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Bigoli mori in salsa

Thick dark bigoli, a Venetian pasta, made in the house from stone-milled ancient-grain flour, in salsa, onions cooked down with salted anchovies. It's the city's plain old fasting-day dish, and here the flour is the whole story.

Al Covo

Venetian · lagoon seafood · Slow Food · Castello, Venice

Campiello della Pescaria, Castello 3968, 30122 Venezia

  • Food + wine

The Benelli family's Castello restaurant, part of the Slow Food cooks' alliance, with fish from the lagoon and vegetables from Sant'Erasmo and the islands nearby. Diane Benelli makes the desserts.

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Why the bigoli in salsa

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  • Technique

    Dressed in salsa, Venice's sauce of onions and anchovies.

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  • Tradition

    Marked on the menu as the traditional recipe.

    “ricetta tradizionale”

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  • Sourcing

    Dark bigoli from ancient-grain flour, milled on stone.

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