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In breve

The dish in short

  • A pasta of 400 g of buckwheat flour and 100 g of white flour with water, no eggs, rolled 2 mm–3 mm thick and cut 5 mm wide.
  • Short noodles, about 7 cm–8 cm long: not tagliatelle.
  • Boiled in one pot with potatoes and savoy cabbage, which go in 5 minutes before the pasta.
  • Layered in a hot dish with grated grana and flakes of Valtellina Casera PDO, then doused with butter browned with garlic.
  • Lifted out with a skimmer, never drained in a colander, and never stirred once layered: served boiling hot with pepper.

Il video, Teglio, Lombardia

Pizzoccheri della Valtellina

The video: Buckwheat pasta from Valtellina with potatoes, savoy cabbage and cheese

Short buckwheat noodles boiled with potatoes and savoy cabbage, then layered with Valtellina Casera and grana and doused with garlic butter: the dish of Teglio, whose pasta has been an EU PGI since 2016. The video is an illustration; the recipe has the exact quantities, temperatures and times.

Serves
4
Hands-on
1 h 1 min
Cooking
15 min
Video
11 s

Passo dopo passo

The steps, in photos

The video shows the main moments; these are all 10 steps, as in the recipe.

Photos of steps 1, 2, 3
1Make the dough2Roll the sheet3Cut the pizzoccheri
Photos of steps 4, 5, 6
4Put the water on and heat the dish5Prepare the vegetables and the cheeses6Cook the vegetables
Photos of steps 7, 8, 9
7Add the pizzoccheri8Layer with the cheeses9Brown the butter with the garlic
Photos of steps 10
10Pour and serve

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