Types of pasta

There are many different types of pasta, a staple dish of Italian cuisine.

Agnolotti - This is a stuffed pasta that’s typically a half-circular or circular shape and stuffed with meat.

Bigoli– This is a whole wheat or buckwheat pasta that’s essentially like thick spaghetti, and found mainly in the Veneto region.

Bucatini– This is also basically exactly like spaghetti in shape, except that it’s hollow in the middle. The name means “little hole.”

Cannelloni – These are large tubes that can be hand- or machine-made and be smooth or ridged, and are usually filled with meat before being covered in a meat sauce and then baked.

Cavatappi– This name means “corkscrews,” and it’s perfectly indicative of the shape. They’re hollow like maccheroni, but twisted.