Fiorentine
Grooved cut tubes.
Name. Florentine, in the manner of Florence.
What it is
Fiorentine, also sold as fiorentini, are grooved, cut short pasta. Wikipedia lists them as grooved cut tubes. Pastificio Setaro of Torre Annunziata keeps the shape in its special short pasta range. Retail descriptions call it a loosely curved, twisted piece with grooves. They compare it to paccheri and strozzapreti. The shape needs a special die. Few makers produce it.
No source ties the shape to a region of origin. The name points to Florence. The one maker found for it is in Campania. Retailers pair the shape with pesto, tomato sauce, vegetables, cream sauces, and meat or sausage ragù.
What it is served with
Pairs with: Meat ragu · Sausage ragu · Pesto alla genovese · Pomodoro · Cream sauce
By brand: numbers, cook times, spec sheets
1 brand, 1 product page.
| Brand | Product | Cook |
|---|---|---|
| Pastificio Setaro | Fiorentini |
Nutrition
Per 100 g of dry semolina pasta. The shape does not change these numbers. The dough does, so a whole wheat or egg version of this shape reads differently. See every dough.
| Per 100 g | Energy | Protein | Carbohydrate | Fibre | Fat | Sodium | Iron |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dry | 371 kcal | 13.0 g | 74.7 g | 3.2 g | 1.5 g | 6 mg | 3.3 mg |
| Cooked | 158 kcal | 5.8 g | 30.9 g | 1.8 g | 0.9 g | 1 mg | 1.3 mg |
One portion. 100 g dry becomes about 235 g cooked, 371 kcal and 13 g of protein. Pasta takes on 2.3 times its weight in the pot.
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Ranked by how they behave with sauce, not how they look.
Other names
fiorentini.
Sources
- Fiorentini, Pastificio Setaro (product page, from the brand's own product page)
- Wikipedia, List of pasta (profile: origin, form, use)
- Pastificio Setaro, Pasta corta speciale (profile: origin, form, use)
- Buon'Italia, Setaro Fiorentini (profile: origin, form, use)
- Monsieur Marcel, Setaro Fiorentini (profile: origin, form, use)
- USDA FoodData Central (nutrition per 100 g, by dough: FDC 169736, Pasta, dry, enriched; FDC 169737, Pasta, cooked, enriched, without added salt), public domain. The cooked yield is derived from the two energy figures.
- Fiorentine, Wikipedia (names, origin), CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dimensions: brand spec sheets and measured boxes. Blank fields are unmeasured, never guessed.