Tumminia short pasta - Busiata from Trapani 100% wholemeal 500g

The Busiata di Tumminia is an artisanal pasta produced with timilia durum wheat, also called marzuolo wheat. Tumminia is a cultivation of marzuolo wheat, widely used already in the Greek era. The flours obtained from this grain allow the production of dark colored hard pasta which offers great taste and digestibility. 1. Processing: The busiata from Trapani is extruded in bronze and slowly dried at a low temperature. 2. Produced: in Sicily (Italy) 3. Cooking time: 8 - 10 minutes" Ingredients: Tumminia flour, water. Curiosity: Do you know why it is called busiata? The most accredited hypothesis is that the name comes from the busa, a stem of the disa - a typical plant of the Mediterranean maquis - which the farmers of the area used to wrap and tie the bundles of ears.