Pasta-like
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Campanelle |
Flattened bell-shaped pasta with
a frilly edge on one end |
Little bells |
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Capunti |
Short convex ovals resembling an
open empty pea pod |
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Casarecce |
Short lengths rolled into an S
shape |
From casereccio meaning homemade |
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Cavatelli |
Short, solid lengths |
From the verb cavare meaning to hollow |
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Cencioni |
Petal shaped, slightly curved
with rough convex side |
Little rags |
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Conchiglie |
Seashell shaped |
Shells |
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Conchiglioni |
Large, stuffable seashell shaped |
Large shells |
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Corzetti |
flat figure-eight stamped |
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Creste di
galli |
Short, curved and ruffled |
Cocks' combs |
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Croxetti |
Flat coin-shaped discs stamped
with coats of arms |
Little crosses |
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Fantolioni |
Panda-shaped bow-ties commonly
served with boiled clives |
Pre-packaged pandas |
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Farfalle |
Bow tie or butterfly shaped |
Butterflies |
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Farfallone |
Larger bow ties |
Large butterfly |
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Fiorentine |
Grooved cut tubes |
Florentine |
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Fiori |
Shaped like a flower |
Little flowers |
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Foglie d'ulivo |
Shaped like an olive leaf |
Olive leaf |
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Fusilli |
Three-edged spiral, usually in
mixed colours. Many vendors and brands sold as fusilli are two-edged |
From fusile, archaic/dialect form of fucile, meaning rifle. As the inside barrel of a gun is
"rifled" using a similar screw-shaped device |
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Fusilli Bucati |
A spring-shaped variety of the
above |
Holed rifles |
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Gemelli |
A single S-shaped strand of
pasta twisted in a loose spiral |
Twins |
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Gigli |
Cone or flower shaped |
Lilies |
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Gramigna |
Short curled lengths of pasta |
Scutch-grass; more generically,
"infesting weed" |
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Lanterne |
Curved ridges |
Lantern holders |
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Lumache |
Snail shaped |
From lumaca, meaning snail |
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Lumaconi |
Jumbo Lumache |
Large snails |
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Maltagliati |
Flat roughly cut triangles |
Badly cut |
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Mandala |
Designed
by Philippe Starck in 1987 for French pasta maker Panzani.[1] |
Design based on compensating for
overcooking. |
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Marille |
Designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro
in 1983 - like a rolling ocean wave in cross-section with internal
rugosities, but unsuccessful and no longer produced.[2] |
From mare, meaning "sea" |
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Orecchiette |
Bowl or ear shaped pasta |
Little ears |
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Pipe |
Larger
versions of macaroni |
Smoking pipes |
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Quadrefiore |
Square with rippled edges |
Flower quadrants |
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Radiatore |
Shaped like radiators |
Radiator |
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Ricciolini |
Short wide noodles with a
90-degree twist |
From riccio, curly |
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Ricciutelle |
Short spiralled noodles |
From riccio, curly |
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Rotelle |
Wagon wheel shaped pasta |
Little wheels (from ruota—wheel) |
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Rotini |
2-edged spiral, tightly wound.
Some vendors and brands are 3-edged and sold as rotini |
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Spirali |
A tube which spirals round |
Spirals |
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Spiralini |
More tightly-coiled fusilli |
Little spirals |
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Strangolapreti |
Rolled across their width |
Priest-chokers or
priest-stranglers |
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Torchio |
Torch shaped |
Winepress |
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Trofie[3] |
Thin twisted pasta |
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Tubular
pasta |
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Bucatini |
Hollow spaghetti |
little holes |
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Calamarata |
Wide ring shaped pasta |
squid (also known as
"calamari") |
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Calamaretti |
Smaller Calamarata |
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Cannelloni |
Large stuffable tubes |
big pipes or big reeds |
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Cavatappi |
Corkscrew-shaped macaroni |
corkscrews; also known as
Cellentani, spirali and Scoobi do |
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Cellentani |
Corkscrew-shaped tube |
also known as Cavatappi, spirali
and Scoobi do |
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Chifferi |
Short and wide macaroni |
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Ditalini |
Short tubes; like elbows but
shorter and without a bend |
small fingers |
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Fideuà |
Short and thin tubes |
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Gomito
maccheroni |
Bent tubes |
Elbow macaroni |
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Elicoidali |
Slightly ribbed tube pasta; the
ribs are corked as opposed to those on rigatoni |
Helicoidal |
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Fagioloni |
Short narrow tube |
little beans |
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Garganelli |
Square egg noodle rolled into a
tube |
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Maccheroni |
As long as a little finger,
usually striped. Note: The English term macaroni is used in the US for any tubular pasta, not just maccheroni. |
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Maccheroncelli |
Hollow pencil shaped pasta |
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Maltagliati |
Short wide pasta with diagonally
cut ends |
Roughly cut |
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Manicotti |
Large stuffable ridged tubes |
Sleeves (from the Italian,
"manica") |
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Mezzani pasta |
Short curved tube |
From Mezzo meaning half-size |
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Mezze Penne |
Short version of penne |
half-pens |
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Mezzi
Bombardoni |
Wide short tubes |
Half bombards |
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Mostaccioli |
Sometimes confused to be another
name for Penne, Mostaccioli differs in that it does not have ridges.
