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Fettuccine [a] [b] is a type of pasta popular in Roman cuisine. It is descended from the extremely thin capelli d'angelo of the Renaissance , [ 2 ] but is a flat, thick pasta traditionally made of egg and flour (usually one egg for every 100 grams or 3.5 ounces of flour).
In Italy, the combination of pasta with butter and cheese dates to at least the 15th century, when it was mentioned by Martino da Como, a northern Italian cook active in Rome; [13] this recipe for "Roman macaroni" (Italian: maccaroni romaneschi) calls for cooking pasta in broth or water and adding butter, "good cheese" (the variety is not specified) and "sweet spices".
A rolled pasta with filling; cooked roll is normally sliced, covered in sauce and broiled in the oven [155] "Stuffed roll" [155] Rotoli imbotito; strudel (Trentino-Alto Adige); pasta al sacco [155] Sacchettoni: Round, similar to fagottini, but also may use ravioli stuffing. A small square of pasta brought around the stuffing and twisted.
A dish of spaghetti alla chitarra, a long egg pasta with a square cross-section (about 2–3 mm thick), whose name comes from the tool (the so-called chitarra, literally "guitar") this pasta is produced with, a tool which gives spaghetti its name, shape and a porous texture that allows pasta sauce to adhere well. The chitarra is a frame with a ...
Di Lelio invented fettuccine al triplo burro [5] (later named "fettuccine all'Alfredo" or "fettuccine Alfredo") in 1908, while running his oil and wine shop, in an effort to entice his wife, Ines, to eat after giving birth to their first child Armando. Di Lelio added extra butter or triplo burro to the fettuccine when mixing it together for his ...
Pasta is believed to have developed independently in Italy and is a staple food of Italian cuisine, [1] [2] with evidence of Etruscans making pasta as early as 400 BCE in Italy. [3] [4] Pastas are divided into two broad categories: dried (Italian: pasta secca) and fresh (Italian: pasta fresca).
The dish under its current name first appears in gastronomic literature in the 1960s. The earliest known mention of pasta alla puttanesca is in Raffaele La Capria's Ferito a morte (Mortal Wound), a 1961 Italian novel which mentions "spaghetti alla puttanesca come li fanno a Siracusa" (lit. ' spaghetti alla puttanesca as they make it in Syracuse ...
Pages in category "Italian pasta dishes" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Agnolotti;