Home-made tortellini with prawns

Serves 4

Ingredients            

• 250g home-made pasta dough  

Filling

• 200g fresh peas, blanched and mashed
• 30g butter
• Pinch salt and pepper

Sauce

• 100g small fresh prawns
• 75g butter 
• 10g chives  
• Pinch dill
• 10g leeks
• 10g spring onions 
• 50g crushed walnuts

Method

1. Put the prawns, dill, chives, leeks, spring onions and butter in a pan and heat very gently for 3 or 4 minutes. – be careful not to burn the butter.
2. Add some crushed walnuts just before cooking is finished. 
3. Salt some boiling water and add the tortellini, cooking for 4 or 5 minutes so that the pasta remains al dente. 
4. Toss the pasta in the sauce and serve immediately.