Tacconi

Pasta corta

Appears in
Encyclopedia of Pasta

By Oretta Zanini de Vita

Published 2009

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Ingredients Corn flour, type 00 wheat flour, and water. In Molise, durum-wheat flour. In Campania, also whole-wheat flour. Leftover polenta was often used.

How Made A polenta is made with corn flour, chilled, and kneaded with wheat flour and water to make a homogeneous and rather firm dough. The dough is left to rest, then rolled out with a rolling pin into a sheet, not too thin, from which strips about ¾ inch (2 cm) wide are cut. These are cut again into squares or rhombuses, tacconi in Italian.