Franzeluta Shell Pasta 500g (17.6oz)

Franzeluta Shell Pasta is a 500g bag of classic shell-shaped (conchiglie-style) pasta from Franzeluta — one of the most recognisable food brands in the Republic of Moldova, producing bread, pasta, and bakery products — in the medium shell format: the curved, ridged pasta shape that cradles sauces within its concave surface and cooks firm and golden for the everyday pasta preparation. Franzeluta works in the Eastern European durum wheat pasta tradition, and the shell format represents the versatile everyday pasta of the Moldovan and Romanian kitchen — the shaped pasta that catches meat sauce, cream sauce, and vegetable preparation in equal measure and that the diaspora household keeps as the standard pantry pasta alongside egg noodles. Shell pasta (cochilii in Romanian, rakushki in Russian) is one of the most versatile pasta shapes in the Eastern European kitchen: it cooks evenly, holds its structure, and cradles sauce inside the cup of the shell in a way that a flat noodle cannot, making it suited to both sauced main dishes and cold pasta salads. Cook with a meat ragu or tomato sauce, boil and toss with butter and cheese as the simple pasta side, use in a cold pasta salad as the shaped pasta that catches the dressing, or serve as the Franzeluta shell pasta for any dish requiring a sturdy sauce-holding pasta shape.