Mostaccioli (from the Italian for "mustache") are 2-inch long pasta tubes, sometimes with a ridged surface. The same shape is also called penne and ziti.
Generically, the dish "mostaccioli" means the pasta served with marinara sauce and, possibly, baked in a casserole, a staple of American school cafeteria and Italian-American weddings.
The word mostaccioli can also refer to a kind of cookie, historically sweetened with grape must or mosto.
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Also known as:
- Macaroni, dry, enriched