Stringozzi or Strangozzi is an Italian wheat
pasta
Pasta (, ; ) is a type of food typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or other shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. Rice flour, or legumes such as beans or lentils, are som ...
, among the more notable of those produced in the
Umbria
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region.
The long, rectangular cross-section noodles are made by hand and generally served with the local
black truffles
''Tuber melanosporum'', called the black truffle, Périgord truffle or French black truffle, is a species of truffle native to Southern Europe. It is one of the most expensive edible mushrooms in the world.
Taxonomy
Italian naturalist Carlo Vi ...
, a meat
ragù or a tomato-based sauce.
[ The name of the pasta is drawn from its resemblance to shoelaces, as ''stringhe'' is Italian for "strings".]
References
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Types of pasta
Cuisine of Umbria