Pasta

🇹🇷Turkey

Erişte

Erişte are hand-cut egg noodles dried on household racks and simmered with walnut and crumbled cheese — an Anatolian pantry staple distinct from mantı.

🇭🇹Haiti

Espageti

Haitian spaghetti, a boldly seasoned breakfast dish of spaghetti in a tomato sauce with smoked herring, hot peppers, and epise (Haitian seasoning blend).

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Espaguetis Dominicano

Espaguetis

Dominican-style spaghetti in a rich, sweetish tomato sauce with salami, ham, and evaporated milk stirred in.

🇵🇪Peru

Fettuccine a la Huancaína

Peruvian pasta coated in huancaína sauce, a modern restaurant standard with Italian and Andean roots.

🇮🇹Rome, Italy

Fettuccine Alfredo

Roman fresh egg fettuccine tossed with butter and Parmigiano, emulsified with pasta water. The original Alfredo in Rome is far simpler than the cream-heavy American version.

🇻🇦Rome, Vatican City

Fettuccine alla Papalina

Fettuccine alla papalina is a Roman restaurant pasta of fresh fettuccine, eggs, butter, cream, Parmesan, prosciutto, and onion, associated with papal requests but not produced in Vatican City.

🇮🇹Umbria, Italy

Fettuccine con la ricotta

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

🇬🇮Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Fideos al Horno

A baked pasta dish similar to Spanish fideos al horno, Maltese imqarrun, or Greek pastitsio; macaroni or penne with bolognese sauce and various ingredients including egg and bacon that vary by family tradition; topped with grated cheese or béchamel that melts during baking.

🇮🇹Calabria, Italy

Fileja con 'nduja

Fileja con 'nduja is a named Italian pasta from Calabria, pairing its characteristic shape or filling with a defining sauce, broth, or seasoning; the form distinguishes it from a generic version.

🇭🇷Istria, Croatia

Fuži

Fuži are Istrian hand-rolled pasta, commonly dressed with a truffle, mushroom or meat sauce. White Istrian truffle is a celebrated pairing, not a separate pasta dish.

🇩🇪Trentino-Alto Adige, Germany

German Spätzle

Spätzle Tirolesi

Spätzle are irregular hand-cut or pressed egg noodles made from flour and eggs, served soft as a Swabian German staple and as Spätzli in Switzerland.

🇬🇷Greece

Giouvetsi

Γιουβέτσι

Greek baked dish of lamb (or beef) with kritharaki (orzo pasta) in a tomato-garlic sauce, baked until tender. A Sunday and festive classic, hearty and savory, served from a clay pot.

🇮🇹Rome, Italy

Gnocchi alla Romana

Not potato gnocchi but semolina disks baked with butter and Parmigiano until golden. A Roman comfort dish, often served on Thursday.

🇮🇹Bologna, Italy

Gramigna alla Salsiccia

Gramigna con salsiccia

A short, curly Bolognese pasta dressed with sausage ragù, a rustic alternative to the city's better-known flat pastas.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Granadír

Boiled potato and pasta fried together with onion and paprika — a barracks dish that stayed on canteen and pub menus.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Macaroni Pie

Macaroni Pie

Baked macaroni and cheese, the standard side dish of Grenada; elbow macaroni baked with cheese, milk, eggs, and sometimes hot pepper; a Caribbean comfort food; served with grilled fish, chicken, or pelau; found at every local restaurant; the macaroni pie of the Spice Isle; a staple side.

🇬🇷Greece

Hilopites

Χυλοπίτες

Greek egg-and-flour pasta, cut into small squares or strips, served with meat sauce or cheese. A home and taverna classic, a rustic and comforting pasta, a national staple, a homemade tradition.

🇱🇾Libya

Imbakbaka

Short pasta cooked directly in a spiced tomato and lamb sauce so the starch thickens the pot, heavy with bzar and dried chilli.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Kaloirka

Καλορκά

Kaloirka are Cypriot ravioli-like pasta parcels filled with minced meat and sealed before boiling.

🇦🇿Ganja, Azerbaijan

Khingal

Xəngəl

Wide squares or sheets of boiled dough layered with fried mince or dried meat and garlic yogurt, and eaten with the fingers in some regions.

🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis

Kittitian Macaroni Pie

Macaroni Pie

Baked macaroni and cheese, a standard side dish of Saint Kitts and Nevis; elbow macaroni baked with cheese, milk, and eggs; a staple of Sunday lunch and local restaurants; a Caribbean comfort food; the macaroni pie of Saint Kitts and Nevis

🇵🇱Poland

Kluski z Makiem

A Polish Christmas dessert of noodles tossed with poppy seeds, honey, and nuts. A Christmas Eve tradition, sweet and nutty, a festive dish, served warm or cold, a national dessert.

🇨🇦Canada

Kraft Dinner

Macaroni and cheese boxed meal, called Canada's national dish, grocery item since 1937.

🇬🇷Greece

Kritharaki

Κριθαράκι

Greek orzo pasta, small rice-shaped grains, used in giouvetsi and baked dishes. A national pasta, served with meat sauces or in soups, a versatile and comforting grain, a taverna staple.

🇭🇷Kvarner, Croatia

Krk Pasta

Šurlice

Specialty pasta from island of Krk coiled on small wooden sticks, called needle macaroni, a local island specialty, traditional.

🇮🇹Bologna, Italy

Lasagne alla Bolognese

Layered fresh egg pasta sheets with ragù bolognese and béchamel, finished with Parmigiano and baked until golden. A Sunday-lunch icon of Emilia-Romagna.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Lebanese Couscous

مغربية

Large hand-rolled semolina pearls steamed and served with chicken, chickpeas and small onions in a caraway-scented broth.

🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Lentils with Spätzle

Linsen mit Spätzle

Traditional Swabian dish with lentils served with spätzle and often sausage or frankfurters.

🇱🇮Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein Cheese Spaetzle

Käsknöpfle

Small egg-flour spaetzle layered with Alpine cheese and fried onions, commonly accompanied by applesauce in Liechtenstein.

🇮🇹Campania, Italy

Linguine allo Scoglio

A seafood pasta of linguine with mixed shellfish—clams, mussels, shrimp, calamari—in a light tomato-garlic-white wine sauce. A coastal Campanian classic.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Lithuanian Dough Squares

Skryliai

Homemade pasta-like dough squares boiled and served with bacon, sour cream, or mushroom sauce.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Lithuanian Potato Dumplings

Kukuliai

Ball-shaped potato dumplings similar to gnocchi, flavored with marjoram, served with bacon-onion mix or sour cream.

🇺🇸United States

Mac and Cheese

Elbow macaroni baked in a rich cheddar cheese sauce with a buttery breadcrumb topping until bubbling and golden.

🇪🇬Egypt

Macarona Bechamel

مكرونة بشاميل

A Egyptian baked pasta with ground beef and creamy bechamel sauce, a home and festive classic

🇱🇾Libya

Macarona Mbukhka

Macarona mboukhka

Pasta steamed over a pot in a couscoussier rather than boiled, then folded through a spiced onion and chickpea sauce.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Macaroni Pie

Macaroni baked with cheese, evaporated milk and egg into a firm block that can be cut into squares.