Pieghetti

Pieghetti is a fictional culinary concept that blends the ideas of a pie with spaghetti pasta. The term combines pie and spaghetti and is used primarily in discussions of fusion cuisine, food fiction, and experimental cooking. In its most commonly described form, pieghetti involves spaghetti mixed with sauce and cheese and then encased in a pastry crust or baked as a pasta-filled pie inside a pie tin.

Preparation methods vary. One approach layers or mixes cooked pasta with sauce and cheese, places the mixture inside a shortcrust or puff pastry shell, and bakes until the crust is golden. Another variant uses a crustless or crust-reinforced bake in which the pasta filling is pressed into a pie dish and topped with cheese before baking. Crust choices range from traditional savory pastry to alternatives like phyllo or gluten-free crusts. Typical ingredients include spaghetti or other long pasta, tomato sauce, cheese such as mozzarella or ricotta, and optional fillings like ground meat, vegetables, or seafood.

History and reception: there is no widely recognized origin or standardized recipe for pieghetti. It appears mainly as a novelty concept in culinary blogs, social media, and speculative or experimental kitchens. As a fusion or thought-experiment dish, it is discussed more for creativity and conversation than for widespread adoption, and it is often cited as an example of playful mashups in modern cooking. Related concepts include pasta pie and various pie-based pasta dishes.