Twisted pasta
Busiate
Quick answer
Busiate are long corkscrews wrapped around a thin rod.
Busiate means "from busa, a reed" in Italian.
Best sauces: pesto alla trapanese. Match the shape to the sauce — long thin pasta for oil and light sauces, tubes and ridges for chunky or meaty sauces, flat egg ribbons for rich ragù and butter.
- Type
- Twisted
- Origin
- Sicily (Trapani)
- Best with
- pesto alla trapanese
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