Creative Leftovers

Baked Tortellini

Ingredients:
Left over Spicy tomato pepper sauce about 3 cups
1/2 lb ground (mince) beef (optional any minced meat of your choice or bulk Italian sausage)
Package of fresh 4 cheese tortellini (or fresh stuffed pasta of your choice)
Grated Parmesan cheese
Fresh mozzarella cheese ball or shredded
I bunch of fresh basil
pinch of ground mustard
shake of cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup approx evaporated milk or skim milk
salt, pepper

In a large sauce pan bring water to boil. preheat oven to 400F or 190/200C.

Add salt and pepper to minced beef. In a large skillet on high heat brown the minced beef, drain and return to pan. Reduce heat to medium add left over spicy tomato pepper sauce to the brown beef. make white sauce.

White Sauce
On low/medium heat in a small sauce pan heat and whisk together butter, four, mustard, dash of cayenne pepper and salt. After 3 mins whisk in the evaporated milk, keep whisking till smooth. Add a handful of grated Parmesan cheese. Turn heat to low. The sauce will thicken it should be a medium constancy so more milk my be added.

Add tortellini to salted boiling water. cook for 2 mins and drain. Add to the simmering meat sauce. Add pasta and meat sauce to a casserole dish. Pour white sauce over top. Slice mozzarella cheese in to medium thickness rounds or if using shredded 1-2cups cover the white sauce with cheese. Separate the basil leaves from the bunch and layer in between cheese slices. bake in oven till edges start to brown (approx 20 mins.).

Serve with salad and bread. should feed 2-4 adults.