Hollow pasta shapes
A hollow shape carries sauce inside as well as outside. The tubes are the obvious members, but bucatini and perciatelli are strands with a hole down the middle, and cavatappi is a hollow spiral.
53 shapes. Full profiles first, then the rest A to Z.
Bucatini
Long strands · Lazio
thick round strand with a fine bore through the centre. cooks in 9 to 12 min
Busiate
Hand-formed · Sicily
long strip wound around a reed into a loose coil. cooks in 8 to 12 min
Calamarata
Tubes · Campania
wide short smooth ring, the shape of a squid ring. cooks in 14 to 16 min
Candele
Tubes · Campania
very long smooth tube, broken by hand before cooking. cooks in 13 to 17 min
Cannelloni
Tubes · Campania
large smooth tube for stuffing, or a rolled sheet. cooks in 20 to 30 min
Cavatappi
Tubes · All of Italy
hollow ridged tube wound into a corkscrew. cooks in 8 to 10 min
Chifferi
Tubes · All of Italy
short curved elbow tube, usually ridged. cooks in 8 to 10 min
Creste di gallo
Short shapes · All of Italy
curved ridged tube with a ruffled crest along the outer edge. cooks in 10 to 12 min
Ditali
Tubes · Campania
short straight tube, as long as it is wide. cooks in 8 to 11 min
Ditalini
Pastina · Campania
tiny straight tube, the soup ditali. cooks in 7 to 10 min
Fileja
Hand-formed · Calabria
strip wound around a thin rod into a short irregular spiral. cooks in 8 to 12 min
Fusilli lunghi
Long strands · Campania
long hollow strand twisted into a loose spiral. cooks in 10 to 13 min
Garganelli
Tubes · Emilia-Romagna
egg-pasta square rolled on a comb into a ridged quill. cooks in 3 to 5 min
Gramigna
Short shapes · Emilia-Romagna
short thin hollow curl, like a blade of couch grass. cooks in 7 to 10 min
Lumache
Tubes · All of Italy
snail-shell tube, curved and pinched at one end. cooks in 10 to 13 min
Macaroni
Tubes · Campania
short narrow smooth tube, straight or curved into an elbow. cooks in 7 to 10 min
Maccheroni al ferretto
Hand-formed · Calabria
strip of dough rolled around a thin iron rod into a long hollow tube. cooks in 8 to 12 min
Manicotti
Tubes · United States
large ridged tube for stuffing, the American cannelloni. cooks in 20 to 30 min
Mezze maniche
Tubes · All of Italy
short wide ridged tube, half a rigatoni. cooks in 11 to 13 min
Mezzi rigatoni
Tubes · All of Italy
half-length rigatoni. cooks in 11 to 13 min
Mostaccioli
Tubes · United States
smooth diagonal-cut tube, the American penne lisce. cooks in 10 to 12 min
Occhi di lupo
Tubes · Campania
short wide ridged tube, cut straight. cooks in 11 to 13 min
Paccheri
Tubes · Campania
very wide smooth tube, collapses flat when cooked. cooks in 14 to 18 min
Penne
Tubes · Liguria
medium tube cut on the diagonal, ridged (rigate) or smooth (lisce). cooks in 10 to 12 min
Penne lisce
Tubes · Liguria
smooth diagonal-cut medium tube. cooks in 10 to 12 min
Pennette
Tubes · All of Italy
small penne, ridged, about 3.5 cm. cooks in 8 to 11 min
Pennoni
Tubes · All of Italy
large penne, ridged, 1.5 cm across. cooks in 12 to 14 min
Perciatelli
Long strands · Campania
thick hollow strand, the Neapolitan bucatini. cooks in 10 to 13 min
Pipe rigate
Tubes · All of Italy
curved ridged tube pinched at one end, like a snail shell. cooks in 10 to 12 min
Rigatoni
Tubes · Lazio
wide ridged tube cut straight across. cooks in 12 to 14 min
Sedani
Tubes · All of Italy
slightly curved narrow ridged tube. cooks in 10 to 12 min
Tortiglioni
Tubes · Campania
medium tube with ridges that spiral around it. cooks in 12 to 14 min
Tubetti
Tubes · Campania
small straight tube, the soup tube of Naples. cooks in 8 to 10 min
Ziti
Tubes · Campania
smooth medium tube, cut straight; sold long or cut. cooks in 11 to 14 min
Caccavelle
Stuffed · Campania
Large bowl-like pasta intended for stuffing. cooks in 5 min
Castellane
Short shapes · Emilia-Romagna
Shell pasta coiled into a conical shape. cooks in 9 min
Coralli
Pastina
Ridged tubes. cooks in 8 min
Corallini
Pastina
Small short tubes of pasta. cooks in 9 min
Fagioloni
Tubes
Short narrow tube
Festoni
Short shapes
Thick ruffled helices. cooks in 9 min
Fusi
Hand-formed · Friuli-Venezia Giulia
type of pasta
ingannapreti
Hand-formed · Emilia-Romagna
Maccheroncelli
Tubes
Hollow tube-shaped pasta that is slightly smaller than a pencil in thickness. cooks in 11 min
Mezzani
Tubes · Campania
Short curved tube. cooks in 7 min
Mezzi bombardoni
Tubes
Wide short tubes. cooks in 12 min
Occhi di passero
Pastina
Thick rings
Occhi di pernice
Pastina
Very small rings of pasta. cooks in 6 min
Pasta al ceppo
Short shapes · Abruzzo
Sheet pasta that is similar in shape to a cinnamon stick. cooks in 10 min
Riccioli
Short shapes
Hollow cut with cylindrical ridges. cooks in 7 min
Stortini
Pastina
Smaller version of elbow macaroni. cooks in 5 min
Trenne
Tubes · Abruzzo
Penne shaped as a triangle. cooks in 10 min
Tuffoli
Tubes
Ridged rigatoni. cooks in 10 to 12 min
Tufoli
Tubes
A pasta shell large enough for stuffing (as with meat or cheese). From a southern Italian dialect, plural of tufolo (tube), modification of
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