To prepare malloreddus, combine the re-milled semolina ... Some recipes include adding saffron to the dough, which gives a touch of flavor and color to the fresh pasta. To give the typical shape ...

And just from a few bites of malloreddus alla Campidanese – the unctuous sausage, the chewy pasta, the tangy tomatoes and the hint of saffron poking through on my palate – it’s easy to see why.

There are a couple of things you’ll need to make the recipe. For starters, Ray uses a specialty pasta, Saffron Malloreddus (Sardinian gnocchi) from Sfoglini. It’s a gourmet pasta flavored and ...

The bride will then enter, to eat her malloreddus from the same plate as her new husband. Saffron is not the cheapest of materials; but where crocuses grow, the only investment needed to obtain it ...

First cultivated by the Phoenicians, saffron now colors and perfumes numerous dishes, from little gnocchi called malloreddus to gelato and zeppole, a fried dough eaten at Carnival. Naturally ...