The difference
Strascinati vs Orecchiette
Both are dragged southern shapes from the same gesture, but orecchiette is turned over the thumb into a domed little ear, while strascinati stays flat and open, dragged longer and larger across the board. In Bari the two names blur; elsewhere the dome marks orecchiette, the flat drag marks strascinati.
Strascinati
- Family
- Hand-formed regional
- Size
- not yet measured
- Surface
- Textured
- Cook
- n/a
Wants: Tomato sauce, Broccoli rabe, Ragu
Orecchiette
- Family
- Shaped shorts
- Size
- 9 to 25 mm across
- Surface
- Textured
- Cook
- 9 to 13 min
Wants: Broccoli rabe, Sausage ragu, Tomato with cacioricotta
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