Definition of "tortellino"

Pick the tortellino up and twist it around your index finger until the edges meet.

1996, Leonardo Castellucci, Pastissima!: Pasta the Italian Way, published 1997, page 123

At that time, the only machine available on the market was able to produce a ring-shaped tortellino and was fitted with a continuous threaded screw device to put the filling in the tortellino. As this was unsuitable for the home-made kind of tortellino Giovanni had in mind, he asked for specific modifications to the machine.

2013, Balmer, John M. T., Illia, Laura, González del Valle Brena, Almudena, editors, Contemporary Perspectives on Corporate Marketing: Contemplating Corporate Branding, Marketing and Communications in the Twenty-first Century, Routledge

There is always that one tortellino that bursts in the boiling water.

2020, Camilla Pang, Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships, Penguin Books