Natalin

Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water.

How Made Factory-made large, smooth tube, flattened, with the ends cut on the bias like penne. The tubes are cooked in broth.

Also Known As In Genoa, maccheroni.

How Served In broth, typically of tripe.

Where Found Liguria.

Remarks This pasta in broth is typical for Christmas dinner and even for Christmas Eve, when many families make the broth from tripe. Pieces of sausage were often added to natalin in to broddo to symbolize wealth and prosperity. In eastern Liguria, along the Riviera del Levante, these maccheroni are dipped quickly in a batter of beaten egg, grated cheese, and marjoram, then dropped in broth. The batter fills the tube and sets in the hot broth, like a true filling.