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Pansoti al Preboggion con Salsa di Noci Genovese

Genoa, Liguria

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Origin

Genoa, Liguria (specifically Recco and eastern Ligurian Riviera)

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Description

Pansoti ('pot-bellied') are the triangular stuffed pasta of Liguria, filled with preboggion — a traditional mixture of 14+ wild herbs and greens (borage, prescinseua curd, Swiss chard, pimpinella, wild fennel fronds) bound with egg and Parmigiano. Dressed with salsa di noci — a sauce of shelled walnuts, garlic, marjoram, prescinseua or ricotta, and olive oil pounded together — they are the Ligurian counterweight to pesto, showing that the same region has another great sauce that uses the same mortar-pounding technique.

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The Thread

—Stuffed pasta triangles with a complex filling — the Northern Italian tradition of stuffed pasta as an art form Piedmont
—Pasta parcels filled with fresh herb and cheese mixture — the Caucasian parallel Georgian
—Stuffed pasta dressed with a nut-based sauce — the Ottoman tradition of the stuffed pasta-nut sauce combination Turkish
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Flavour Context

Wild herb-filled belly pasta in a room-temperature walnut sauce — Liguria's other great pasta tradition, as distinctive as pesto but known only to those who go beyond the coast

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