We’ve reached the final video in our collaboration with the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 2026, and we are honored to have been part of this culinary journey. We close this chapter right here in Cortina, with 88-year-old Chiara. She is preparing a traditional dish from the region: casunziei, half-moon-shaped ravioli filled with beetroot and served with a rich butter and poppy seed sauce.
For the dough:
300g flour (with 30% rye flour, so about 90g rye flour and 210g all-purpose flour)
150ml water
For the filling:
50g flour
1 beetroot
4 medium potatoes
Salt, to taste
Pepper, to taste
A pinch of cinnamon
To serve:
Grated Parmesan cheese
Clarified butter
Poppy seeds
Buon appetito!
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36 Comments
Grazie mille, Chiara!! I love Friday evenings with a new Pasta Granny!
Yummy❤❤😊
Chiara's casunziei deserve to be the official dish for the athletes in competition at Cortina d'Ampezzo's Winter Olimpic Games 2026 🙂
Ravioli annegati nel burro! 😍😍😍 Ricetta da provare assolutamente! Grazie per la condivisione!
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ui! That is a lot of melted butter! 🙃
I ❤ beetroot! I never thought of using it as a pasta filling! Yummy!! Thank you, Chiara!
Mouth watering, I won't be able to take this off my mind until I make it.
Love her ironic sense of humor
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Chiara is beautiful !!! ❤
Amazing! I am going to try to make these 😋
An elegant old lady who cooks delicious food! She reminds me of an aunt of mine ! Une vieille dame élégante qui cuisine des plats délicieux ! Elle me rappelle une de mes tantes !
I love beetroot, so I'll have to try this recipe. Thank you for this great collaboration.
Beets have a lovely earthy sweetness. Their flavor shines through without being too sweet and the savoriness satisfies making the food a very filling dish. I have never thought of using beets in ravioli. This is totally new to me and makes me want to try it very soon! With Easter coming, this would be a delicious part of that celebrated Feast! Thank you Chiara and Pasta Grannies for another wonderful episode!
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I love beets, but slicing them does make your fingers look like you've been dipping them in blood, just like she says as she cuts them!
I wasn't sure about this BUT then she poured on that hot butter and I was grabbing my keys to go shopping for the ingredients to make this tonight! 🤤
Rye and beetroot is a cracking combination…tempted to try the cabbage version!
I love Pasta Grannies
My father was born in Cortina. In 1922!
Wow paradise view from her window🥹
That looks delicious! What a treasure she is!
I like doing the toasted flour. For a long time I did not thicken sauces at all or just tossed in a bit of polenta to absorb the moisture. I finally decided I really want rich flavor filled sauces for my simple reheat suppers. Using the toasted flour in the filling looks like a versatile option.
Another vegetarian *masterpiece*!! This looks so good I might have to make it tomorrow 🫶
the view from her window sweet jesus!
Grazie Chiara, beet roots are my favorite vegetable, another recipe to try, best full views of the mountains, indeed even though born in Italy but living in the USA, they all say their Americans. Beautiful North of Italy in the mountains. Arrivederci 🙏🥰👏
It really does look like a getman dish at the end.
Bravissima chiara bellissimo.. Viva Italia 💚🤍♥️ I absolutely love this 💚🤍❤️..
What a dynamic PG Chiara is, and what a delicious dish to share with us all, thank you 🙏
What a glorious location! It befits an equally glorious Chiara! She has a wry wit and a view on life I hope remains. Thank you for another great episode.
These casunziei are delicious with small pieces of smoked scamorza.
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Thank you for sharing, I would love this I think….I love beetroot!!
What a paradise! and life! God Bless!
I love that she gave Thanks to God for the fact that she still lives in her homeland. Such truer words cannot be expressed !! I would Thank God as well. Being uprooted from your birthplace is truly sad. 😞. As An Italian that was brought to North America I would love to have been nurtured in my own land and where my ancestors came from. Best person to give thanks to God❤ ✨🙏