short pasta
Bite-sized Italian shapes
Short pasta refers to small, compact pasta shapes as opposed to long strands like spaghetti or fettuccine.
The category includes penne, rigatoni, farfalle, fusilli, and dozens of other shapes designed to hold sauce in their ridges, tubes, or curves.
Short pastas are typically used in baked dishes, soups, and chunky sauces: I tossed the short pasta with roasted vegetables.
- penneTubular pasta, angled cuts
- rigatoniLarge ridged pasta tubes
- fusilliCorkscrew-shaped pasta
- farfalleButterfly-shaped Italian pasta
- macaroniShort curved pasta
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short pastaspaghetti
Long thin cylindrical pasta
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