Garofalo Orecchiette Pasta, 500 g

Garofalo pasta is truly Italian. Love the coarse texture and the consistency is good and stays al dente (unless you let it cook for too long!). Orecchiette are my fave - just shame about the price, which ins a bit steep for a pack of pasta!

Bought these for a friend who is Italian, and a chef, and he said it was some of the best pasta. I would say the gift was a success.

In UK there are so many brands of pasta that I never heard in my life...they may be even "made in italy" but probably from batch we would note at there as often the pasta isn't exactly good and can overcook easily, yes not all pasta is the same, quite far from it actually! Garofalo is a good brand, these Orecchiette taste very good and cook nicely, also it is a shape of pasta not easy to find in supermarket (traditionally this past is from Apulia / Puglia in south Italy), hey watch Gino's Italian Escape and you'll see :) Nowadays you can find pasta from Gragnano in some supermarket here in UK too, which is great, as heads up that's considered the best paste in Italy, it has a DOP certificate too.

Good pasta, good flavour, cook a little unevenly until the last minute or two so keep your eye on them when cooking

Nice product. Easy to cook.

I make my ragu sauce with stewing beef and pork mince slow cooked in tomato sauce, these little pigs ears just fill up with the sauce, yum.

Tasty

I first had orecchiette pasta at an Italian restaurant and had been desperately trying to find it in the supermarkets so I could try to recreate the recipe, to no avail. This was a great find on Amazon, yes it is much more expensive than a cheap bag of pasta from the supermarket but it's fantastic quality and perfect if you fancy a change or are following a specific recipe. I'll definitely be purchasing again.

buono