The Terre dell'Olmo pasta is exclusively produced with semolina, wholemeal semolina or "Saragolla" durum wheat semolina which is 100% of our production, it is sown, grown, harvested and ground under the sun of Salento.
Our Saragolla wheat is born in our fields, goes through our small mill and is completed in our artisan pasta production laboratory.
In the respect of the ancient Salento pasta-making tradition, we have therefore decided to produce also semolina pasta.
Semolato is a more complete product than semolina because, deriving from the primary milling of wheat, it contains all of its parts,including the germ, that give our pasta the characteristic flavour of freshly milled wheat which can be perceived in the cooking phase.
From a nutritional point of view, the products obtained using semolina are richer in minerals, less caloric and have a lower glycemic index than those obtained from semolina.
Bronze drawing also gives all our pasta shapes that characteristic roughness on the internal and external surfaces of the pasta that allows the sauce to better adhere than normal Teflon drawn pasta.
Our artisan process involves a long and slow drying process that lasts up to 20-22 hours, depending on the shapes, which is carried out at low temperature in analogy to the ancient tradition according to which pasta should be dried in the sun, better if accompanied by sea breezes from both the nearby Adriatic and Ionian seas.
The result is aproduct of the highest quality, with unique nutritional and organoleptic characteristics, highly digestible because it is not gluten-enriched and absolutely respectful of the environment because a traditional cultivation is associated, as mentioned, with a very short chain.
The tasting boxes containing 10 packs of 500 gr. can be assorted with different formats to choose from those available (e.g. Penne rigate, Fusilloni-Capricci, Paccheri, Mezzi paccheri, Calamarata, Gnocchetti rigati). The chosen formats, with the relative quantities, must be specified when placing the order in section 7 of cart "Additional information".
