Chef Peter Klein grew up with bags of cavatelli in the freezer. “I’m from North Jersey, so we called them ‘gavadeels,’” says Klein, now the executive chef of the Austin cocktail bar and restaurant ...

To make the potato cavatelli with cherry tomatoes and ricotta, first boil the potatoes for preparing the cavatelli (1); it will take 30-40 minutes depending on their size, until you can easily pierce ...