How to Make Fileja (Calabrian Pasta Tubes)

walnuts

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds offer a similar texture with fewer calories.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast is dairy-free and adds a cheesy flavor.

Roll out a piece of dough into an even sheet about 1/4 of an inch thick.

Cut it into 1/2 inch wide strips.

Roll each strip into a thin rope about 1/4 of an inch thick.

Cut the ropes into 3 inch long pieces and sprinkle generously with semolina.

Place an iron ferretto on top of a dough rope.

Angle the ferretto slightly so it's offset at each end.

Press the ferretto down into the dough.

Roll back and forth until the dough mostly wraps around the rod.

Holding the dough loosely, gently twist and slide the ferretto out, leaving behind a hollow tube.

Transfer the hollow tube to a semolina dusted tray and repeat with the remaining dough.

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