What to use instead of cjarsons
Brown butter and grated smoked ricotta. The sweet filling needs the smoke and the salt.
The closest swap: mezzelune
A half-moon parcel.
Cjarsons is stuffed, 40 to 60 mm long, 4 to 6 minutes in the pot. Mezzelune sits in the stuffed family and cooks in 3 to 5 minutes. Match the cook time first. A swap that is right in shape and wrong in time still ends up wrong on the plate.
Every swap for cjarsons, ranked
A substitute must behave the same way with the sauce you are making. The ones marked as chosen are hand-picked. The rest score on family, cavity, surface, size, and shared sauces.
- 1
Mezzelune
Stuffed · Trentino-Alto Adige
A half-moon parcel (chosen)
- 2
Gnocchi
Hand-formed · All of Italy
The same potato dough without the fold (chosen)
- 3
Casoncelli
Stuffed · Lombardy
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce, close in size
- 4
Culurgiones
Stuffed · Sardinia
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce, close in size
- 5
Marubini
Stuffed · Lombardy
Same family, also solid, also smooth, close in size
- 6
Agnolotti
Stuffed · Piedmont
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce
- 7
Cappellacci
Stuffed · Emilia-Romagna
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce
- 8
Cappelletti
Stuffed · Emilia-Romagna
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce
Match the sauce, not the look
Cjarsons is listed against 1 sauce. Pick the swap that holds the one you are cooking.
- Best pasta for butter and sage: Brown butter with crisped sage leaves. The filled-pasta sauce. It stays out of the way of the filling.
Side by side
The measured difference between cjarsons and each swap.