Italian Pasta Recipes

Pasta comes in many different shapes and sizes. There are simple string-shaped pasta like spaghetti and vermicelli ribbon-shaped ones like fettuccine and linguine.

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Short tubes like elbow macaroni and penne, decorative fancy shapes like farfalle and rotelle. Then you'd also find large sheets like lasagna, and hollow pasta stuffed with filling, like ravioli, manicotti, and tortellini.

The basic ingredients are usually the same. The shape and characteristics of each variety's surface makes it better suited for certain kinds of sauce.

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Kel January 8, 2009 at 7:32 pm

I absolutely love pasta. My favourite is fettucine so I’m a little bit disappointed that the Italian restaurant I work in only has spaghetti and penne.

Lesley January 9, 2009 at 5:46 am

Me too! My favourite is capellini, it’s so delicate and goes well with light sauces. Maybe suggest putting fettucine on the menu? Just tell them is it’s basically tagliatelle, and it’s on every menu in Rome. They might even thank you, you never know.

Kim January 15, 2009 at 1:06 pm

I like angel hair, also i like making wide egg noodles, they go good in anything :) Or just with butter.

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