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Home » Pasta Types » Lagane » Lagane pasta from Southern Italy

July 8, 2017

Lagane pasta from Southern Italy

homemade lagane pasta

Lagane is a type of rustic fresh pasta typical of the southern Italian regions. It may differ in size depending on the cook and the area, but is usually thicker and wider than tagliatelle but narrower than lasagna. Lagane are particularly popular in the Southern regions of Campania, Basilicata, Calabria and Puglia, where they are traditionally served  in soups or pasta dishes with the excellent legumes grown in abundance in these regions, especially chickpeas. However, in Puglia, particularly Salento, they are also sometimes fried in boiling oil until they become swollen and crunchy.

homemade lagane pasta

Lagane are believed to be the ancestors of today’s lasagne and the oldest form of pasta. The word lagane, like lasagna or lasagna, comes from ancient Greece where it was used to describe a pasta made of flour and water, which was cooked on a stone and then cut into strips. The Roman Cicero wrote about his passion for the ‘Laganum’ or  ‘laganas’ and the Roman poet Horace wrote about a soup with lagana and chickpeas which he ate in his home town, Venosa in Basilicata. Horace’s writings are said to be the first written reference to pasta!

homemade lagane pasta

Lagane are usually made by hand in Southern Italy and very few pasta makers produce a dried version. Although I have seen some available online, I couldn’t find it in the supermarkets here in Northern Italy. Since I wanted to make a typical pasta dish from Basilicata, lagane with chickpeas (lagane e ceci) I decided to make this pasta myself!

homemade lagane pasta

I’m a bit lazy when it comes to making homemade pasta as here we have such a large choice of good quality dried and fresh pasta. However, I am so glad I made these lagane. I am sure that the dish would not have turned out quite so tasty had I used a ready-made pasta, plus it gives one such a great sense of achievement to have made everything from scratch including the pasta! Why not give it a try, lagane really are the simplest of pastas to make!

homemade lagane pasta

 
How to make Lagane!
Ingredients;

300 g of durum wheat flour

150 ml of tepid water

Instructions

Sift the flour into a mound. Make a hole in the center and add water a little at a time using a fork to mix the water into the flour.

Knead and work the mixture until you get a smooth elastic dough (15 minutes).

Roll the dough into a ball and let it rest for half an hour at room temperature wrapped in cling film.

Put the dough on a floured board or surface. Cut about one third off and roll this out with a rolling pin until you get about 2mm of thickness and a shape as close to rectangular as possible.  If you have a pasta machine you can use it to produce lasagna sheets.

Roll the sheet of pasta up and then cut it into sections of 2-3 cms in width. Unroll the cut sections and your lagane are ready! Continue with the rest of the dough.

Let the pasta rest for about 20 minutes before cooking it. Fresh pasta usually cooks very quickly, but the exact time will depend on the thickness of your pasta.

lagane pasta with chickpeas

My lagane pasta with chickpeas.

Filed Under: Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Lagane, Pasta Types, Puglia Tagged With: fresh pasta, homemade pasta, lagane

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  1. Pam says

    March 20, 2022 at 9:01 pm

    What kind of flour do you exactly use for this pasta? “00,” semola rimacinata, or coarse semolina? Thank you.

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    • Jacqui says

      March 21, 2022 at 9:21 am

      Hi Pam, thanks for your comment. I made the lagane pasta with semola rimacinata which is the most traditional flour for Southern Italian flour and water pasta. It’s finer then semolina because it’s milled twice. I’m going to edit this post to say that. It’s one of the first homemade pasta posts on my site and I now realize it definitely needs updating!

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  2. Fernando Alerts says

    March 12, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    Never tried this pasta. Eager to taste it.

    Grazie

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  3. Pamela Milo says

    September 08, 2018 at 11:40 pm

    Wonderful site. I have a question about pronunciation. My grandmother always made lagane e ceci and she pronounced it “LA-ga-na”. I was just watching Lidia. She made a Calabrian dinner and it included lagane e ceci. She pronounced it “la-GA-nay”. What is your thought? Grazie.

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    • Jacqui says

      September 09, 2018 at 1:06 am

      Hi Pamela, I would pronounce it like Lidia, lagane = la-Ga-nay. However, lagane is the plural of lagana, like lasagna is the singular of lasagne. Italians usually refer to pasta in the plural and it’s not an uncountable concept in Italian. So, la-ga-na makes sense too!

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