Pillus

Pillus
Type Pasta
Place of origin Italy
Region or state Sardinia
Main ingredients Flour and eggs[1]

Pillus is a type of pasta found in Sardinia, particularly around Oristano.[2] A noodle-like pasta, it is made in thin ribbon strips. It is cooked in beef (or sometimes sheep) broth and served with pecorino cheese.[3][4] In Busachi the pasta is flavoured with toasted saffron and ground to a powder.[2]

Lisanzedas is a variant of pillus (and sometimes named as such) that is oven-baked in layers like lasagne. The shape of the pasta is large (7 to 8 inches) diameter disks rather than ribbons. It is the meat stew filling and the pecorino cheese that are the common factors rather than the shape of the pasta. A variant of lisanzedas found around Cagliari is flavoured with saffron.[1] Another variant of this sort from Giba is flavoured with fennel.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Oretta Zanini De Vita, Encyclopedia of Pasta, University of California Press, pp. 211-21, 2009 ISBN 0520944712.
  2. 1 2 Alessandro Molinari Pradelli, La cucina sarda, Newton Compton Editori, 2012 ISBN 8854146161.
  3. ↑ Tino Rozzo, Cucina Del Paradiso: The Sardinia Kitchen, p. 30, Xlibris Corporation, 2009 ISBN 1441576746.
  4. 1 2 Cristina Ortolani, L'Italia della pasta, p. 134, Touring Editore, 2003 ISBN 883652933X.
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