Tubetti

Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water.

How Made Factory-made tubes, usually small, both smooth and ridged. They are cooked in soups or with legumes.

Also Known As Tubettini, ditali, ditaletti (thimbles), gnocchetti di ziti, gnocchettini, and coralli (corals). In Puglia and Sicily, denti di vecchia (old woman’s teeth), denti di cavallo (horse’s teeth), ganghi di vecchia (old woman’s legs), and magghietti.

How Served The small shapes in broth or in legume soups.

Where Found Widespread.

Remarks The name means literally “little tubes.” In Puglia, where the pasta d’ingegno was widespread by the beginning of the 1800s, these irregularly shaped, small, curved tubes could be produced with the torchio or with the appropriate die.