DELALLO: Penne Ziti Bag Pasta, 16 oz

Penne Ziti is the smooth sibling of the popular Penne Rigate. With an irresistibly smooth tube-like shape made to capture sauces, Penne Ziti is a well know pasta shape that is famous for its starring role in the cheesey baked pasta dish, Baked Ziti. DeLallo Pasta comes from the town where pasta was born, a region near Naples, at the beginnning of the Amalfi Coast. The art of making this pasta begins with the very best quality wheat. Carefully choose wheat witht the highest gluten index, gluten content and protein content. All of these characteristics affect how the pasta cooks, as well as its taste and texture. The durum wheat is milled into coarse ground semolina flour and then carefully kneaded with cold, fresh, mineral-rich mountain spring water. Drying the pasta slowly at low temperature to reproduce the traditional way of making pasta. This method respects the ingredients, preserving the pasta's color, texture and aroma.