Morelli - Toasted Fregula Pasta 500g

For more than 150 years, the Morelli family has crafted pasta in the Tuscan countryside near Pisa, passing its methods down through five generations. The pastificio is famous for one distinctive ingredient: wheat germ. Industrial milling typically strips the germ from the flour, but Morelli’s artisan process restores it, giving many of its pastas a richer aroma and even tinting the cooking water a faint green. Alongside Tuscan classics, the company makes traditional regional shapes from across Italy.

Fregula is a beloved specialty of Sardinia, where cooks have long made it by working semolina and water together by hand into small, irregular pearls, then toasting them in the oven. Morelli’s version is crafted from durum wheat semolina and formed into small, uniform pieces before being lightly toasted, a step that develops deeper flavor and gives the pasta its varied golden to amber hue. The toasting also helps each piece hold its shape during cooking.

Toasted fregula brings warm, nutty notes reminiscent of lightly browned bread and roasted grain. The pearls cook up firm and pleasantly chewy, with a hearty texture that stands up well in brothy and saucy dishes alike.