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Pasta that became a tube just to hide more stuff inside itself.
means Large cylindrical pasta tubes stuffed with a filling—often meat, ricotta, or spinach—then covered in sauce and baked.
from Italian, the plural of cannellone, itself an augmentative of cannello, 'little tube' or 'reed,' from canna, 'cane' or 'pipe' (the same Latin canna behind 'canal' and 'channel'). So the name is gloriously literal: a big tube, born to be filled.
- name origin
- Italian for big reed or large pipe.
- two methods
- Roll flat sheets or stuff dried tubes.
- manicotti cousin
- Often confused with its ridged American relative.
- baked finish
- Always sauced and oven-blistered, never just boiled.
for instance
cannelloni siciliani — sicilian version with pasta tubes filled with meat, peas, and cheese sauce