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WHAT ARE AND HOW TO MAKE TESTAROLI OF LUNIGIANA

The testaroli are a pasta variety traditional of The Lunigiana, a valley situated across the borders of Tuscany and Liguria. Their name is due to the particular tool used for making them, called "testo". This kind of pasta is very easy to make , but also very different from other pasta varieties. At first for its ingredients, an half semolina flour and the other half common wheat flour. Then for its consistency: it is the only pasta with a porous and rather soft consistency. These characteristics make  it a pasta which combines very well with creamy sauces, taking all their flavours, giving back into you mouth a very particular and intense taste. After that it is the only pasta variety that you must not knead, it is liquid, but with a dense consistence.

The recipes are proposed in order of arrival. The recipes are split into two pages: the ingredients table, with doses, cooking time and notes about ingredients and cooking techniques, linked to the text. The step-by-step explained and photographed recipe, with pictures of the finished dish and of each preparation step, is linked to the picture.

The  step-by-step photographed recipes with testaroli of Lunigiana presented by Italian Homemade Cooking

testaroli with fresh tuna

FIRST COURSE

 

testaroli with fresh tunaa very tasty recipe for the testaroli, combined with tuna4
testaroli with porcini mushrooms sauce

FIRST COURSE

testaroli with porcini mushroomsa traditional recipe for the testaroli easy to make in every season and with a very particular taste3
testaroli with pesto Genovese

FIRST COURSE

testaroli with pesto Genovese

 

The testaroli of Lunigiana are a magnificent recipe of Pontremoli, during the summer traditionally seasoned with pesto Genovese

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testaroli of Lunigiana

BASIC RECIPE

testaroliThe testaroli are a quite disappeared recipe, with very ancient origin: it seems they are the oldest “pasta asciutta” (dry pasta)1

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