Pasta is an incredibly versatile Italian dish that has been well-absorbed by other cultures around the world. For some people, it can be one of the simplest dishes to cook. On the other hand, there exists a rare variety of pasta that even expert chefs fail to replicate.
We are talking about Su Filindeu, which is said to be the rarest pasta in the world. It's a very specific pastoral traditional recipe in Sardinia - a large Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. It's so difficult and time-consuming to prepare, that for 300 years only the women of a single Sardinian family knew how to make this pasta, reported BBC.
A video posted by digital creator @sortedfood is going viral on Instagram, showing this rarest pasta in the world. "Until recently, only three people on the planet were making it," the video says. 'Su Filindeu' translates to "the threads of God".
For more than 300 years, the recipe and technique have only been passed down through the "women in Abraini's family - each of whom have guarded it tightly before teaching it to their daughters," reported BBC. However, now the recipe is endangered and many people have even attempted to learn it, but failed. Celebrity chef and restaurateur Jamie Oliver is one of them.
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