Long pasta
Linguine
Quick answer
Linguine are flat, narrow long pasta, slightly wider than spaghetti.
Linguine means "little tongues" in Italian.
Best sauces: seafood, clam sauce, pesto. 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
- Long
- Origin
- Liguria / Campania
- Best with
- seafood, clam sauce, pesto
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