Decorative Shapes
Decorative pasta shapes include playful forms such as radiatori, ruote and cavatappi.
- Shape
- Fins, wheels and curls
- Look for
- Radiatori, ruote, cavatappi
Pasta salad with recognizable shapes
Compare De Cecco’s radiatori with wavy fins, its wheel-shaped Rotelle with spokes, and cavatappi with hollow corkscrew curls. Try all three in pasta salads when you want the shapes to remain part of the dish’s visual character.
Worth knowing next
Radiatori
Compare Radiatori: cylinders with wavy fins, with dense sauces or pasta salad as a starting point.
Ruote
Compare Ruote: wheels with spokes, with tomato sauce, minestrone or pasta salad as a starting point.
Cavatappi
Compare Cavatappi: hollow corkscrew curls, with dense sauces or pasta salad as a starting point.
