Love at first... Klara and Drago Marić First they fell in love with each other, and then with pasta!

Published: 13.02.2023.

Tjestenina Klara Marić is a Croatian brand that produces traditional homemade Istrian pasta based in Kanfanar in Istria. It is a family business in which every member of the Marić family is involved, and the brand is proudly named after our Klara. As big fans of good cuisine and tradition, we noticed that our domestic market lacks pasta that is produced in a traditional way, which requires a lot of love and manual labor when making the dough.

With the desire that as many people as possible try homemade pasta produced in a traditional and authentic way, they decided to start production. We are the first producer in Croatia that dedicated itself to a special way of producing pasta, and the diverse range of products is of exceptional quality and unique traditional value. All this makes us the best-selling Croatian pasta producer on the domestic and foreign markets.

The secret of excellent pasta is in the flour.
In our production, we use the highest quality grains of durum wheat, grano duro. Durum or the so-called durum wheat is a variety of spring wheat that is a rich source of energy. It has a high protein content, which is extremely important for the production of high-quality pasta.

What makes our pasta special is that it is done most similar to homemade handmade, which is rolling over rollers. By rolling over rollers, the pasta retains the quality of the dough itself, which gains in softness and porosity. All our pasta is rolled, so we remain faithful to traditional, homemade and authentic pasta making.
We are faithful to traditional homemade and authentic pasta making.

We are the only producer in Croatia, along with only a few others in Italy, that produces matasse pasta - which is the highest quality, but also the most difficult method of production. Every time we say that we are the only ones in Croatia to produce tagliatelle on 'matasse', we want to emphasize the value of this method of production and the final product, a deep connection with tradition and our effort to provide you with nothing less than a superior product.

100% fresh eggs.
We use daily fresh eggs in our production, while powdered eggs are used in industrial production facilities.

Klara Marić pasta is also special in that it has a particularly long and slow drying and dehydration process. Drying is a key stage of the process for producing high-quality pasta. In our facility, the pasta is dried for 18-24 hours.

The pasteurization process is extremely important in the production of fresh pasta. It affects the quality of fresh pasta. In this way, microorganisms are killed, the shelf life is extended, and the pasta acquires a shine. In our facility, pasteurization is done with dry steam at approximately 80 degrees, which contributes to preserving the quality and nutritional characteristics of the product.

As we are faithful to traditional, homemade and authentic pasta making, we finish the last production process just like that - traditionally. In our production, pasta is packed by hand. Unlike the industrial approach where it is packed by machine (e.g. Tagliatelle in the form of a nest), manual packaging is something else. Contact with human hands, for us, brings warmth and a complete feeling of a domestic product.