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su filindeu (uncountable)

  1. A Barbagian Sardinian pasta made by pulling and folding semolina dough into thin threads, laying them in layers, and drying them to form textile-like sheets, which are broken into pieces and eaten in broth.
    • 2018 May 29, Elizabeth Minchilli, Eating My Way Through Italy: Heading Off the Main Roads to Discover the Hidden Treasures of the Italian Table, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
      [] a lesson in su filindeu. At this point, I had been thinking about su filindeu, and reading about it, for about two years. In the meantime, there had been a Jamie Oliver video floating around Facebook and so I assumed it was not that much of a secret []
    • 2021 October 26, Missy Robbins, Talia Baiocchi, Pasta: The Spirit and Craft of Italy's Greatest Food, with Recipes [A Cookbook], Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 245:
      [] hand-stretched noodles, su filindeu, a pasta so rare, labor-intensive, and utterly impossible to make that only three women, all members of the same family, still know how to do it.

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