Pasta

🇮🇹Piedmont, Italy

Agnolotti del Plin

Tiny pinched Piedmontese pasta parcels stuffed with roasted meats, traditionally served 'al tovagliolo'—dry, folded in a napkin, with just butter and sage or truffle.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Alpine Herdsman's Macaroni

Älplermagronen

Macaroni and diced potato boiled together, layered with melted cheese and cream and topped with fried onions, served with stewed apple sauce.

🇮🇹Rome, Italy

Amatriciana

Amatriciana comes from Amatrice: guanciale, tomato, Pecorino Romano, and a little chili are emulsified into a sauce traditionally served with bucatini. It is also an established Roman pasta tradition.

🇺🇸United States

Amish Pasta Salad

A creamy Pennsylvania Dutch pasta salad with elbow macaroni, hard-boiled eggs, celery, and a sweet-tangy dressing.

🇮🇹Parma, Italy

Anolini

Anolini in brodo

Parma's small filled pasta traditionally served in rich broth for holidays and important family meals.

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

Antiguan Macaroni Pie

Macaroni Pie

Baked macaroni and cheese, the standard side dish of Antigua; elbow macaroni baked with cheese, milk, and eggs; different from the usual macaroni as it is served cold and sliced; a staple of Sunday lunch and local restaurants; the macaroni pie of Antigua; a Caribbean comfort food.

🇬🇷Greece

Astakomakaronada

Αστακομακαρονάδα

Spaghetti tossed in a rich tomato sauce studded with chunks of local lobster, the showpiece dish of island tavernas such as Skyros and the Argolic gulf towns.

🇧🇸Bahamas

Bahamian Baked Macaroni

Macaroni

Macaroni baked with evaporated milk, egg, cheddar and a heavy hand of green pepper and onion until it sets firm enough to slice.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Macaroni Pie

Macaroni pie

Macaroni baked with cheddar, mustard, onion and a whisked egg custard until it sets firm enough to be cut in squares and served as a side.

🇲🇹Malta

Baked Macaroni

Imqarrun il-forn

Macaroni baked in a beef and pork ragù bound with egg, with no pastry case, cut into slabs.

🇺🇸United States

Baked Ziti

An Italian-American pasta casserole of ziti, tomato sauce, ricotta, and mozzarella, baked until bubbly.

🇮🇹Bologna, Italy

Balanzoni

Bolognese Carnival pasta: large tortelloni stuffed with ricotta, spinach, and a sweet filling of mostarda or amaretti, dressed with butter and sage.

🇩🇿Algeria

Berkoukes

بركوكس

Large hand-rolled semolina pellets cooked in a red vegetable and lamb broth into a thick, filling stew.

🇮🇹Venice, Italy

Bigoli in Salsa

Venetian bigoli pasta dressed with a slow-cooked onion and anchovy sauce. Originally a fasting dish, now a Venetian classic.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Bleki

Hand-cut squares of pasta boiled and tossed with cracklings, cottage cheese or cabbage — a farm dish of using up dough scraps.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian Tarhana

Tarhana

A Bosnian dried pasta-like dough of fermented flour, yogurt and sometimes vegetables, broken into small pieces and dried for storage, used in soups and stews.

🇮🇹Sicily, Italy

Busiate

Sicilian spiral pasta, traditionally paired with pesto alla trapanese.

🇦🇹Austria

Cabbage Pasta

Krautfleckerl

Austrian pasta dish with handmade square pasta and caramelized white cabbage, al dente pasta with well-caramelized cabbage and caraway.

🇭🇷Croatia

Cabbage Pasta

Krpice s zeljem

Pasta dish with cabbage, traditional comfort food of continental Croatia, a simple peasant dish with cabbage and pasta.

🇮🇹Rome, Italy

Cacio e Pepe

Cacio e pepe is an established Roman pasta tradition of tonnarelli or spaghetti, Pecorino Romano, and cracked black pepper emulsified with starchy pasta water.

🇦🇷Argentina

Canelones

Argentine cannelloni: fresh pasta tubes filled with ricotta-spinach, ham-and-cheese, or chicken, covered in tuco and béchamel, baked until bubbling. A Sunday classic.

🇦🇩Andorra

Canelons

Canelons a l'andorrana

Baked cannelloni filled with roast meat, the traditional Boxing Day meal in Catalan lands.

🇺🇾Montevideo, Uruguay

Capeletis a la Caruso

Meat-filled cappelletti under a hot cream sauce of onion, ham, mushroom and nutmeg invented in Montevideo in the 1950s.

🇮🇹Italy

Caramelle ricotta

Caramelle ricotta is a named Italian pasta from Italy, pairing its characteristic shape or filling with a defining sauce, broth, or seasoning; the form distinguishes it from a generic version.

🇮🇹Rome, Italy

Carbonara

Carbonara is an established Roman pasta tradition made by emulsifying guanciale, egg, Pecorino Romano, and black pepper with hot pasta; cream is not part of the classic form.

🇦🇹Carinthia, Austria

Carinthian Cheese Dumplings

Kärntner Kasnudeln

Half-moon shaped pasta filled with potato and quark cheese, seasoned with mint and herbs, characteristic pleated edges, a Carinthian specialty, traditional.

🇺🇸United States

Cascatelli

An American pasta shape invented in 2016 with ruffled edges and a big 'sauce catcher' surface.

🇮🇹Lombardy, Italy

Casoncelli alla bergamasca

Lombard stuffed pasta with meat, amaretti and pear in butter-sage.

🇦🇹Tyrol, Austria

Cheese Noodles

Kasspatzln

Cheese-based dish with small spaetzle-like dumplings and strong local cheese, good cheese flavor with proper dumpling texture, a hearty Austrian specialty.

🇩🇪Germany

Cheese Spätzle

Käsespätzle

Simple noodle dish combining spätzle with melted cheese mixture, topped with caramelized onions.

🇺🇸Utica, United States

Chicken Riggies

A Utica, New York pasta dish of rigatoni with chicken in a spicy tomato-cream sauce with peppers and mushrooms.

🇭🇺Hungary

Cottage Cheese Pasta

Túrós csusza

Cottage Cheese Pasta is a pasta with cottage cheese, crispy bacon, and sour cream.

🇺🇸Louisiana, United States

Crawfish Monica

A New Orleans restaurant dish of crawfish tails in a creamy, peppery sauce over pasta.

🇭🇺Hungary

Dios Teszta

Diós tészta

Sweet egg noodles with ground walnuts.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Doria

A Tunisian pasta dish of small noodles cooked with chickpeas, tomatoes, and spices.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Eritrean Lasagna

Lasagna

Eritrean-style lasagna, a legacy of Italian colonization; layered pasta with meat sauce, bechamel, and cheese; sometimes eschewing ricotta; baked in pans for holidays and long weekends; passed down from grandparents who lived through the occupation.