1. Spaghetti This is perhaps one of the most popular types of pastas shapes that are available today and it is considered to be one of the best inventions known to man. This pasta is sturdy in texture, which makes it the perfect vehicle to go along with a variety of different sauces. However, this type of pasta is not usually sued with any sauces containing large chunks or meat.
2. Spaghatini This tiny pasta’s name literally means tiny spaghetti. If you are going to use this for one of your Italian style recipes, I highly recommend that you use the highest quality brand that you can find and to make sure that you do not overcook this pasta. This type of pasta is great when paired with simple sauces, but nothing too heavy.
3. Linguine The word linguine literally means, “Little tongues,” and if you were to travel to Italy, you would find this type of pasta primary in the southern part of the amazing country. This pasta is exceptional when paired with sauces that require the pasta to have more surface room. This pasta is much sturdier than spaghetti and does not break under the weight of the sauce so easily.
4. Bucatini This pasta is often called Perciatelli by those who manufacture this kind of pasta. It is hollow and often used when preparing rather robost pasta sauce. In Italy you can primarily find this type of pasta being prepared in the south to central part of the country.
5. Fusilli This is a rather fun shape of pasta to use in any of your Italian style recipes. It kind of resembles a coiled phone cord in shape or can look similar to a corkscrew. This type of pasta is exceptional when paired with sauce that contain chunky bits as the chunky bits will cling to the pasta very well, allowing you to savor the dish that much more.
6. Penne If there is any type of tubular pasta that is used the most today, it is this kind of pasta. You can find these types of pasta in a variety of different sizes and with a variety of different ridges available. Penne goes extremely well with a variety of tomato pasta sauces, sauces that contain small chunks and even heavy cheese sauces.
7. Maccheroni This type of pasta has deep roots in Italian history. It first made an appearance in the courts of an aristocratic and ancient Italian society. Now however, this pasta is mostly known for its tubular and straight edged shape, similar to that of penne. Similar to penne, this type of pasta will either have a smooth texture or be covered in tiny ridges. Many of the sauces that pair exceptionally well with penne will pair exceptionally well with this type of pasta as well.
8. Rigatoni These large sized and chewy types of pasta are one of the most popular and most renowned types of pasta used in Italy today. These pastas are usually served with many traditional pasta sauces that contain meat or chunky vegetables. Once you try this type of pasta, you will never want to use any other type of pasta again.
9. Cavatappi The name of this pasta literally means “corkscrew.” However, unlike the short type of pasta Fusilli, these pastas are hollow on the inside, though they do resembled a large and long fusilli noodle. These types of pastas are twisted in shape, making them ideal for pasta sauces that are packed full of vegetables or just great tasting hearty pasta sauces.
10. Orecchiette This type of pasta is particularly popular in a region of Italy known as Apulia. There these kinds of pasta are typically served with a sauce that incorporates broccoli. The name of this particular pasta literally means, “little ears” and they are usually crafter by hand using a pasta dough made out of flour and water then pressed in between the thumb and palm of a hand. They are incredibly tasty pastas to enjoy with virtually any kind of pasta sauce, but goes well with pasta made with broccoli.
11. Farfalle The name Farfelle means “bowtie” in Italian and this name is how this pasta got its shape. This type of pasta is perfect for Italian recipes that use chunky meat sauces of chunky vegetable recipes.
12. Conchiglie The name of this type of pasta literally means, “shells.” This type of pasta can be found in a variety of different shapes and sizes. The smallest of this type of pasta is the one that is most commonly found in many popular Italian style soup recipes while the larger types of this kind of pasta can be found when paired with many tasty Italian sauces. One of the best dishes or sauces to pair this pasta shell with is anything that contains butter or cheese. I highly recommend this simply because this type of pasta contains a large surface area that gives the sauce a perfect amount of space to thickly coat the pasta.
13. Ruote This type of pasta is also known as “ruote di carro” which literally means, “cartwheels” in Italian. This type of pasta pairs exceptionally well with any kind of vegetable pasta sauce, meat pasta sauce or any other type of sauce that pairs well with Rigatoni.
14. Lumache While this type of pasta literally name may not sound appealing, I can promise you that is not the case. For this pasta I highly recommend serving it with any type of meat sauce or sauces that contain sausage and cream.
15. Strozzapreti The name of this pasta means literally, “priest stranglers” in Italian. There are many myths and stories surrounding the origin of this pasta with the most popular being that a priest who went through a glutinous episode fell to his own demise as he was eating this pasta. Of course we don’t know how true this story is. What we do know is that this time of pasta is actually pretty harmless. I highly recommend serving this kind of pasta alongside any sauce that is accompanied with fusilli pasta as it will taste just as delicious.
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