Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water.
How Made Factory-made semicircular pastina. They are cooked in broth.
Also Known As Capricciose.
How Served Generally in broth.
The name means literally “little devils.” In the nineteenth century, diavolini was the name for hair curlers, and their curved shape may have inspired the name of this pasta.
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