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Kristin Teig. A modest amount of Calabrian chile paste and chopped sun-dried tomatoes deliver bold, zesty flavor in this easy weeknight-friendly pasta dish.
Duros with chili and lemon flavoring Round flour duros puff up when fried.. Duros de harina (also known as pasta para duros, duritos, durros, pasta para durito, chicharrones, churritos, Mexican wagon wheels or pin wheels) are a popular Mexican snack food made of puffed wheat, often flavored with chili and lemon.
Penne alla vodka. The exact origins of penne alla vodka are unclear, and to some extent the subject of urban legend and folklore.The first use of vodka in a pasta dish recorded in a cookbook is attested to 1974, when the Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi published the cookbook L'Abbuffone (meaning 'the bouffe-men', named after Tognazzi's movie La Grande Bouffe), which included his recipe of pasta all ...
Penne are one of the few pasta shapes with a certain date of birth: in 1865, Giovanni Battista Capurro, a pasta maker from San Martino d'Albaro , obtained a patent for a diagonal cutting machine. His invention cut the fresh pasta into a pen shape without crushing it, in a size varying between 3 cm (1 in) mezze penne (lit.
Spaghetti and meatballs is an Italian-American pasta dish consisting of spaghetti, tomato sauce, and meatballs. [1] Originally inspired by similar dishes from southern Italy, the modern version of spaghetti and meatballs was developed by Italian immigrants in New York City.
Pasta alla Norma (Italian: [ˈpasta alla ˈnɔrma]), earlier called pasta con le melanzane (lit. ' pasta with eggplant '), [1] [2] is a pasta dish made from eggplant. It is typical of Sicilian cuisine, [3] from Catania in particular. [4] It is made of penne or other pasta with tomato sauce, covered with slices of fried eggplant and served with ...
Various recipes in Italian cookbooks dating back to the 19th century describe pasta sauces very similar to a modern puttanesca under different names. One of the earliest dates from 1844, when Ippolito Cavalcanti, in his Cucina teorico-pratica, included a recipe from popular Neapolitan cuisine, calling it vermicelli all'oglio con olive capperi ed alici salse. [7]
[4] [3] Rigatoncini are a smaller version, close to the size of penne. Their name takes on the diminutive suffix -ino (pluralized -ini), denoting their relative size. Rigatoni is a particular favourite pasta shape in the south of Italy, especially in Sicily. Its eponymous ridges make better adhesive surfaces for sauces and grated cheese than ...