Mostaccioli is also called Penne Lisce or "smooth penne" |
"mustaches" |
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Paccheri |
Large tube |
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Pasta al ceppo |
Shaped like a cinnamon stick |
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Penne |
Medium length tubes with ridges,
cut diagonally at both ends |
literally "pens"
because the tip is similar to that of a quill, or fountain pen |
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Penne rigate |
Penne with ridged sides |
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Penne lisce |
Penne with smooth sides |
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Penne Zita |
Wider version of penne |
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Pennette |
Short thin version of penne |
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Pennoni |
Wider version of penne |
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Perciatelli |
Thicker bucatini |
From the verb Perciare meaning Hollow inside |
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Rigatoncini |
Smaller version of rigatoni |
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Rigatoni |
Large and slightly curved tube |
from "riga," meaning
line: rigatoni means that with lines (large). "rigato" or
"rigate", when added to another pasta name means lined, or, with
ridges added, as in "spaghetti rigati" |
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Sagne
Incannulate |
Long tube formed of twisted
ribbon |
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Trenne |
Penne shaped as a triangle |
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Trennette |
Smaller version of trenne |
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Tortiglioni |
Narrower rigatoni |
From the verb Torcere meaning To Twist; Twisted, wringed |
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Tuffoli |
Ridged rigatoni |
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Ziti |
Long, narrow hose-like tubes |
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Zitoni |
Wider version of Ziti |
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Strand
noodles |
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Straight round-rods |
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In order from thickest to
thinnest. |
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Translation |
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Spaghettoni |
[spagetˈtoni] |
Thick spaghetti |
Thick little twine |
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Spaghetti |
[spaˈgetti] |
Most common round-rod pasta |
spago means twine, spaghetto means
little twine, spaghetti is plural |
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Spaghettini |
[spagetˈtini] |
Thin spaghetti |
thin little twine |
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Fedelini |
[fedeˈlini] |
Between spaghetti and vermicelli
in size |
little faithful ones |
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Vermicelloni |
[vermitʃelˈloni] |
Thick vermicelli |
Thick little worms |
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Vermicelli |
[vermiˈtʃɛlli] |
Thicker than capellini, thinner
than fedelini |
little worms |
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Capellini |
[kapelˈlini] |
Thinner than vermicelli, thicker
than angel hair |
fine hair |
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Capelli d'angelo |
[kaˈpelli
ˈdandʒelo] |
Thinnest round-rod pasta |
angel hair |
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Other |
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Type |
Description |
Translation |
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Barbina |
Thin strands often coiled into
nests |
little beards |
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Spaghetti
alla chitarra |
Similar to spaghetti, except
square rather than round, and made of egg in addition to flour |
named after the device used to
cut the pasta, which has a wooden frame strung with metal wires. Sheets of
pasta are pressed down onto the device, and then the wires are
"strummed" so that the slivers of pasta fall through. |
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Ciriole |
Thicker version of chitarra |
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Fusilli lunghi |
Very long coiled rods (like a
thin telephone cord) |
long rifles |
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Pici |
Very thick, long, hand rolled |
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Ribbon
pasta noodles |
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Type |
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Bavette |
Narrower version of tagliatelle |
Little thread |
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Bavettine |
Narrower version of bavette |
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Fettuce |
Wider version of fettuccine |
Ribbons |
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Fettuccine |
Ribbon of pasta approximately
6.5 millimeters wide |
Little ribbons |
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Fettucelle |
Narrower version of fettuccine |
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Lagane |
Wide noodles |
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Lasagne |
Very wide noodles that often
have fluted edges |
cooking pot |
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Lasagnette |
Narrower
version of lasagna |
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Lasagnotte |
Longer version of lasagna |
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Linguettine |
Narrower version of linguine |
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Linguine |
Flattened spaghetti |
little tongues |
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Mafalde |
Short rectangular ribbons |
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Mafaldine |
Long ribbons with ruffled sides |
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Pappardelle |
Thick flat ribbon |
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Pillus |
Very thin ribbons |
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Pizzoccheri |
Ribbon pasta made from buckwheat |
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Reginette |
Wide ribbon with rippled edges |
Little queens |
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Sagnarelli |
Rectangular ribbons with fluted
edges |
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Scialatelli of Scilatielli |
Homemade long spaghetti with a twisted long spiral |
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Stringozzi |
Similar to shoelaces |
From Stringhe meaning shoestrings |
