Did you know?
1. The word “pasta” means dough in Italian.
2. Italians make over 600 varieties of Pasta.
3. Pasta dough consists of 3 ingredients – Flour, Water & Salt.
Pasta for Runny Sauces:
Spaghetti: Long,
thin, round, available in different widths.
Bucatini: Fatter,
hollow version of spaghetti.
Linguine: Flattened
version of spaghetti, often served with seafood sauces.
Rigatone or Pipe Rigate: Small tube shaped.
Fettuccini: Thick,
narrow ribbon.
Tagliatelle: Flat ribbon
pasta, served with meat, creamy sauces & baked dishes.
Penne: Hollow pasta, diagonally cut ends.
Pasta for Baked Dishes:
Lasagna: Widest
of the ribbon-type pasta, layered with filling, covered by white sauce &
cheese and baked.
Cannelloni: Largest
of the tube shaped pastas, stuffed, covered in white or cheese sauce and baked.
Macaroni: Hollow, rounded tubes.
Pastas for Salads:
Conchiglie: Shell
shaped.
Fusilli or Spirali: Twisted, screw shaped.
Farfalle: Means
butterfly in Italian. Also looks like bows.
Pastas for Soups:
Vermicelli: Long, thin and wound up in little nests.