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Origin
Abruzzo — Regione intera
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Description
Abruzzo's peasant pasta-and-bean dish — roughly torn irregular pasta sheets (sagne) cooked directly in a braised bean broth with rosemary, garlic, and pork ribs. Unlike pasta e fagioli from other regions, sagne are not short pasta shapes but rough, wide, irregular pieces torn by hand from a sheet — their uneven edges and irregular thickness produce a varied texture in every bowl. The pork ribs are braised first to build the broth foundation before beans and pasta are added.
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The Thread
—Southern Italian pasta-and-legume one-pot — Puglia adds mussels where Abruzzo uses pork; both cook pasta directly in the legume liquid for starch thickening Pugliese
—Legume and pasta cooked together in an enriched broth — both traditions use pork to build the stock Portuguese
—Starchy element cooked directly in bean broth until the dish thickens — bread in Tuscany, pasta in Abruzzo; same logic Tuscan
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Flavour Context
Pork-enriched bean broth, hearty irregular pasta, rosemary, garlic — thick, warming, the essence of Abruzzese mountain farmhouse cooking
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