ORECCHIETTE RIDGED SHELL SHAPED PASTA, 500G IN SOUTH AFRICA

For over 100 years, De Cecco have been producing top quality pasta, drawn through bronze dies, and crafted with care. Made to age-old recipes with thoroughly modern techniques, De Cecco pasta is the shot of Italian authenticity that every kitchen needs. Orechiette, means 'little ears', and is a curved, ridged shell shape. Also known as 'strascicati' or 'strascinati', it is very common in Pugliese cuisine Traditionally blanched with broccoli or potatoes and then served with tomato sauce sprinkled with pecorino cheese, garlic and a drop of oil. They are also called 'recchie' and served with rich meat, vegetable or lamb and ricotta ragùs Made from high quality semolina flour (yellow, high protein finely ground durum wheat flour) Size: between 1.25 and 1.35mm thick in the dome part and between 1.38 and 1.45mm in the brim