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Tagliatelle |
Ribbon fairly thinner than fettuccine |
From "tagliare" - to
cut |
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Taglierini |
Thinner version of Tagliatelle |
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Trenette |
Thin ribbon ridged on one side |
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Tripoline |
Thick ribbon ridged on one side |
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Micro
pasta |
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Type |
Description |
Translation |
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Acini di pepe |
Bead-like pasta |
Peppercorns |
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Alphabets |
Pasta
shaped as letters of the alphabet |
Letters |
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Anelli |
Small rings of pasta |
rings |
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Anellini |
Smaller version of
anelli |
little rings |
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Couscous |
Grain looking pasta. Most common
in North Africa and Europe (especially France). Increasingly more common in
Asia and North America |
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Conchigliette |
Small shell shaped pasta |
little shells |
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Corallini |
Small short tubes of pasta |
little corals |
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Ditali |
Small short tubes |
thimbles |
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Ditalini |
Smaller versions of
ditali |
little thimbles |
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Farfalline |
Small bow tie shaped pasta |
either bow ties or little
butterflies |
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Fideos |
Short thin noodles |
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Filini |
Smaller
version of fideos |
Thin threads; (from filo meaning thread). |
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Fregula |
Bead-like
pasta from Sardinia |
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Funghini |
Small mushroom shaped pasta |
little mushrooms |
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Israeli
couscous |
wheat-based baked pasta |
baked flakes |
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Occhi di
pernice |
Very small rings of pasta |
Partridge's eyes |
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Orzo |
Rice
shaped pasta (also, Risoni) |
Barley |
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Pastina |
Small spheres about the same size or smaller than acini
di pepe |
Little pasta |
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Pearl Pasta |
Spheres slightly larger than acini di pepe |
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Quadrettini |
Small flat squares of pasta |
little squares |
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Risi |
Smaller
version of orzo |
little rice |
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Seme di melone |
Small seed shaped pasta |
melon seeds |
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Stelle |
Small star shaped pasta |
stars |
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Stelline |
Smaller version
of stelle |
little stars |
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Stortini |
Smaller version of elbow
macaroni |
Little crooked ones |
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Trachana |
Granular, irregular shaped pasta
of Greek origin |
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Stuffed
pasta |
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Agnolotti |
Semi-circular pockets; can be
stuffed with ricotta or mix of cheese and meats or pureed vegetables. |
Lambs' ears |
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Cannelloni |
Rolls of pasta with stuff
inside. Usually cooked in oven. |
Big tubes |
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Casoncelli |
A
semi-circular stuffed pasta, specifically associated with the style alla
bergamasca, which is stuffed with a mixture of bread crumbs, egg, cheese,
ground beef, salami, raisins, Amaretti biscuits, pear, and garlic.[4] |
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Fagottini |
A
'purse' or bundle of pasta, made from a round of dough gathered into a
ball-shaped bundle, often stuffed with ricotta and fresh pear.[5] |
Little purses |
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Occhi di Lupo |
A large, penne shaped pasta that
is stuffed. |
Eyes of The Wolf |
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Mandu |
Commonly referred as dumpling,
"potsticker" or "gyoza." Stuffed with vegetables, meat,
and seafood. Pronounced [Mah-n-doo]. Can be steamed, boiled, pan-fried or
deep-fried. |
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Mantı |
Turkish dumplings. Small squares
of dough with a bit of meat put in the middle, after which the four corners
are pressed together, giving a pyramidal shape. Served with yoghurt sauce and
melted butter. Central Asian mantı is more like mandu. |
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Mezzelune |
Semi-circular pockets; about 2.5
in. diameter. |
Half-moons |
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Panzerotti |
the pasta is made from eggs
cheese and flour |
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Pelmeni |
Meat-filled dumplings, usually
served in broth. |
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Pierogi |
Dumplings filled with meat,
vegetables, cheese or fruit. |
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Ravioli |
Square. About 3x3cm. Stuffed
with cheese, ground meat, pureed vegetables, or mixtures thereof. |
Possibly from rapa, "turnip". |
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Sacchettini |
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Little sacks |
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Tortellini |
Ring-shaped. Stuffed with a
mixture of meat and cheese. |
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Tortelloni |
Round or rectangular, similar to
ravioli. Usually stuffed with a mixture of cheese and vegetables. (The term tortelloni is also used for a larger
variety of tortellini.) |
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Irregular
shapes |
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Gnocchi |
Round in shape and often made
with flour plus potatoes. |
From the Italian gnocco, meaning
"a knot in wood" |
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Spätzle |
German egg pasta that is either
round in shape or completely irregular, when hand made. |
Means "little sparrow" in Swabian German. |
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