Orecchiette, Antichi Sapori (500gr)

When you mention orecchiette pasta in Italy, regardless of where you are, everyone will instantly think of "orecchiette alle cime di rapa," for the recipe, click here, the traditional Apulian dish crafted with orecchiette, cime di rapa (known as broccoli rabe in English), and sausages.

Our artisanal orecchiette pasta, they take their name from the Italian for "little ears" due to their distinctive round, ear like shape, are exclusively made using high quality Apulian flour and water.

If you find difficult to get broccoli rabe, you can substitute it with our pesto cime di rapa, already cooked and ready to be added.

When Nicola Pedote started working as a pastry chef 50 years ago, he didn't imagine that his family's history would have the smell of vanilla and the taste of flour.

In 2001, the Pedote and Fanizzi families decided to continue the legacy of their father Nicola, mixing three fundamental ingredients: the typical features of the territory, the artisan techniques of the past and the innovation of modern technologies. Nowadays, they choose only quality ingredients, ensuring respect for traditional recipes.

The research for new flavours and new combinations of ingredients, searching among the recipes of the Italian and Apulian gastronomic tradition, in particular their taralli are prepared following their grandmothers' recipes, paying particular attention to the choice of ingredients and their provenance and are prepared with 99% Apulian ingredients, this is the way Gran Forno celebrate Puglia and its flavours.