Pasta all'Ortolana Pasta all'Ortolana Pasta all'Ortolana is an Italian dish made by cooking various different vegetables before mixing them together with pasta ( translates "Greengrocer"). The recipe does not state a specific type of pasta, so it can be made with Fusilli, Fettuccine, Penne, Rigatoni, Farfalle or any other type of short Pasta. The vegetables used in the process are generally carrots, onions, leeks, garlic, zucchini, celery, yellow and red capsicum, cherry tomatoes and eggplants. Vegetables have to be washed and cleaned before slicing them in small strips (apart from the celery that needs to be chopped in even smaller pieces). The
Rigatoni con la pajata chyme and creates a sort of thick, creamy, cheese-like sauce. These rings can be served simply seasoned and grilled ("pajata arrosto") or in the traditional Roman dish in which pajata is stewed in a typical tomato sauce and served with rigatoni. Rigatoni con la pajata Rigatoni con la pajata (Romanesco dialect; standard Italian rigatoni con la pagliata ) is a classic dish of the Roman cuisine. The dish can be found in some traditional trattorias in Rome. "Pajata" is the term for the intestines of an unweaned calf, i.e., only fed on its mother's milk. The intestines are cleaned and