What to use instead of culurgiones
A rich potato and cheese filling under a thick semolina skin. A light tomato with pecorino cuts it; butter and sage is the plainer option.
The closest swap: ravioli
A potato ravioli.
Culurgiones is stuffed, 50 to 70 mm long, 5 to 8 minutes in the pot. Ravioli sits in the stuffed family and cooks in 3 to 6 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 culurgiones, 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
Ravioli
Stuffed · All of Italy
A potato ravioli (chosen)
- 2
Mezzelune
Stuffed · Trentino-Alto Adige
A half-moon parcel (chosen)
- 3
Casoncelli
Stuffed · Lombardy
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce, close in size
- 4
Cjarsons
Stuffed · Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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
Tortelli
Stuffed · Emilia-Romagna
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 2 sauces
- 7
Tortelloni
Stuffed · Emilia-Romagna
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 2 sauces
- 8
Agnolotti
Stuffed · Piedmont
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce
Match the sauce, not the look
Culurgiones is listed against 2 sauces. Pick the swap that holds the one you are cooking.
- Best pasta for pomodoro: Tomato, olive oil, garlic or onion, basil. Smooth and light. Almost any shape works; the classic is spaghetti or penne.
- 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 culurgiones and each swap.