![]() You will have a beautiful bowl of pasta either way. If the idea of making incredibly small meatballs is going to keep you from preparing this, you can still have a wonderful meal with just the pasta and ragù. ![]() ![]() The ragù is ready after hours of cooking. I suggest that you make the sauce and meatballs a day ahead and then make the pasta the day you want to entertain. Then you just need to make the pasta when you are in the mood for some deliciousness. If you prepare the recipe and end up loving it as much as I do, you can always prepare a double batch of the sauce and meatballs and freeze half. You can keep the sauce in the freezer for up to 3 months and the meatballs for 1 month. For instance, you can prepare the ragù a day or two ahead and keep it in the fridge. Thankfully, you can do a lot of the steps ahead of time. There are three main components to the recipe – the sauce ( ragù), the meatballs, and the pasta. I will give you tips to streamline the process. If you are a beginner, make the prep a culinary project with your friends and family. An intermediate or advanced cook will be more than up to the task. It’s not particularly difficult but it is time-consuming. Tips for SuccessĪs I mentioned in the intro, this is a great preparation to savor on a Sunday or a festive occasion. More culinary research in Teramo, Abruzzo. If you love dishes with little meatballs, be sure to click here for my recipe for Baked Pasta with Little Meatballs. They are so small in fact, that they are no larger than a cooked chickpea! In Teramana cuisine, these little meatballs are featured in other dishes as well such as Timballo and Stracciatella con le Pallottine. Note that in Italian, the word polpetta/e is the word for a ball such as a meatball, tuna ball, zucchini ball, etc., In Teramo however, they use a variant of the word “ palla” which means ball. When you see the dish on a menu outside of Teramo, it’s referred to as “alla Teramana” (meaning Teramo style). Maccheroni alla Chitarra con Sugo e Polpettine.Pasta alla Chitarra con Pallottine alla Teramana.Maccheroni alla Chitarra con le Pallottine.Spaghetti alla Chitarra con le Pallottine.Following are the various names I’ve come across in my reading and travels: Also, if you enjoy watching cooking videos as I do on YouTube, this list will be helpful if you wish to look up Italian videos. Italy is a land full of dialects and confusing/conflicting names so I want to ensure that you don’t miss out if you are lucky enough to be visiting. Travel & language tips …īefore I get to the details about the recipe, I want to share the various names one might come across while traveling in Abruzzo. If you can’t travel to all of the places you’d like to see, travel through your kitchen! It’s a fun and simple way to see and taste the world! Now, when we are outside of Abruzzo, I can have this delectable yumminess whenever I want. After obsessive research about the preparation, reading traditional recipes, chatting with locals, video watching, and recipe testing, I now have a recipe that will take you straight to Teramo. A beautiful serving of Chitarrine con le Pallottine in Teramo.Įventually, it became such a family favorite that I needed to learn how to make it myself.
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