What to use instead of pansotti
Walnut sauce. The green, slightly bitter filling and the sweet creamy walnut paste are a pair. Butter and marjoram is the alternative.
The closest swap: ravioli
A ricotta and greens ravioli.
Pansotti is stuffed, 40 to 60 mm long, 4 to 6 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 pansotti, 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 ricotta and greens ravioli (chosen)
- 2
Tortelli
Stuffed · Emilia-Romagna
Tortelli d'erbetta (chosen)
- 3
Cappellacci
Stuffed · Emilia-Romagna
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce, close in size
- 4
Tortelloni
Stuffed · Emilia-Romagna
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce, close in size
- 5
Agnolotti
Stuffed · Piedmont
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce
- 6
Cappelletti
Stuffed · Emilia-Romagna
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce
- 7
Caramelle
Stuffed · Emilia-Romagna
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce
- 8
Casoncelli
Stuffed · Lombardy
Same family, also solid, also smooth, shares 1 sauce
Match the sauce, not the look
Pansotti is listed against 2 sauces. Pick the swap that holds the one you are cooking.
- Best pasta for walnut sauce: Salsa di noci: walnuts, bread, garlic, milk, marjoram. Ligurian. Pansotti is its pairing.
- 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 pansotti and each swap.