Gentile Pasta di Gragnano IGP
Pastificio Gentile's main range of Pasta di Gragnano PGI from Italian durum wheat: spaghetti, fusilli, candele, mafalde and more.
Gentile Pasta di Gragnano IGP is the main range of Pastificio Gentile in Gragnano. It is dry durum wheat pasta with Pasta di Gragnano PGI status; the maker stresses that the grain is 100% Italian. Under the PGI rules, this pasta is made only from durum wheat semolina and water and produced within Gragnano.
The official site lists 16 shapes. The long ones include spaghetti sold by cooking time – "4 minutes", "8 minutes" and "12 minutes" – as well as thick spaghettone, spaghetti alla chitarra, linguine, bucatini, long candele, long ziti, mafalde, tagliatelle and pappardelle. There are signature shapes too: hand-made fusilli wound on a metal rod, the shape the pasta maker Natale Zampino started with, and long hollow fusilli. For baking there are manicotti and lasagne.
These shapes cover most classic dishes: spaghetti with tomato sauce or carbonara, linguine with seafood, tagliatelle and pappardelle with ragù, and manicotti and lasagne for oven bakes.
The Gentile brand dates from 1876 and has been owned by the Zampino family since the 1980s.
Facts
| Raw material | Italian durum wheat semolina, water |
|---|---|
| Main use | Pasta di Gragnano PGI: long, short and baking shapes |
What it includes
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- Gentile Bucatini
- Gentile Calamaretti
- Gentile Candele Corte
- Gentile Candele lunghe
- Gentile Casarecce
- Gentile Conchiglioni
- Gentile Eliche
- Gentile Elicoidali
- Gentile Fusilli lavorati a mano
- Gentile Fusilli Lunghi Bucati
- Gentile Gnocchetti
- Gentile Gnocchi Napoletani
- Gentile Lasagna
- Gentile Linguine
- Gentile Lumachine
- Gentile Lumaconi
- Gentile Mafalde
- Gentile Manicotti
- Gentile Mezze Maniche Rigate
- Gentile Mezze Penne
- Gentile Mezzi Paccheri
- Gentile Mezzi Paccheri Rigati
- Gentile Mista Corta
- Gentile Orecchiette Napoletane
- Gentile Paccheri
- Gentile Paccheri Rigati
- Gentile Papiri
- Gentile Pappardelle
- Gentile Penne
- Gentile Penne Rigate
- Gentile Pennette
- Gentile Pennette Rigate
- Gentile Pennoni Rigati
- Gentile Rigatoni
- Gentile Scialatielli
- Gentile Semini
- Gentile Spaghetti 12 minuti
- Gentile Spaghetti 4 minuti
- Gentile Spaghetti 8 minuti
- Gentile Spaghetti alla Chitarra
- Gentile Spaghettone
- Gentile Stelline
- Gentile Tagliatelle
- Gentile Tortiglioni
- Gentile Trecce
- Gentile Tubetti Lisci
- Gentile Tubetti Rigati
- Gentile Tubettoni
- Gentile Vesuvio
- Gentile Ziti Corti Lisci
- Gentile Ziti Corti Rigati
- Gentile Ziti lunghi
How it connects to Pasta
Gentile Pasta di Gragnano IGP → kind of → Dry durum wheat pasta → kind of → 🍝 Pasta
Links
- What it contains
- Semolina, 🌾 Durum wheat
- Part of
- Pastificio Gentile, Pasta di Gragnano, Dry durum wheat pasta
- Similar and different
- Spaghetti, Spaghetti alla chitarra, Linguine, Bucatini, Fusilli, Tagliatelle, Pappardelle, Ziti, Manicotti, Lasagne sheets
Frequently asked questions
What do Gentile's "4, 8 and 12 minute spaghetti" names mean?
They are spaghetti of different thicknesses, named after the cooking time given by the maker.
Are hand-made fusilli part of the range?
Yes, fusilli wound by hand on a metal rod are part of the Pasta di Gragnano IGP range.
What to read next
- Semolina — Coarse, yellowish meal ground from durum wheat: the main raw material of dry pasta.
- Lasagne sheets — Wide flat rectangular sheets of pasta layered with sauce and baked in lasagne; for example, Barilla makes them from durum wheat semolina and fresh eggs.
- 🌾 Durum wheat — A wheat species with very hard grain and strong gluten, milled into semolina for dry pasta and couscous.
- Ziti — Long dry pasta in the form of a hollow tube, made from durum wheat semolina and water; Garofalo's Ziti n. 4-15 are 250 mm long and bronze-drawn.
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