rotini
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3.5
A short spiral pasta that holds sauce well and people put in salads and pasta dishes
- noun
- /roʊˈtiːni/
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rotini
- You can also use rotini or fusilli in this recipe.
- rotini pasta
- uncooked rotini
- rotini or fusilli
Examples
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" Your orzo and your rotini...
Fiction book (1995) -
Dash, some chickpea rotini, vegetable broth, lemons, avocado, lime green grapes.
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Prepare 8 oz whole wheat rotini according to package directions.
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Ms. Cooper ladles the sauce over a bin of rotini noodles and mixes it all together.
Synonyms
fusilli
vsrotini
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2.9
A short pasta shaped like a spiral that holds sauce well
is a corkscrew spiral rather than a simple twist
How Curly
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rotini comes from Italian: rot- means 'turn' and -ini means 'small', and the same root appears in English rotate. So rotini means 'little twists', which fits this short, corkscrew-shaped pasta.