Busiate from Timilìa

Slow-drying durum wheat semolina pasta, bronze drawn

This bronze-drawn pasta line is also produced entirely with Timilìa wheat. The busiate directly draws on the tradition of homemade pasta. They are most widespread in the province of Trapani, the westernmost part of Sicily. Their name comes from “buso” or the knitting needle in which the dough was twisted which was then pulled out, leaving this irregular but hollow shape, which has the property of collecting the sauce well. But the peasant tradition reminds us that, even before the use, the stem of the rush plant was used.