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Fried Pasta With Ricotta Cheese

The spicy marinara sauce is super easy to make, use organic canned tomatoes if you can, and simply remove seeds and juice inside, give it a quick whiz together with fresh basil, and season with salt and pepper.

Add sriracha if you can handle hot stuff, sweet and fairly spicy, it gives a nice kick to the marinara sauce.

Once you're happy with the taste and spiciness of your marinara sauce, move forward to the ricotta filling.

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To make the delicious filling of this tempura rigatoni, I've simply mixed some fresh organic ricotta with basil leaves and a little seasoning.

It tastes amazing just like that, but you can also get creative and try different fillings, for example, add some fresh spinach leaves, or swap the ricotta for mozzarella and mix it with some basil pesto.

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The choice of the pasta here is critical for a great result. I use bronze drawn (trafilata al bronzo) pasta.

This means the pasta dough passes through special dyes or molds made of bronze, which gives the pasta a rough surface to attract and bind the sauce perfectly.

Last but not least, panko is what makes the tempura pasta so crispy & crunchy.

Panko is a Japanese breadcrumb made from bread without crusts. It has a crisper, airier texture than most types of breadcrumbs.

Also, it stays crisp after cooking, unlike other types of breading, which can get soggy.

You can find it in most supermarkets or, alternatively go to your local Asian food store, it's worth hunting it, panko will upgrade all your favorite recipes with breadcrumbs.

For a light version of this tempura pasta you can bake the rigatoni in the oven instead of deep-frying.

I actually used my air fryer ( 180F for 10 min), but if you don't have one pop them in the oven and bake at 375F/170C until golden on both sides.

If you ask me, anytime is the perfect time to try these tempura pasta filled with ricotta & spicy marinara sauce.

They're great party material and surely entertaining, so make at least two large batches and bring them to the next picnics, barbecues or get-together events!

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