stir and mix well.

7. Prepare the dough:
You have the flour in the center shelled eggs
salt and add a little water or better a tablespoon of oil, knead until a soft
but firm mass.
Pull a thin sheet , aligned rows of different piles of filling , cover
with compressing the edges of the dough with your fingers.
Cut Anolini with a cutter.
Cook the beef broth and serve with grated cheese.
Enjoy your

8. And you?
What do you eat
at Christmas??