This ancient variety of Tuscan chickpea is suitable for being cooked as a side dish, seasoned with olive oil, salt, pepper, and can also be used in soups for its thin and very digestible skin.
Preparation:
The chickpeas must be soaked for at least 12 hours. Rinse and then boil in cold water. Bring to the boil and cook for about two hours (40 minutes with a pressure cooker). The dose is 80 grams per person.
100% Italian semolina pasta, bronze-drawn. Cooking time: 6 min.
Taglierini pasta is delicious with delicate sauces based on fish or vegetables, as well as in soups. In the Romagna region, taglierini are traditionally baked in the dish known as basotti (or bassotti) seasoned with butter and Parmesan cheese.
Giovanni Fabbri suggests enjoying this taglierini with butter and truffle-based sauce.
Organic spelled flour pasta, 100% Dicocco Spelt (Origin: Lazio), bronze-drawn. Cooking time: 10 min.
Stracci pasta is great with any type of sauce, from fish to meat sauces (or game) or simply with extra-virgin olive oil and a sprinkle of cheese. As for vegetables, they are excellent with pesto or chickpea and rosemary sauce.
100% Italian semolina pasta, bronze-drawn. Cooking time: 18 min.
Spaghettoni is the largest form of spaghetti. “A dash of extra-virgin olive oil, a little pepper, and a pinch of cheese is the best way to enjoy Spaghettoni Toscani", says Giovanni Fabbri, the fourth generation and owner of the company. Of course, spaghetti can be enjoyed with many different sauces, for example, “Cacio e Pepe”, a well-made ragout, or even with garlic sauce (click here for the RECIPE).
It was the year 1928, and the young Chiaverini brothers decided to found a small company for the production of jams just outside the city walls of Florence, nowadays one of the most well-known Italian artisan producers.