Twisted pasta
Strozzapreti
Quick answer
Strozzapreti are hand-rolled twisted lengths with a joking name about greedy priests.
Strozzapreti means "priest stranglers" in Italian.
Best sauces: sausage ragù, butter and sage. Match the shape to the sauce — long thin pasta for oil and light sauces, tubes and ridges for chunky or meaty sauces, flat egg ribbons for rich ragù and butter.
- Type
- Twisted
- Origin
- Emilia-Romagna / Umbria
- Best with
- sausage ragù, butter and sage
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