All pasta shapes - soup
We listed all pasta’s shapes and grouped them into 6 types: long & medium, short-cut, filled, gnocchi, stretched and for soup. All soup shapes of pasta are listed here.
| Type | Description | Synonyms |
|---|---|---|
| Acini di pepe | Bead-like pasta | |
| Anelli | Small rings of pasta (not to be confused with Calamaretti) | Aneletti, anidduzzi, cerchionetti, taraduzzi[52] |
| Anellini | Smaller version of anelli | Anelline[120] |
| Conchigliette | Small shell-shaped pasta | |
| Corallini | Small short tubes of pasta | |
| Ditali | Short tubes whose diameter is roughly the same as their length. Can be lisci or rigati[121] | Ditalini, tubetti, tubettini, gnocchetti di ziti, ditaletti, coralli; denti di vecchia, denti di cavallo, ganghi di vecchia, magghietti (Apulia and Sicily)[121] |
| Egg barley | ||
| Farfalline | Small bow tie-shaped pasta | |
| Fideos[123] | Pasta prepared with eggs, flour and water.[123] | |
| Filini | Smaller version of fideos, about 12–15 mm long before cooking | |
| Fregula | Bead-like pasta from Sardinia. Slightly toasted due to drying process.[124] | Fregola, freula, fregua |
| Funghini | Small mushroom-shaped pasta | |
| Gramigne | Short curled lengths of pasta. Spaccatelle are larger.[126] | Crestine, margherite lisce, fagioletti, zitellini, tubettini lunghi,[9] gramignoni, spaccatelle[127] |
| Grattini | Small granular, irregular shaped pasta (smaller version then Grattoni) | |
| Grattoni | Large granular, irregular shaped pasta | |
| Midolline | Flat teardrop shaped pasta (similar to Orzo but wider) | |
| Occhi di pernice | Very small rings of pasta | |
| Orzo | Rice shaped pasta.[27] Risoni are slightly bigger.[129] | Puntine, punte d'ago, armelline, semi d'orzo, semi d'avena, semi di riso, occhi di giudeo, armellette, puntalette, semi di cicoria, cicorietta, risetto, chicchi di riso, semini, avena, avena grande, cicorie, semi di melone, semi di mela, midolline, semoni, risone, risoni[9] riso[129] |
| Pastina | Although pastina is the name for an entire family of miniature pasta shapes, it is also used to describe the most basic one in this family – small spheres, smaller than acini di pepe | |
| Piombi | Spheres slightly larger than acini di pepe | Pearl pasta |
| Ptitim | Rice grains, spheres or other forms | Israeli couscous, Jerusalem couscous, giant couscous, pearl couscous[130] |
| Puntine | Smaller version of Risi | |
| Quadrettini | Small flat squares of pasta | Quadrucci, quadratini, quadretti, lucciole,[9] quadrellini, quadrotti; quaternei (Emilia-Romagna); squadrucchetti (Umbria); ciciarchiola/cicerchiole (depending on size; Lazio).[131] |
| Sorprese | Small bell shaped pasta with a ruffled edge and a crease on one side. Can be ridged or smooth (lisce) | |
| Stelle | Small star-shaped pasta. | anellini, avermarie, astri, fiori di sambuco, lentine, puntine, semini, stellettine, stellette[9][132] |
| Stortini | Smaller version of elbow macaroni | |
| Tripolini | In larger varieties these are sometimes called farfalle tonde.[133] Small bow tie-shaped pasta with rounded edges. | Signorine,[9] canestri, canestrini, farfallini, galani, nastrini, nodini, stricchetti[133] |
| Alphabet pasta | Pasta that has been mechanically cut or pressed into the letters of the alphabet | Alfabeto[134] |
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