Pasta is a very easy to cook healthy Mediterranean diet. It is of four broad types: tubular, ribbon, strand and stuffed. Let's take a deeper look at them and what makes the differences.
Tubular are long and elongated pasta that take the form of tubes through which the sauce can penetrate through. They are straw-shaped pasta.
1. Macaroni is the famous tube shaped pasta that is curved like a shell. The sauce oozes through the holes.
2. Penne is another famous and trending pasta in tubes. These are straight and elongated short tubes.
3. Cannelloni are bigger tubes that are stuffed and topped with sauce and baked to serve.
4. Rigatoni is a tubular pasta but much bigger than penne and comes in a wide range of size.
5. Bucatini is another tubular pasta that are as long as spaghetti but with a hole in the center like a straw.
6. Manicotti are much rigid bigger tubes like cannelloni that can be stuffed and served with a pasta sauce.
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Ribbon pasta are long stacks of slender pasta flat bread-like sticks. They do not have holes but they come in a wide variety.
1. Lasagne are getting very common these days. These pasta sheets are flat and are layered with topping and sauce alternating with each other in layers, baked and served.
2. Fettucine are long flat strands of pasta. They are much like spaghetti but are flatter.
3. Tagliatelle are balls of flat strands of pasta.
4. Linguine is 4 mm wide and elliptical type of pasta.
5. They are broad and flat pasta noodles.
6. Mafaldine are twisted flat pasta sticks.
The idea of making ribbon pasta varieties is that the flat strands size and shape blends with the sauce and the toppings in a different manner thereby has a difference in the taste.
Strands are pasta that are like ribbon pasta but are much thinner and longer. These pasta are faster to cook many times merely sauting and mixing with the sauce itself is good enough.
1. Spaghetti is a very famous italian pasta that are slender and long sticks. They are little chewy strands.
2. Vermicelli are very thin and small strands of pasta that are packed as a mesh or broken pieces.
Stuffed pasta are some of the most delicacy. It is very tasty as the pasta stuffing also gets cooked. The stuffing is packed within the dough, dried and stored.
1. Ravioli are thin dough filling pasta stuffed with spinach, ricotta and spices.
2. Tortelloni are shaped differently and the stuffing dough is a little thicker with spinach and ricotta cheese as stuffing.
3. Agnolotti pasta are stuffed dough with roasted meat and vegetables.
Just get wired to creativity and make your own pasta bowl. Its the easiest and tastiest dish to be made.
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