Luciana Mosconi - Spinach & Egg Tagliatelle Nests 250g

Luciana Mosconi learned to roll pasta dough as a child at her mother’s side in Le Marche, where making tagliatelle is a cherished ritual. Toward the end of the 1980s she opened a small homemade pasta shop in the hill town of Matelica, and in 1992 brothers Manfredo and Marcello Pennazzi tasted her tagliatelle and joined her in building a business around it. Today the company ranks among Italy’s leading premium egg pasta makers, producing dried pasta in Matelica and fresh pasta in nearby Ancona.

Every batch follows what the company calls the Luciana Mosconi Method. High quality durum wheat semolina is combined with fresh eggs from the Marche region, and for this variety spinach is added to the dough, giving the ribbons their vibrant green color. The dough is rolled into a rough, tenacious sheet, cut into tagliatelle, and shaped into nests before a very slow drying process lasting more than 24 hours, which helps preserve flavor and texture.

Cooked tagliatelle offer a rich, eggy flavor layered with a mild, earthy hint of spinach. The ribbons hold a pleasantly firm bite, and their porous, slightly rough surface clings beautifully to sauce.