Fusi

Fusi are a hand-rolled egg pasta from Istria. The dough is flour, eggs, and salt. Some cooks add white wine, grappa, or oil. The sheet is rolled thin and cut into strips 3 to 4 cm wide. The strips are cut on the diagonal into diamonds. Two opposite corners are folded over a thin wooden stick and pressed together. The piece looks like a spindle or a small bow. Unlike garganelli, fusi have no comb ridges.

The shape belongs to the Istrian peninsula, across Croatia, Slovenia, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The classic dressing is a sauce of hen or rooster with onion, tomato paste, white wine, and broth. Goulash sauce, game ragù, wild asparagus, and truffle are also traditional.