How to Use durum wheat in a Sentence

durum wheat

noun
  • And its smell is very far from the aroma of durum wheat.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The farmer, Lane Unhjem, lives near Crosby, and grows durum wheat and canola.
    Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The trouble is, less than a tenth of the world’s total wheat production is durum wheat.
    Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Less than 10% of the world’s total wheat production is durum wheat.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 8 May 2023
  • Orzo pasta is made with semolina flour, which in turn is made of durum wheat.
    Catherine Lo, Good Housekeeping, 5 June 2019
  • Five months’ worth of soft wheat and four months’ worth of durum wheat was stockpiled by the end of last month, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.
    Jihen Laghmari, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2020
  • Like chapati, puri is made from a simple durum wheat flour dough.
    Saveur Editors, Saveur, 25 Mar. 2020
  • From there, the fish gets coated with spices and semolina, a coarsely ground durum wheat, which creates a lovely golden crust.
    Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • This is despite the falling price of durum wheat, which has dropped by 30%, according to officials.
    Emma Ogao, ABC News, 13 May 2023
  • The recipe calls for only three ingredients: durum wheat flour, water and salt.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • For millennia, Jordan has been home to a high-quality, hard durum wheat – the type that is today prized in Italy for pasta.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Costly, as in a big rise in prices customers pay for dry pasta and other consumer products made from durum wheat, like couscous and some kinds of bread.
    Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The bulk of their crop is durum wheat, which is exported by cargo ship to countries in Africa and Latin America for foods such as pastas and couscous.
    Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The sandy texture of these shortbread-like cookies comes from semolina flour, made from durum wheat, which is usually used for pasta.
    Magdalena O'Neal, Sunset Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Unhjem already had his peas harvested before his heart attack, but the group spent over seven hours on his durum wheat and canola crops.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Both rotis and parathas can be made in different ways but typically are both made from durum wheat flour and water.
    Nik Sharma, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2018
  • The price of seafood will probably continue to rise because so much of it is imported via air and ship, and pasta prices may surge due to the weakest durum wheat harvest since the 1960s.
    Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Dry pasta relies essentially on one type of wheat, durum wheat, which only gets produced in certain parts of the world.
    Priyanka Vora, Quartz, 3 May 2022
  • The sandy texture of these shortbreadlike cookies comes from semolina, made from durum wheat and usually used for pasta.
    Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Typically, chapati flour is made from durum wheat — one of the hardest varieties of wheat used to make pasta and great for flatbread.
    Anupy Singla, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • In November, pasta makers in Italy were fretting over the potential of a durum wheat shortage due to harvest setbacks.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The government has pledged to double its production of durum wheat by 2025 in an apparent bid to ensure pasta supplies.
    Washington Post, 5 July 2021
  • Lane Unhjem, who farms durum wheat and canola at his farm near Crosby, North Dakota, went into cardiac arrest after his combine harvester caught on fire.
    Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Unlike some other staple Indian breads, which are unleavened and crafted from durum wheat flour, or atta, fluffy naan is made with all-purpose flour and yeast.
    Saveur Editors, Saveur, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Boelts irrigates 2,000 acres with Colorado River water that grows one or two crops of lettuce and other vegetables in winter, wheat in spring, melons in fall and spring, and durum wheat and cotton in spring and summer.
    Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • This summer, her harvest of durum wheat yielded 30 percent below normal.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 20 July 2022
  • Lane Unhjem was driving his combine harvester across a field of durum wheat on his North Dakota farm earlier in the month, when suddenly smoke began billowing from the machine.
    Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Pasta is typically made with just durum wheat and water, so wheat prices should correlate with pasta prices, activists argue.
    Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 11 May 2023
  • Unlike traditional pastas made from refined durum wheat or semolina, whole-wheat flour maintains the bran and germ during processing.
    Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Semolina–coarsely ground durum wheat–gives Gemma Sciabica’s gnocchi a chewy texture.
    Ben Fogel, Sunset Magazine, 13 Oct. 2020

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