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| Alternative names | Maccheroni (sg.: maccherone) | ||||||
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| Type | Pasta | ||||||
| Place of origin | Italy[1] | ||||||
| Main ingredients | Durum wheat | ||||||
| 350.5 kcal (1467 kJ) | |||||||
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Macaroni (/ˌmækəˈroʊni/, Italian: maccheroni) is pasta shaped like narrow tubes.[2] Made with durum wheat, macaroni is commonly cut in short lengths; curved macaroni may be referred to as elbow macaroni. Some home machines can make macaroni shapes but, like most pasta, macaroni is usually made commercially by large-scale extrusion. The curved shape is created by different speeds of extrusion on opposite sides of the pasta tube as it comes out of the machine.
The word macaroni is often used synonymously with elbow-shaped macaroni, as it is the variety most often used in macaroni and cheese recipes.[3] In Italy and other countries, the noun maccheroni can refer to straight, tubular, square-ended pasta corta (lit. 'short pasta') or to long pasta dishes, as in maccheroni alla chitarra and frittata di maccheroni, which are prepared with long pasta such as spaghetti. In the United States, federal regulations define three different shapes of dried pasta, such as spaghetti, as a "macaroni product".[4]
- ^ Maccheroni47473hb, History of Maccheroni Archived 2019-06-02 at the Wayback Machine (it)
- ^ Oxford Dictionary, Macaroni
- ^ "Pasta Shapes". Archived from the original on 2023-08-14. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
- ^ "U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21 Section 139.110: "Macaroni Products."". Archived from the original on 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2021-12-02.