Find the word definition

Crossword clues for tortellini

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tortellini

1937, from Italian, plural of tortellino, diminutive of tortello "cake, fritter," itself a diminutive of torta (see torte).

Wiktionary
tortellini

n. small, ring-shaped pasta, stuffed with meat, cheese etc; eaten with a sauce or in a soup

WordNet
tortellini

n. small ring-shaped stuffed pasta

Wikipedia
Tortellini

Tortellini are ring-shaped pasta, sometimes also described as " navel shaped", hence their alternative name of "belly button" (ombelico). They are typically stuffed with a mix of meat (pork loin, prosciutto) or cheese. Originally from the Italian region of Emilia (in particular Bologna and Modena), they are usually served in broth, either of beef, chicken, or both.

Packed, refrigerated or frozen, tortellini and tortelloni (similar but larger, with cheese and/or vegetable stuffing) appear in many locations around the world, especially where there are large Italian communities. Tortellini and tortelloni are made in European industrial lines supplying markets in Europe and further afield. "Fresh" packed tortellini usually have 7 weeks of shelf-life.

Usage examples of "tortellini".

Fifteen pounds of cold tortellini salad, two hundred miniature asparagus tarts, three platters of herbed goat cheese, and a hundred and fifty spring rolls had no doubt been loaded back into the Right Touch Catering van.

Eliette were well behaved during the meal, though it was soon apparent that tortellini in pesto sauce was not their favorite dish.

Well, save Jeanie Tortellini, the town sheriff, and sometimes Candice, the high school English teacher.

Jeanie Tortellini tried to assist her but the wind blew the woman backward.

Jeanie Tortellini ran across the churchyard, yelling, trying to regain control.

Servas returned home, Scott called and asked her to reconsider, telling her that he had added tortellini to the menu.

Christmas Day, when he invited his neighbor Karen Servas to dinner, offering to prepare her a separate meal of tortellini less than twenty-four hours after Laci went missing.

Putting my precious discoveries on the kitchen table, I delved in the fridge, found a package of tortellini and a jar of Italian pasta sauce.

They offer tortellini and cappuccino, boldly proclaimed in the window as if everyone in town just naturally knows what they are.

Unfortunately, Im not going to be able to freeze the tortellini salad.

There, seated at a table with the Right Touch staff, Stark had eaten a surprising quantity of the tortellini and asparagus tarts that had cost him so dearly.

Roman emperor spilling tortellini down your front and drinking wine through a bent straw are you?

I promised Grace to trade her my recipe for tortellini for hers for fried chicken.

Or maybe some tortellini I parked in front of my place on Marlborough Street and went in.

He imagined her body floating there, red cuts on her neck, her pale heavyset corpse as bloated as a sausage tortellini in broth, her gray cropped hair waving like a sea anemone.