Short pasta
Rotelle
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Rotelle are wagon-wheel pasta popular with children.
Rotelle means "little wheels" in Italian.
Best sauces: light tomato sauce, soups. 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
- Short
- Origin
- Italy
- Best with
- light tomato sauce, soups
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