How many types of pasta can you recognise?
How many types of pasta can you recognise?
Think you can tell your rigatoni from your radiatori, and farfalle from fusilli? Test your knowledge of pasta types with our quiz
Think you can tell your rigatoni from your radiatori, and farfalle from fusilli? Test your knowledge of pasta types with our quiz
Thick, noodle-like spaghetti, often made from wholewheat flour, butter and duck eggs. Like other long, thin pasta, this is best served with light seafood sauces, cream- or oil-based sauces.
The name for these short twists translates as ‘priest strangler’. Serve with light, smooth sauces that will cling to the twists - pesto would work well.
These flower like cones love heavy, creamy sauces...what are they called?
Also means ‘guitar’, and this long thin pasta is cut using a harp-like tool. The fresh pasta dough is pushed through the fine strings to cut it into strands. Serve with silky cream- or oil-based sauces.
These small, rolled pasta shapes are traditionally served the Genovese way with pesto, green beans and potatoes.
The name comes from the Italian for 'seashell'. Perfect for serving with a tomato or meat sauce.
Orecchiette or ‘little ears’ are traditionally served with broccoli rabe, anchovies, chilli and garlic.
The ridges of these squat pasta shapes are great for carrying almost any sauce but what are they called?
Served with a meat sauce or in a casserole, these thin, twisted, tube-like pasta are called...
Ridged, wagon-wheel like pasta shapes look great in pasta salad but what are they known as?