Trofie Pasta Carloforte-style

Trofie alla Carlofortina

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    as a first course
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Sardinian Cookbook

By Giovanni Pilu and Roberta Muir

Published 2012

  • About

Trofie is a pasta from Liguria. I’ve used it in this dish because of the strong Genovese influence in Carloforte, a town on San Pietro island, just off the southwestern coast of mainland Sardinia. Carloforte was founded in the 18th century by coral fishermen from Pegli, near Genoa in Liguria, and their descendants still speak a Ligurian dialect. The golden grape tomatoes give this dish a lovely colour; you could also use red tomatoes of course, but if using larger tomatoes, peel and deseed