Fusilli are long, thick, corkscrew shaped pasta. The word fusilli presumably comes from fusile, archaic or dialectal word for "rifle" (fucile in modern Italian), referring to the spiral-grooved barrel of the latter.
In addition to plain and whole wheat varieties, as with any pasta, other colours can be made by mixing other ingredients into the dough, which also affects the flavour, for example, beetroot for red, spinach for green, and cuttlefish ...
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Energy per 100g:
- 1,553 kJ (9.693E+18 MeV )
Incompatible with dietary restrictions:
Also known as:
- Spaghetti, dry, enriched
