Crossword clues for rigatoni
rigatoni
- Pasta cook visiting Italy to adopt cooking
- Pasta - I got rain
- In the US, it's OK to leave husband for one primarily interested in Italian food
- Tube-shaped pasta
- Pasta type
- Trattoria dish
- Ziti alternative
- Shells alternative
- Ristorante order
- Pasta order
- Trattoria tubes
- Alternative to bow ties
- Tubes that go into the mouth
- Sicilian cuisine staple
- Ribbed pasta tubes
- Ribbed pasta
- Pasta with ribs
- Pasta in tubular form
- Pasta — I got rain (anag)
- ''Little stripes''
- Tubular pasta
- Trattoria fare
- Ristorante offering
- Pasta choice
- Pasta tubes
- Trattoria offering
- Short, ribbed pasta
- Tubes on the table
- Pasta variety
- It comes in tubes
- Tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces
- Type of pasta
- Cook given a so-called award for pasta
- European capital with endless drink and pasta
- Equipment: a large amount I needed for pasta
- Engineer into a plastic, tubular dish
- One after bananas or giant pasta shapes
- Short fluted tubes of pasta
- Paste: fix a large plateful, last of spaghetti
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"short, hollow, fluted tubes of pasta," 1930, from Italian rigatooni, plural of rigato, past participle of rigare "to draw a line, to make fluting," from riga "line; something cut out," from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *rigon- (see row (n.1)), from PIE *rei- "to scratch, tear, cut" (see riparian).
Wiktionary
n. a ribbed tubular form of pasta, larger than penne but with square-cut ends, often slightly curved
WordNet
n. tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces
Wikipedia
Rigatoni are a form of tube-shaped pasta of varying lengths and diameters. They are larger than penne and ziti, and sometimes slightly curved, though nowhere near as curved as elbow macaroni. Rigatoni characteristically have ridges down their length, sometimes spiraling around the tube. And unlike penne, rigatoni's ends are cut square ( perpendicular) to the tube walls instead of diagonally.
The word rigatoni comes from the Italian word rigato (rigatone being the augmentative and rigatoni the plural form), which means "ridged" or "lined", and is associated with the cuisine of southern and central Italy. Rigatoncini are a smaller version, close to the size of penne. Their name takes on the diminutive suffix -ino (pluralized -ini) denoting their relative size.
Rigatoni is a particular favorite pasta shape in the south of Italy, especially in Sicily. Its namesake ridges make better adhesive surfaces for sauces and grated cheese than smooth-sided pasta like ziti.
Usage examples of "rigatoni".
And placing a roll on each plate next to the steaming rigatoni was easy enough.
Empty bowls, broken dishes, and dirty Tupperware containers were scattered on the floor, as were a few rigatoni red with tomato sauce, half of a meatball, eggshells, a chunk of pie crust, and other bits of food.
She ate a mound of rigatoni as if she had an appetite, which was something Hatch could not manage, and she filled his frequent worried silences with natural-sounding patter, doing her best to preserve the feeling of an ordinary night at home.
I had to spending the rest of the summer stirring steaming platters of rigatoni bolognese.
I let her get rigatoni bolog-nese, even though the sausage in the sauce is probably steeped in nitrates that could harm a developing foetus.
Bella Sorella makes one long for nothing so much as a nice plate of rigatoni from the Olive Garden.
Andrea to be swiftly boiled, blanched, and assembled later: fresh rigatoni, Swiss chard, toasted crumbs, anchovies, newly grated Parmesan.
Hours later she woke up ravenous, found some rigatoni, boiled it and added canned sauce, then wolfed down several bites standing at the counter like a pathetic, lonely person.