Pasta Filling: Sweet Potato and Prosciutto

Serve with a Brown Butter Sauce, Brown Butter with Sage Sauce, Brown Butter with Herbs Sauce or Marinara Sauce.

1 recipe Ravioli, Pierogi or Tortellini Pasta Dough

For the filling:
2 large sweet potatoes (reddish-orange skin)
2 Italian amaretti cookies, chopped until fine in a food processor)
1 egg yolk
3 Tbsp. prosciutto, chopped
1 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
pinch ground nutmeg
sea salt
pepper, freshly cracked

Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).

Make filling:  Bake sweet potatoes until very tender, about 1 hour.  Peel potatoes and mash well.  Add cookie crumbs, egg yolk, prosciutto, Parmesan cheese, nutmeg, salt and pepper.  Combine well and cover until ready to use.

Fill and cook pasta according to dough instructions.

Makes 4 servings.