Stuffed

Stuffed pasta inverts the rules. Everywhere else the sauce carries the flavor and the pasta carries the sauce. Here the flavor is sealed inside, and the dough exists to protect it. That is why the family's canonical dressings are the quietest in the repertoire: melted butter with one herb, or broth, the oldest serving method on record. Every region folds its parcels differently and names them jealously. The geometry varies, the principle never does: do not bury the filling.

Compare the family

Shape	Section	Cook (min)	Surface
Agnolotti	square pillow (smaller rectangular form for del plin)	3	smooth
Anolini	small round disc or crested half-moon parcel stamped from egg sheet, edge smooth or serrated, a single mound of filling sealed inside	n/a	smooth
Balanzoni	square or rectangular sheet folded and pinched into a filled tortellone-style parcel	n/a	smooth
Cappellacci	a square of egg sfoglia folded over a squash filling and pinched into a peaked hat, larger and coarser than cappelletti	n/a	smooth
Cappelletti	filled hat-shaped parcel	4	smooth
Caramelle	candy-wrapper filled parcel pinched at both ends	2-3	smooth
Casoncelli	sealed filled parcel, folded into a half-moon around Bergamo or twisted at both ends like a candy wrapper in the Valle Camonica	n/a	smooth
Casunziei	half-moon parcel, two thin dough sheets pressed together at the rim like a raviolo and folded into a crescent	n/a	smooth
Cjarsons	a half-moon parcel, dough folded over filling and crimped or pleated along the curved edge	n/a	smooth
Culurgiones	pleated parcel with a wheat-ear seam	n/a	smooth
Marubini	sealed stuffed parcel, thin egg sfoglia folded over a meat-and-cheese filling, stamped round or square	n/a	smooth
Mezzelune	half-moon filled parcel	3-4	smooth
Pansotti	triangular parcel of thin egg dough folded over a greens-and-cheese filling, sealed into a rounded, pot-bellied form	n/a	smooth
Ravioli	two sheets sealed around a filling, square or round	3-6	smooth
Scarpinocc	small shoe-shaped parcel, an egg-dough disc folded into a half-moon and pressed at the center so it bows into a wrapped-candy form, 3 to 4 cm wide and 8 to 14 g each	n/a	smooth
Tortelli	two sheets of egg sfoglia sealed around a filling into a flat square or rectangle, the regional fillings change but the flat sealed parcel does not	n/a	smooth
Tortellini	sealed ring, a square of sfoglia folded into a triangle over the filling, then wrapped around the finger and pinched closed	3	smooth
Tortelloni	square folded into a stuffed parcel	3-5	smooth

Agnolotti

ah-nyoh-LOT-tee (Italian [aɲɲoˈlɔtti]; Piedmontese [aɲʊˈlɔt])