Pici Con 'Nduja (Handmade Pasta with Tomatoes and 'Nduja)

Name: Pici Con 'Nduja (Handmade Pasta with Tomatoes and 'Nduja)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1¼ cups (6¼ ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 cup (5¾ ounces), semolina flour, plus 1 cup for coating pasta; 2/3 cup, water; 2 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil, plus 1 tablespoon for brushing dough; , Table salt for cooking pasta; 2 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; ½ , onion, chopped fine; ½ teaspoon, table salt; 1 cup, passata; 2 ounces ’nduja, sausage, casing removed; ¼ cup, chopped fresh basil, divided; 1 ounce, Pecorino Romano cheese, grated (1/2 cup)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2023

For more than a millennium, Tuscan cooks have made pici—long, delectably chewy strands of pasta—using just their hands. You can too.

SERVES4

TIME2½ hours

Pici Con 'Nduja (Handmade Pasta with Tomatoes and 'Nduja)

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Pici (pronounced “PEE-chee,” or sometimes “PEE-shee”), are made of long, wonderfully chewy strands that have been rolled out on Tuscan tables since Etruscan times. Pici are inherently frugal too and simple to make. Just mix together a dough...

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