Ciciones Pasta with Pork Sausage Sauce

Cicio means ‘fat’, and these fat little pasta shapes are halfway between gnocchi and malloreddus. Saffron is used in a lot of Sardinian dishes, but more commonly in the south than the north, where I come from. Here I make an exception and use it to give the pasta dough a lovely golden colour. Campidanese means ‘from the Campidano area’, the plains of southern Sardinia where a lot of vegetables are grown, especially tomatoes; this sauce is typical of that region.