Giovanni Rana Specialità Regionali

Giovanni Rana Specialità Regionali is a small range of fresh pasta in regional Italian shapes, made without eggs. It has two products. Trofiette are smaller, softer trofie: the company says it went back to the traditional recipe with soft wheat flour and potatoes. The ingredients are soft wheat flour (70%), water, dehydrated potatoes (3.5%), salt and spices. Orecchiettine are small orecchiette, thin in the centre and thicker at the edges as tradition requires; they are made only of durum wheat semolina (77%) and water.

Both cook in about 3 minutes, faster than dry versions of these shapes. They are fresh pasta and are kept in the refrigerator. Egg is not an ingredient, but the product pages warn that the pasta may contain traces of egg, mustard and soy.

In Liguria trofie are classically served with pesto, and in Apulia orecchiette with broccoli rabe or tomato sauce; the range is meant for quick home versions of these regional dishes. It also suits people who avoid egg in their pasta.