Long pasta
Spaghetti alla Chitarra
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Spaghetti alla chitarra is a square-edged egg pasta cut on a wire frame called a chitarra.
Spaghetti alla Chitarra means "guitar spaghetti" in Italian.
Best sauces: lamb ragù, tomato with pallottine meatballs. 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
- Abruzzo
- Best with
- lamb ragù, tomato with pallottine meatballs
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