Sedani
SEH-dah-nee
Slightly curved narrow ridged tube.
8 mm across, 1 mm wall
Name. From sedano, celery. The ridged curved tube looks like a stalk. Older name: zanne d'elefante, elephant tusks.
What it is
Sedani is a narrow ridged tube with a gentle curve, like a piece of celery stalk, cut straight at the ends. It is smaller than rigatoni and rounder than penne, with a curve that helps it hold sauce.
Sedanini is the smaller grade, used in soups and children's dishes.
How to cook sedani
10 to 12 minutes in boiling salted water. Take the shorter time for al dente, the longer time for fully cooked.
10:00
Start when the water returns to the boil.
Water and salt
- Pasta, dry
- 400 g
- Water
- 4 L
- Salt
- 40 g
100 g per person as a main. A litre and 10 g of salt per 100 g. Adjust with the portion calculator.
The steps
- Bring 4 L of water to a full boil in a tall pot. Add 40 g of salt when it boils.
- Add the sedani. Stir for the first minute so nothing sticks. Start the timer when the water returns to the boil.
- Bite a piece at 9 minutes. A hairline of white at the centre is al dente.
- Scoop out a cup of the cooking water. Drain, or lift the pasta straight into the pan.
- Toss with the sauce over the heat for a minute. Add cooking water a splash at a time until it clings.
Read more: what al dente means and why the pasta water matters. Times for every shape are on the cook page.
How it holds sauce
Ridged and curved, so it grips smooth and medium sauces: tomato, a light ragu, cream with vegetables. Too narrow for big pieces.
Pairs with: Pomodoro · Meat ragu · Cream sauce · Vegetable ragu · Baked (al forno)
Classic plates: Sedani al ragu, Sedani rigati al pomodoro.
By brand: numbers, cook times, spec sheets
3 brands, 4 product pages. Cook times run from 7 to 13 minutes across brands, so read the box, not a rule. A blank cell is a figure the brand does not state.
| Brand | Product | No. | Cook | Length | Width or Ø | Wall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rummo | Sedani | 68 | 12 min | 45 mm | 8.5 mm | 1.35 to 1.65 mm |
| Mancini | Sedani 20 Righe | 7 min, al dente 5 | 40 mm | 7 mm | ||
| La Molisana | Sedani Pasta | 44 | 13 min | |||
| La Molisana | Sedanini Pasta | 49 | 12 min |
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.
Who makes sedani
36 sedani products are catalogued, most of them sold in Italy, France, Germany. Of those, 1 are organic, 1 are bronze die, 2 are made in Italy.
Brands: Barilla (3), Combino (3), Ecor (3), Naturasi (3), Conad (2), De Cecco (2), Delverde (2), Lidl (2), Baldoni (1), Crai (1).
No sedani? Use these
Ranked by how they behave with sauce, not how they look. Full substitute list.
Side by side
Easy to confuse with
Other names
Sedanini, cornetti, diavoletti, diavolini, folletti, or zanne d'elefante if smooth, sedani rigati, sedanini, zanne d'elefante.
Sources
- Sedani, Rummo (cook time, catalogue number, spec sheet dimensions, from the brand's own product page)
- Sedani 20 Righe, Mancini (cook time, spec sheet dimensions, from the brand's own product page)
- Sedani Pasta, La Molisana (cook time, catalogue number, from the brand's own product page)
- Sedanini Pasta, La Molisana (cook time, catalogue number, from the brand's own product page)
- Cook time: typical dried, brand pages.
- Photograph: Sedani zoom.png, Popo le Chien, CC0.
- Open Food Facts (products, brands, labels), Open Database License, read on 2026-08-25.
- 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.
- Sedani, Wikipedia (names, origin), CC BY-SA 4.0
- Q48852221, Wikidata
- Dimensions: brand spec sheets and measured boxes. Blank fields are unmeasured, never guessed.