Type of Pasta

         Pasta so delicious as the dishes at home, using a simple ingredients and does not take a long time to cook it, Do you agree with me? but do you know? in fact there are so many names customized to the shape of pasta and pasta ingredients are used.
        Far as I know from some of the articles that I read, there are about 650 types of pasta in Italy, and is still going to grow again.
        Because they make new breakthroughs in terms of making pasta. below, may include some type of pasta that is already known and usually cooked as the dish at home.
 
1. Pasta sorted by size, the name of pasta is usually made ​​based on the form of pasta in Italian. such as on below :

Cannelloni
Cannelloni is a pasta like macaroni small. However, the shape cannelloni
resembles a small pipe. Usually served with tomato sauce and then baked.

Cavatelli
Cavatelli is a pasta shaped like small shells. Generally, cavatelli treated with a mixture of vegetables such as broccoli and tomatoes, can also add beans.

 

 Capellini
If you are familiar with the spaghetti, then Capellini is a form of pasta such as spaghetti, but are very thin as hair. Because the texture is very soft, then given the name of the angel hair. Pasta is served with a light sauce like olive oil or cheese.



 

Farfalle
Farfalle has a unique shape like a bow tie in tuxedo male. This paste is used for salad mix. Can also be processed with light sauces such as olive oil, cheese, and butter.


  

Ravioli
Ravioli is a pasta that looks like a pastel. Consists of two sheets of pasta which it can be filled. Its contents can be all kinds, from beef, chicken, mushrooms, cheese, until processed seafood.

 

Lasagna
Lasagna is a pasta shaped sheets which were collated and compiled content. Generally, has a seven-layer lasagna. Lasagna is usually filled with minced beef and mozzarella cheese.

Fettucini
Fettucini pasta which is shaped like a flat noodles, but slightly thicker. Fetuccini The most famous is the fettucini alfredo, fettucini is mixed with the sauce and added the shrimp.

 

Gnocchi
Gnocchi is a pasta made ​​of potato preparations. Boiled potatoes that have been destroyed as a mixer made ​​of flour. Gnocchi are generally served with tomato sauce.

 

Tortelloni
Pasta which is shaped like a dumpling content. Generally, tortelloni filled with ricotta cheese and herbs like spinach. Just like pasta in general, usually presenting tortelloni doused with tomato sauce.

 

Orecchiette
Small pasta shaped like a flat circular disc. Generally, two inches in diameter. Orecchiette is generally combined with vegetable sauce. Can be added to kidney beans and mushrooms.
  




  

Macaroni
Curved tubular pasta with hole in the middle. This is the type of pasta is most familiar to us specially in Indonesia, we usually find in the dish can be made ​​into soup or macaroni schootel.




  

Fusilli
Sometimes we called it with curly macaroni. Short and spiral shape. Usually treated with a cream sauce mixed with tomatoes and peas.



 

Pizzoccheri
This long buckwheat noodles are popular in northern Italy. Special pasta made ​​from buckwheat flour, wheat is also a type of corn called Saracen ('Grano Saraceno' in Italian). has a rough texture of pasta wheat is almost absent from Italian cuisine, but a perfect dish when mixed with potato, cabbage, butter, and cheese Valtellina Casera (also original Valtellina) to create a very unique dish.

 

Orzo pasta is a type of pasta made ​​in the form of a grain of rice.
orzo is the Italian word for "barley," as a reference to the size and shape of the pasta. You can also see the orzo called kritharaki, manestra, rosa marina, reiskornpasta, or pasta Pion Gallo.
orzo can be cooked as soup, baked in a casserole as well, such as peppers and squash. 






 2. Pasta also be sorted by color and flavor variants, the most famous is :

• black pasta (pasta Nera) colored with squid or cuttlefish ink, which turn black.
• green pasta (pasta verde) colored with spinach
• purple pasta (pasta violin) colored with tomatoes or a bit
• red pasta (pasta Rossa) colored with carrot
• pastaoranye (pasta arancione) colored with different varieties of squash and pumpkin

3. Non-wheat pasta
Pastes are specially created for those who are allergic to gluten, which material is in the flour, buckwheat pasta which is gluten-free pasta.

4. Pasta of healthy
pasta which is made from whole grains that are rich in fiber and contain lots of vitamins and minerals which the body needs.

5. Pasta that enriched
pasta usually served with additional cuts of meat and mozzarella cheese, many who enriched. how ? in the batter add cheese, herb, or classical italian material other. in Italy is known there Agnolotti pasta, pasta is enriched with ingredient which are called Mezzaluna.