Scialatielli

Pasta Scialatielli Gragnano IGP is a type of thick and short fettuccine or linguine like pasta featuring a rectangular cross section. It is typical of modern campanian cuisine, having originated on the Amalfi Cooast as a chef’s specialty.

Scialatiello may come from neapolitan language scigliatiello or sciliatiello, a derivative of the verb sciglià (“to ruffle”), and it roughly translates to “ruffled”: just like ruffled hair, scialatelli indeed look like “ruffled” strips of pasta when set in a dish