Pillus

Not to be confused with Pilus.

Pillus
TypePasta
Place of originItaly
Region or stateSardinia
Main ingredientsFlour, eggs[1]

Pillus is a type of pasta originating in the Sardinia island, particularly around Oristano.[2] A noodle-like pasta, it is made in thin ribbon strips. A feature of this pasta is that it is kneaded for a long time.[1] It is cooked in beef (or sometimes sheep) broth and served with pecorino cheese.[3][4] In Busachi the pasta is flavoured with toasted saffron and ground to a powder.[2]

Lisanzedas is a variant of pillus (and sometimes named as such) that is oven-baked in layers like lasagne. The shape of the pasta is large (7 to 8 inches) diameter disks rather than ribbons. It is the meat stew filling and the pecorino cheese that are the common factors rather than the shape of the pasta. A variant of lisanzedas found around Cagliari is flavoured with saffron.[1] Another variant of this sort from Giba is flavoured with fennel.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Oretta Zanini De Vita, Encyclopedia of Pasta, University of California Press, pp. 211-21, 2009 ISBN 0520944712.
  2. ^ a b Alessandro Molinari Pradelli, La cucina sarda, Newton Compton Editori, 2012 ISBN 8854146161.
  3. ^ Tino Rozzo, Cucina Del Paradiso: The Sardinia Kitchen, p. 30, Xlibris Corporation, 2009 ISBN 1441576746.
  4. ^ a b Cristina Ortolani, L'Italia della pasta, p. 134, Touring Editore, 2003 ISBN 883652933X.