All you wanted to know about Pasta - made this for my ESL class

1. Pasta!!! All you wanted to know about pasta!

2. • How much do you like pasta?
• Do you know how pasta is made?
• What are your favourite kinds of pasta?
• How many different types of pasta do you know of?
• How often do you eat pasta?
• What do you think of pasta that comes in cans?
• What kind of pasta salad do you make/eat?
• Are you good at cooking pasta dishes?
• Why do you think there are so many shapes of pasta?

5. Fusilli
Fusilli is one of the most popular pastas
that comes in different colours including
green and red. It's a spiral shaped pasta.
The green colour is given by spinach
juice and red colour is obtained through
beetroot juice. Fusilli is consumed in
various forms that ranges from regular
pasta dish to salads and soups.

6. Spaghetti
Spaghetti is very popular in North America
and Europe. It is thin, long and cylindrical in
shape and is made of semolina and water.
The most common spaghetti preparation is
served with tomato sauce. Spaghetti with
meat balls and Bolognese sauce are some
other common recipes that are widely
consumed all over the world.

7. Farfalle (Bow-tie
pasta)
Farfalle is commonly known as
bow-tie pasta. Farfalle comes in
various shapes and sizes and go
well with various pasta sauces and
tomatoes. The name is derived
from the Italian word 'Farfalla', that
means butterfly.

8. Rotini
Rotini is a helix shaped pasta that closely
resembles Fusilli. Rotini's helix structure
is comparatively much tightly packed and
it is shorter in length. It is commonly used
in salads combined with different types of
pasta sauces. Due to its tight helix
structure, Rotini binds more sauce with it
adding more flavour to the dish.

9. Macaroni
Macaroni is perhaps the most
popular pasta in various parts of the
world. It's hollow in shape and is
slightly bent at the ends.
Traditionally, macaroni is devoid of
any eggs and is consumed with
almost anything. It goes very well
with melted cheese and pasta sauce.

10. Manicotti
Manicotti is ribbed tube shaped pasta
that is relatively large than other types
of pasta. Due to large hollow space in
between, it is favourite among chefs to
serve with different kinds of stuffing.
These stuffings may include seafood,
salads, red meat or combination of
pasta sauce and cheese.

11. Vermicelli
Vermicelli is a long, thin and worm shaped
pasta that is very popular in some parts of
Asia and the Middle-East. It is made of
wheat as well as rice flour. Chinese rice
noodles is a variant of vermicelli. In India, it
is mostly consumed as a sweet dish or as a
part of a dessert. Chinese consume it as
rice noodles with soup and with green
onions.

12. Lasagna
Lasagne is quite popular in Italy and North
America. It comes in a form of sheets of
various sizes with some variants having
ripples on the sheet. In North America, it is
commonly served as layers of pasta sheets,
cheese and pasta sauce and may include
layers of meat or seafood. Lasagne is
generally served in baked form mixed with
variety of ingredients to give it a unique taste.

13. Rigatoni
Rigatoni is a hollow pasta that is
normally cooked with cheese
dipping and herbs. Rigatoni also
goes well with sausages and meat
preparations. It is mostly consumed
in Europe and some parts of North
America.

14. Fettucini
This long pasta is famous in Italian
restaurants and is easily prepared at
home. It’s great when paired with
Alfredo sauce and chicken or
seafood, but also tastes great with
butter sauces. Thin sauces go well
with this because it’s long and will
soak in with the flavours.

15. Linguini
Linguine is like spaghetti, but it’s
longer and narrower in
appearance. It’s great with seafood
and clam sauce, but it’s also
excellent with a red sauce, like
arrabiatta.

16. Penne
Penne is a pasta in the form of
short wide tubes.

17. Tortellini
Tortellini is one of the most fun pastas
because it comes in a lot of flavours
(spinach, egg, tomato) and with a lot of
different fillings. It’s a circular shape
that generally has cheese or meat (or
a combination of both) inside of it. It’s
great with broth, but also tastes nice
with a butter or oil based sauce.

18. Ravioli
Ravioli are a type of dumpling
composed of a filling sealed
between two layers of thin pasta
dough. Usually served either in
broth or with a pasta sauce.

19. Pasta Sauces
• Marinara — Tomato sauce that has been ‘upped’ in flavour with olive oil, garlic
and herbs
• Alfredo-- butter, cream and freshly grated cheese
• Bolognese/Ragu—rich meat sauce flavoured with chicken livers, wine,
vegetables and nutmeg. Served with butter and grated cheese; sometimes
cream is added to the sauce.
• Arrabbiata — “angry” sauce. A spicy sauce made from garlic, tomatoes and red
chilli peppers
• Pesto - thick sauce made with basil, garlic and pine nuts
• Aglio e olio-- garlic, olive oil and parsley
• Rose - a mix of cream and tomato based sauces into one

22. Al Dente
In contemporary Italian cooking,
the term identifies the ideal
consistency for pasta. When
cooking commercial pasta, the al
dente phase occurs right after the
white of the pasta centre
disappears

29. What pasta goes
with what sauce?

30. What would you order
on Pasta Tuesday?
Go to “MENU”
Choose “Pasta”
Read and make a selection
Let a partner know what you chose
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