Lanterne
Curved ridges.
Name. Lanterns. The curved, ridged piece recalls an old oil lantern.
What it is
Lanterne are a curved short pasta with deep ridges on both faces. The piece curls in on itself like the glass of an oil lantern. The dough is durum wheat semolina and water. Retailers describe the Marella version as bronze-drawn and organic. The shape is not traditional. The Marella factory in Puglia created it as a decorative form.
The shape comes from Puglia by way of its inventor. The deep ridges catch chunky tomato sauce. Retailers also suggest cream sauces, pesto, and meat sauces. A simple dressing of good olive oil, basil, and Parmigiano-Reggiano shows off the shape.
What it is served with
Pairs with: Pomodoro · Pesto alla genovese · Cream sauce · Meat ragu
By brand: numbers, cook times, spec sheets
1 brand, 1 product page.
| Brand | Product | Cook |
|---|---|---|
| Marella | Lanterne |
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
lanterne pugliesi.
Sources
- Lanterne, Marella (product page, from the brand's own product page)
- Wikipedia, Lanterne (pasta) (profile: origin, form, use)
- Olive Oil & Beyond, Lanterne pasta (profile: origin, form, use)
- Italian Harvest, Lanterne by Marella (profile: origin, form, use)
- Photograph: Lanterne.jpg, Fazal Majid, Public domain.
- 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.
- Lanterne (pasta), Wikipedia (names, origin), CC BY-SA 4.0
- Q6487583, Wikidata
- Dimensions: brand spec sheets and measured boxes. Blank fields are unmeasured, never guessed.