What is Fettuccine Pasta?
Fettuccine pasta is a popular Italian pasta shape which can be found all over the world in markets and restaurants. The long ribbons of pasta are suitable for a range of sauces, although they are most famously used in fettuccine Alfredo. In addition to being available fresh and dried in stores, fettuccine pasta can also easily be made at home. A pasta machine will greatly simplify this task, although it is possible to roll the dough out by hand. In Italian, fettuccine means “little ribbons,” and the pasta does indeed look like a pile of ribbons on the plate. The pasta may also be spelled fettuccini, depending on the producer, and it is closely related to tagliatelle, another form of ribbon pasta. Traditional fettuccine pasta comes in thick ribbons which are robust enough to hold light to medium sauces, especially tomato and cream sauces by convention. Chunky sauces may not fare as well, since the chunks tend to settle to the bottom of the dish unless they can be readily picked up with
