Rodriguez, Jenn Alyssa D.
Spaghetti
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Different Varieties of Pasta
1. Angel Hair Pasta
Angel hair pasta is long and thin,
thinner than spaghetti. It’s best with
light oil-based and cream sauces.
Anything too chunky may overpower
it.
2. Bucatini
It looks a lot like traditional spaghetti.
However, it’s more round, and there’s
a hole through the middle that gives
each noodle a hollow center. This
makes it a little thicker than spaghetti
noodles
3. Fettuccine
Like a flat spaghetti noodle — that’s
fettuccini. It’s a thicker and more
dense noodle. It’s fairly wide, so it
works well with chunky meat sauces,
unlike other types of long pasta.
4.
It’s cylinder-shaped like angel hair and
bucatini. However, it’s thickness falls
somewhere in the middle. It’s not
quite as thin as angel’s hair, but it’s
thinner than bucatini.
5. Linguine
Linguine resembles fettuccine, but it’s
not as wide. It’s a common noodle
pairing for seafood dishes, mixed with
white wine sauces and clams and
mussels.
6. Pappardelle
Pappardelle pasta noodles are even
better at meshing with rich, meat-
based sauces
7. Tagliatelle
It’s easy to mistake tagliatelle and
fettuccine. Both types of pasta look
like flattened spaghetti and are a
similar width, but tagliatelle will be a
little thicker of a bite.
8. Vermicelli
Vermicelli noodles are skinny.
There’s Italian and Asian
vermicelli — one is made with
semolina and the latter a rice
noodle.
9. Lasagna
This is easily the most common
type of sheet pasta. Its ruffled,
decorative edges characterize
its shape
10. Tortellini
Tortellini is a ring shaped
stuffed pasta that is typically
filled with meat, cheese or
vegetables.
11. Ravioli
Ravioli is square and stuffed.
Store-bought ravioli is often
on the smaller side.
12. Manicotti
It is a very large tube-shaped
pasta, usually ridged, that is
stuffed and baked.
13. Ziti
Ziti is another type of pasta that
looks very similar to penne. It’s
also narrow and hollow, but it has
straight edges and no ridges in its
texture.
14. Rigatoni
Wide tubes of pasta that have
ridges on the outside, but are
smooth on the inside.
15. Penne
It’s a hollow cylinder-shaped
noodle with slanted edges. It has
ridges that make its texture ideal
for catching sauce.
16. Rotelli
Rotelli looks a lot like something
you’d see in a kid’s soup (and
often will!). It’s a fun wheel shape
that catches all types of sauces
and ingredients in a soup or
pasta. It’s small and bite-sized.
17. Gemelli
It’s one noodle twisted to look
that way. It collects sauce well,
and it’s a common noodle choice
when adding leafy veggies and
herbs to pasta and pasta salad.
18. Ditalini
Ditalini is also on the smaller end
of the spectrum when it comes
to small pasta shapes. If you
were to slice a ziti noodle into
several smaller noodles, that’s
what ditalini resembles.
19. Jumbo Shells
It’s simply another name for
jumbo conchiglie.
20. Farfalle
The word farfalle means butterflies
in Italian and is commonly referred
to as bow tie pasta because of its
shape.
21. Elbows
Elbow macaroni is one of the most
common tube pasta shapes with its
short, semicircular shape.
22. Cavatappi
Cavatappi is a short S-shaped pasta
tube. spiral-shaped noodle is also
referred to as double elbow pasta.
23. Fussili
This spiral-shaped noodle has a lot
of grooves and crevices to catch
extra sauce and dressings. It’s
sturdy enough to toss with a
thicker sauce like marinara or meat
sauce. But it’s also commonly used
in pasta salads.