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Taccozze, Tacconi, Pizzelle, Manilli de Sea

Pasta Sheets

Appears in
Carluccio's Complete Italian Food

By Antonio Carluccio and Priscilla Carluccio

Published 1997

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These are all types of flat pasta made by hand from a dough of flour and water which is widely used in many parts of Italy. From Marche, Campania and Umbria comes taccozze or tacconi, which are 4 cm (1½ inch) squares of very thin sfoglia. The dressing varies from a meat ragù or tomato sauce to the juices from the roasting pan. Very similar but larger 6 x 7 cm (2½ x 2¾ inch) rectangles called pizzelle are found in Puglia. The dough for these is made with salted water and durum semolina.

The largest variety, measuring 12 cm (4¾ inch) square, comes from Liguria and is called manilli de sea (sea meaning ‘silk’). Indeed it is so thin and large that it looks like silk cloth. It is eaten dressed with pesto, mushroom or meat sauces. Another, irregularly shaped version of taccozze is maltagliati, which is made with an egg pasta dough.

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