Penne Rigate Pasta 500g by The Yorkshire Pasta Company - British Pasta

One of the all-time favourites: penne. We make our penne ‘rigate’, meaning ridged, which helps this little guy hold its shape and soak up sauce. ‘Penne’ comes from the Italian word for quill and the angled end encourages even more sauce to be scooped up. Safe to say this is one saucy fella. These characteristics mean that this pasta is destined for a baked masterpiece.

Mass manufactured pasta takes two hours to make, arriving as flour and leaving in a plastic bag. Ours takes two days. We dry our pasta slowly overnight, at low temperatures, allowing the dough to gently mature and develop flavour. As the old saying goes, what you put in is what you get out, and the same goes for the quality of flour and the resulting pasta. We source our flour from a local mill, working directly with the miller, ensuring superb quality grain with the desired attributes for our recipe. The flour goes through strict quality checks at the mill, and each batch is inspected by ourselves on arrival. We don’t use any eggs in our recipes, so our pastas are all vegan. The drying process, which is bespoke for each shape, removes excess moisture from the dough and locks in delicious taste. This means that each piece of pasta will stay scrumptious for up to 2 years.

Just like the master pasta makers ‘maestri pastai’ of Italy, we know that the only way to achieve superior quality pasta is to press the dough through bronze dies. Whilst industrial manufacturers have long since moved to teflon dies to aid their high speeds, we stay true to tradition and invest in old fashioned hard metal dies. Our dies create a rough surface on every single piece, making the pasta perfect for absorbing delicious sauces, elevating a meal from good to superb.

We worked very hard to be able to create our plastic free products. Once produced, our pasta is placed in our specially developed paper bags. These are 100% recyclable and each one is sealed by hand with two of our signature metal fastenings. These fastenings make our bags look good and more importantly help us avoid using plastic!

We only use water and locally milled wheat flour, of which 70% is grown right here in Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire. This means our products can be enjoyed by vegans and vegetarians. They are also free from stabilisers and preservatives. Just flour and water. Marvellous.

About the Producer
We are a small family business based in Malton showing the difference between mass manufactured supermarket 'pasta' and beautiful, sustainable, artisan pasta! We combine artisan techniques with locally milled wheat flour and sustainable paper packaging to create our premium British pasta.

Many industrial manufacturers have lost touch with the traditional techniques, opting for rapid, high-throughput methods. We want to take pasta back to basics, with no compromise on flavour, making pasta slowly and authentically; this is essential for enhancing the flavour of the grain and the pasta’s ability to absorb sauces. Some say it even results in a more easily digestible pasta.