Rotelle

rotini = rotelle = spirals = twists Notes: These pasta shapes look like short springs made from spaghetti. They're good with chunky sauces, or in pasta salads. Substitutes: fusilli OR ruote OR gemelli OR torchio OR penne ...

Some common shapes include macaroni, small pasta tubes which are suited to baking and cream sauces, farfalle, or bow ties, rotini, or twisted noodles, rotelle, or wagon wheels, and penne, larger tube shaped pasta.

Ruote are shapes of pasta that resemble wheels. They are also known as rotelle.
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For most pasta salads, you'll want a bite-sized pasta. Popular favorites are rotini or fusilli (spirals), farfalle (bow tie) and conchiglie (shells). You can also use ziti (short tubes) or rotelle (wagon wheels).

Rotelle-wheels
Spaghetti-the best known pasta that can be fine, medium or thick rods
Strozzapreti-double twisted strands known as 'priest strangler'
Tagliarini-flat, thin, ribbons
Tagliatelle-broad, flat, ribbons ...

Rotelle Wheel-shaped, cork-screwed pasta that most sauces cling to easily Rotini Wheel-shaped, cork-screwed pasta that most sauces cling to easily Saffron A sharp, orange-red color spice made from the dry stigmata of the flower of the crocus plant.

See also: Pasta, Fusilli, Sauce, Cooking, Rotini