🏭 Cantare

Cantare is a Ukrainian brand of dry durum wheat pasta. The official brand website names the company as Tradytsiia Smaku LLC, with an address in the village of Sviatopetrivske, Kyiv Oblast. The brand takes its name from the Italian verb cantare, “to sing”, and its motto is “Cucinare è come cantare!”, translated as “Cooking like singing!”.

The brand has a single range, Cantare Durum. According to the ingredients on the website, it contains only top-grade durum wheat flour for pasta and drinking water, with no eggs, which makes it close to classic Italian dry durum wheat pasta.

The range has nine shapes: long spaghetti No. 18, thinner spaghettini No. 14, flat linguine No. 30 and hollow bucatini No. 35, vermicelli, and the short shapes fusilli, penne rigate, rigatoni and cellentani, spiral tubes similar to cavatappi. Most shapes come in 400 g packs; bucatini come in 300 g packs, and spaghetti No. 18 also in 700 g packs.

The website also has recipes with this pasta: spaghetti carbonara, spaghetti bolognese and Kyiv-style pasta with chestnuts in a cream sauce. For all of them it advises cooking the pasta al dente in salted water, using 1 litre of water per 100 g of pasta.