Types Of Pasta

Pasta is the term used to describe Italian variants of noodles, made from dough of flour and water, with or without eggs. It is boiled before consumption and is usually prepared with various sauces. Pasta is basically available in two basic styles i.e. dried and fresh. Within these two styles, there are many types of the Italian food. One of the most popular Italian dishes, consumed throughout the world, pasta can be divided into different types, on the basis of its shape. In fact, it is believed that there are as many as 350 different shapes, and thus types, of pasta. In the following lines, we have mentioned the basic categories of pasta and also provided a list of the most famous Italian pasta types.

 

 

The long form pasta is thin, long and cylindrical in shape, something that you can twist around your fork. Available in variety of widths, right from the thinnest angel hair to the plumpest bucatin, it can be round or flat, solid or hollow. Ribbon pasta, a sub-category of long form pasta, can be distinguished by flat cuts

 

As opposed to strand pasta, short form pasta is small in size. It can be sub-categorized into tubular pasta, shaped pasta and stuffed pasta. Tubular pasta can be of any size, being or ridged, straight-cut or diagonally cut. The twisted or curled varieties of pasta are included in shaped pasta. Stuffed pasta, as the name suggests, is hollow and has stuffing inside.

 

Different Types of Pasta