
Puglia
Pasta shapes from Puglia
Apulia, also known by its Italian name Puglia, is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Strait of Otranto and Ionian Sea to the southeast and the Gulf of Taranto to the south.
- Shapes
- 9
- With a full profile
- 6
- Families
- long strands, ribbons, short shapes, hand-formed
- Made by hand
- 7
- Sauces
- 1
- Classic plates
- 17
The cooking of the region
Apulian cuisine is characterized above all by the importance given to raw materials, both land and sea, and by the fact that all the ingredients are designed to enhance and not alter the basic flavours of the products used.
Sauces from Puglia
9 shapes from Puglia

Capunti
Hand-formed · Puglia
long cavatelli dragged with three fingers, like an open pea pod

Cavatelli
Hand-formed · Puglia
small dumpling with a hollow, rolled under two fingers

Foglie d'ulivo
Short shapes · Puglia
flat leaf with a pinched vein, often tinted green with spinach

Orecchiette
Hand-formed · Puglia
small domed disc, rough on the outside, dragged over the board with a knife

Sagne 'ncannulate
Hand-formed · Puglia
wide strip twisted along its length into a loose corkscrew

Troccoli
Long strands · Puglia
thick square strand cut with a grooved rolling pin

Fainelle
Hand-formed · Puglia
Flat strascinato that vaguely resembles carob

Lanterne
Short shapes · Puglia
Curved ridges

Rustiche
Ribbons · Puglia
Serrated ribbons
Classic plates of Puglia
Every dish the shape profiles of this region name, with the shape and, where we have it, the sauce.
- Capunti con ceciCapunti
- Capunti con le cime di rapaCapunti · Cime di rapa
- Cavatelli al raguCavatelli · Meat ragu
- Cavatelli alla crudaiolaCavatelli
- Cavatelli con fagioliCavatelli
- Cavatelli e broccoliCavatelli
- Foglie d'ulivo al pestoFoglie d'ulivo
- Foglie d'ulivo con pomodorini e basilicoFoglie d'ulivo
- Orecchiette al pomodoro e cacioricottaOrecchiette · Pomodoro
- Orecchiette al ragu di bracioleOrecchiette · Meat ragu
- Orecchiette con le cime di rapaOrecchiette · Cime di rapa
- Orecchiette con salsiccia e broccoliOrecchiette
- Sagne 'ncannulate al raguSagne 'ncannulate · Meat ragu
- Sagne 'ncannulate al sugo con ricotta forteSagne 'ncannulate · Ricotta
- Troccoli al pomodoro con cacioricottaTroccoli · Pomodoro
- Troccoli al raguTroccoli · Meat ragu
- Troccoli con le cozzeTroccoli
Sources
- A shape belongs to a region by the origin in its record: the Wikipedia list of pasta, the Wikidata item, and the regional cookbooks named on the shape page.
- Apulia, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q1447.
- Apulian cuisine, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.