Scatole with chickpeas and potatoes

Potatoes are wonderful. They are cheap, tasty, and fill your your stomach.
With chickpeas, they make a full and heavy meal.

Yield: 4-6 servings

Dough

• 300gr flour
• 200gr semola
• water
• some salt

Stuffing

• 700kg chickpeas, boiled and mashed
• 300gr potatoes, boiled and mashed
• pepper
• extra virgin olive oil

Once again, boil in salted water, drain and toss in a pan.
In the pan, put a lot of onion and stir fry with oil.

Scatole with chickpeas and goat cheese

Goat cheese has a strong taste, mixed with some chili powder and chickpeas is a wonderful treat for your guests.

Yield: 4-6 servings

Dough

• 300gr flour
• 200gr semola
• water
• some salt

Stuffing

• 700kg chickpeas, boiled and mashed
• 200gr goat cheese
• pepper
• extra virgin olive oil
• chili powder

Boil in salted water, drain and season with aglio, olio e peperoncino.

Scatole with chickpeas and raisins

Chickpeas go very well with raisins. Add rosemary and you got the perfect taste.

Yield: 4-6 servings

Dough

• 300gr flour
• 200gr semola
• water
• some salt

Stuffing

• 700kg chickpeas, boiled and mashed
• 100gr raisins
• pepper
• extra virgin olive oil
• rosemary

Boil in salted water. Toss in a pan with tomato sauce.

Scatole with chickpeas and leeks

Chickpeas have a nutty taste that goes very well with that of the raw leek.

Yield: 4-6 servings

Dough

• 300gr flour
• 200gr semola
• water
• some salt

Stuffing

• 700kg chickpeas, boiled and mashed
• 200gr leek
• salt
• pepper
• extra virgin olive oil

Cook as always, then season with some cherry tomatoes stir fried with some garlic and oil. Garnish with basil.

Scatole with chickpeas and cabbage

 Chickpeas are wonderful with cabbage. That's it.

Yield: 4-6 servings

Dough

• 300gr flour
• 200gr semola
• water
• some salt

Stuffing

• 700kg chickpeas, boiled and mashed
• 200gr cabbage, boiled
• salt
• pepper
• extra virgin olive oil

You know what to do. If you don't, just read the previous articles :)

They are perfect with an onion and cream sauce.

Scatole with Hummus

Chickpeas are wonderful with Tahini, a sesame paste, and some lemon juice. Here I tried to recreate it between the stuffing and the sauce


Yield: 4-6 servings

Dough

• 300gr flour
• 200gr semola
• water
• some salt

Stuffing

• 700kg chickpeas, boiled and mashed
• 150gr tahini (homemade: sesame seeds, hulled, mixed in a blender with some oil)
• salt
• pepper
• extra virgin olive oil

Boil in salted water, drain and season with an emulsion of oil and lemon juice..

Scatole with chickpeas

This week, I tried to make a new shape of pasta by using the technique for the culurgiones, but applied on four side.
The result is not as nice as in my mind, but still, it does resemble my idea. I decided to call them scatola, box.


Yield: 4-6 servings

Dough

• 300gr flour
• 200gr semola
• water
• some salt

Stuffing

• 800kg chickpeas, boiled and mashed
• salt
• pepper
• extra virgin olive oil

Put the stuffing on a 12cm square of pasta

Boil in salted water, drain and enjoy in tomato sauce.

Culurgiones with sweet potatoes and zucchini

The last episode of culurgiones is the following.

Yield: 4-6 servings

Dough

• 300gr flour
• 200gr semola
• water
• some salt

Stuffing

• 1kg sweet potatoes, boiled and peeled
• 300gr goat cheese, cut in small cubes
• 200gr zucchini, stir fried with onion
• salt
• extra virgin olive oil

Cook in salted boiling water, then toss in a frying pan with aglio, olio e peperoncino sauce.

Culurgiones with sweet potato and gorgonzola

 If you use a sweet potato, what's going to happen?

Yield: 4-6 servings

Dough

• 300gr flour
• 200gr semola
• water
• some salt

Stuffing

• 1kg sweet potatoes, boiled and peeled
• 300gr gorgonzola, cut in small cubes
• salt
• extra virgin olive oil

Boil in salted water, the toss in a frying pan with some cream. Add some walnuts.

Culurgiones with mozzarella

A simple version of Culurgiones, yet very tasty.

Yield: 4-6 servings

Dough

• 300gr flour
• 200gr semola
• water
• some salt

Stuffing

• 1kg potatoes, boiled and peeled
• 300gr mozzarella, cut in small cubes
• salt
• extra virgin olive oil

If you know Sugo alla Norma, consider that the mozzarella is already inside.
Boil in salted water, then toss in a frying pan with a tomato sauce made with fried aubergine chunks.

Culurgiones with zucchini

One more vegan way of making culurgiones. Although the sauce is not vegan.

Yield: 4-6 servings

Dough

• 300gr flour
• 200gr semola
• water
• some salt

Stuffing

• 1kg potatoes, boiled and peeled
• 300gr zucchini, stir fried with onion
• salt
• extra virgin olive oil

Boil in salted water, then toss in a pan with red peppers stir fried with onions and some cream. Add salt and pepper to taste.