Pansotti with Broccoli and Nuts in Beans Sauce


Servings: 4
INGREDIENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. It should be prepared in advance: Mix the flour in a bowl or on a pastry board along with the wine, a pinch of salt and some lukewarm water necessary to form a homogeneous mixture; cover with a damp cloth and let rest for an hour.
  2. Rinse the beans from the soaking and pour into a saucepan with 700 ml of water and the bay leaves. Bring to a boil, salt lightly and cook gently, let the liqid dry almost completely.
  3. Fry the sliced onions in a pan with the lid on low heat, together with the ginger and 3-4 tablespoons of oil for 20 minutes. Add this fried to the cooked beans, remove the bay leaf and blend all finely.
  4. Boil the broccoli florets for 10 minutes in scarce salted water. In the meanwhile, lightly toast the hazelnuts in a pan for 5 minutes, turning often, eliminating as much as possible the brown skins , let them cool and whisk together with the tofu. Drain the broccoli and then maintaine the water warm, mash them with a fork and mix with the nuts, the tofu and with grated nutmeg.
  5. Roll out the rested dough into thin sheets, brush them with a little water and get rounds of 8 cm in diameter with a mold or a glass. Place the filling of broccoli in the center of each, close the pansotti and seal the edges with the tines of a fork.
  6. Boil the pansotti for 5 minutes in the scarce broccoli water brought to a boil again, remove them with a slotted spoon and toss with the sauce of beans and a drizzle of oil. Garnish the dishes with a few whole hazelnuts.