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| Alternative names | Mafalde, reginette |
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| Type | Pasta |
| Place of origin | Italy |
Mafaldine, also known as reginette (Italian for 'little queens') or simply mafalde, is a type of ribbon-shaped pasta.
It comes from the Naples area, where they were once called fettuccelle ricce. [1] Mafaldine were named in honor of the birth of Princess Mafalda of Savoy (thus the alternative name "little queens"). [2]
Mafaldine is prepared similarly to other ribbon-based pasta such as linguine and fettuccine. It is flat and wide, usually about 1 cm (½ inch) in width, with wavy edges on both sides with a curl at the ends that remains well defined even after cooking. [3]
Tripoline (Italian: [tripoˈliːne] ) is a type of ribbon pasta, similar to mafaldine. It is a thick ribbon ridged on one side, [4] and is often found in baked pasta dishes.
It is believed that this pasta shape originated in the Campania region. [5]
In the 1930s, Fascist Italy celebrated its colonial empire by creating new forms of pasta reminiscent of its African possessions: tripoline (Tripoli), bengazine (Benghazi), assabesi (Assab) and abissine (Abyssinia).
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