Grattoni
Large granular, irregular shaped pasta.
Name. From grattugiare, to grate. The dough is grated or chopped into crumbs.
What it is
Grattoni are small, irregular crumbs of pasta. Grattini are the same thing in a smaller size. A stiff dough of semolina, egg, and salt is grated on a coarse grater or chopped with a knife. Northern recipes add grated Parmesan to the dough. The crumbs dry for an hour before cooking. Home cooks once made them from dough left over after tagliatelle.
The Pasta Project links the shape to northern Italy, above all the Veneto. Grattoni are cooked in broth. They rise to the surface when done. They also go into minestra and minestrone. A bowl finished with grated cheese is a common winter first course.
What it is served with
Pairs with: In brodo · Minestrone
Classic plates: Grattini in brodo.
Nutrition
Per 100 g of dry egg 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 | 384 kcal | 14.2 g | 71.3 g | 3.3 g | 4.4 g | 21 mg | 4.0 mg |
| Cooked | 138 kcal | 4.5 g | 25.2 g | 1.2 g | 2.1 g | 5 mg | 1.5 mg |
One portion. 100 g dry becomes about 278 g cooked, 384 kcal and 14 g of protein. Pasta takes on 2.8 times its weight in the pot.
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Ranked by how they behave with sauce, not how they look.
Other names
grattini, pasta grattata.
Sources
- The Pasta Project, Grattoni-grattini pasta for soup (profile: origin, form, use)
- Cookist, Grattini all'uovo (profile: origin, form, use)
- Wikipedia, List of pasta (profile: origin, form, use)
- Photograph: Grattoni.jpg, Elcochan at en.wikipedia, CC0.
- USDA FoodData Central (nutrition per 100 g, by dough: FDC 169731, Noodles, egg, dry, enriched; FDC 169732, Noodles, egg, enriched, cooked), public domain. The cooked yield is derived from the two energy figures.
- Grattoni, Wikipedia (names, origin), CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dimensions: brand spec sheets and measured boxes. Blank fields are unmeasured, never guessed.