Glossary of Pasta Terms

Long flat egg noodles that have been deep-fried in a flattened nest shape and then dried.

A type of flat pasta that differs from regular flour and water pasta in that eggs are added to enrich the dough.

The most common tube pasta shape. It is a narrow tube with a semicircular curved shape.

A medium sized tube pasta similar to rigatoni. It is slightly narrower and the ridges on the surface of elicoidali are slightly curved around the tube, rather than straight as on rigatoni.