Mediterranean Island

Sardinia

Sardinia has a singular pasta vocabulary: malloreddus, fregola, culurgiones, lorighittas, and sauces scented with saffron, sausage, mint, and bottarga.

Capital: Cagliari 2 recipes Island pastures, durum wheat, saffron, sheep cheese, bottarga.

Pasta identity

Sardinian pasta shapes are deeply local and often ceremonial.

Malloreddus, small ridged dumpling-like pasta, catches sausage-tomato sauce; culurgiones are sealed like wheat ears.

The island pantry is pastoral and maritime at once: sheep cheese and bottarga can sit on the same table.

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