Step by step

Blanch, peel and cut the tomatoes into pieces

Tips
Strozzapreti are also excellent with a simple meat or sausage sauce!
Trivia
The Italian name of this dish - Strozzapreti - arises because, according to legend, the housewives of Emilia Romagna made this pasta shape and then offered it to the local priest. It seems that their husbands secretly hoped that the priest would choke – ‘strozzare’ - during the meal!