Beef tartar. This is made from very finely chopped raw fillet of beef mixed with onion, gherkins (US: dill pickles) and capers and formed into the shape of a steak. A depression is made in the top into which a raw egg is broken. It is eaten raw. The meat really should not be minced (US: ground). It is thought to have originated with the fierce Tartars of the Baltic region of Russia who shredded the meat with a knife and ate it raw.
Small pieces of pasta like squiggly worms traditionally made by the women of the Rechesse valley in Liguria with durum wheat, formed into small squiggles of rolled dough. They may be served with pesto. This pasta needs to cook for about 22 minutes. They might almost be termed gnocchi rather than pasta.
