Ricettario d'Italia

In breve

The dish in short

  • Sagne: a firm dough of semolina, water and salt, rolled about 2 mm thick and cut into strips 6 mm wide and about 4 cm long.
  • Small round white beans, soaked overnight, boiled hard for half an hour with an onion and a stick of celery, then simmered, salted and roughly crushed.
  • The dressing: olive oil heated with quartered garlic and chilli, poured over the moment the garlic starts to colour.
  • Sagne, a little of their water and the beans are mixed in the tureen with chopped parsley: creamy, never liquid.

Il video, Isernia, Molise

Sagne e fagioli

The video: Short hand-cut semolina pasta with roughly crushed white beans, garlic, chilli and olive oil

Molise's sagne, short strips of semolina-and-water pasta, mixed in the tureen with small white beans cooked with onion and celery and roughly crushed, then dressed with hot olive oil, garlic, chilli and parsley. The video is an illustration; the recipe has the exact quantities, temperatures and times.

Serves
4
Hands-on
52 min
Cooking
1 h 13 min
Video
11 s

Passo dopo passo

The steps, in photos

The video shows the main moments; these are all 17 steps, as in the recipe.

Photos of steps 1, 2, 3
1Soak the beans2Drain and rinse3Bring them to the boil with the onion and celery
Photos of steps 4, 5, 6
4Keep them at a full boil for 30 minutes5Simmer over moderate heat until soft, and salt them6Crush them roughly and keep them hot
Photos of steps 7, 8, 9
7Make a well of the semolina8Work in the water and knead it for a long time9Roll it out about 2 mm thick
Photos of steps 10, 11, 12
10Leave the sheets to dry for a few minutes11Put the pasta water on12Cut the sagne
Photos of steps 13, 14, 15
13Warm the tureen14Cook the sagne15Meanwhile heat the oil with the garlic and chilli
Photos of steps 16, 17
16Bring it all together in the tureen17Serve at once

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