Definition of pasta in English:
pasta
noun ˈpastəˈpɑstə
A dish originally from Italy consisting of dough made from durum wheat and water, extruded or stamped into various shapes and typically cooked in boiling water.
- We use saffron water to give fresh pasta an inviting rich colour and subtle flavour.
- I don't know why, when dried noodles are now as easy to find, store and cook as dried pasta.
- The old days of a beer keg on the coach on the way home have been replaced with trips back drinking water and eating pasta.
- We sprinkle this coral powder over fish dishes, risottos and creamy sauces for pasta.
- Cook the pasta in a pan of salted water as per the instructions on the packet.
- Cook the pasta in plenty of boiling salted water for two to three minutes until tender.
- Tip in the beans, the ricotta and the drained pasta and fold lightly with fork.
- Serve pasta in big warmed bowls and ladle copious quantities of bolognaise mince on top.
- Repeat the whole rolling process until you have created enough pasta for the lasagne.
- Two people are paying their bill and the waitress is finishing up a dish of pasta.
- Salt the water and add the pasta, letting it cook at a fast boil till tender.
- The pasta went into the hot water in the saucepan and I lit the gas underneath it on my stove.
- There were roast pheasants, turkeys and boar, pizzas, pastas, caviar, salads, gelatin, pies and many other yummy goodies.
- Use mint instead of the basil if you like, and use another shaped pasta if you have no fettuccine.
- Sometimes I cook large rice or pasta for salads and vary the toppings as the week goes by.
- Fred had three favourite Pronto Pasta pasta dishes, all of which still remain as part of the menu.
- I often put a table out of doors at my house in Surrey and pile it with big pots of delicious pasta and salads.
- The pastas include lasagne, spaghetti, tagliatelle, macaroni, tortellini and capellini, so you're not going to get much more Italian than that!
- Despite her reluctance, there are plenty of good reasons to choose brown pasta.
- But Miss Wilson sent him money and he bought food such as pasta and cooked it in his cell.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Italian, literally 'paste'.
Rhymes
Antofagasta, aster, Astor, canasta, Jocasta, oleaster, piastre (US piaster), pilaster, poetaster, Rasta, Zoroaster
Definition of pasta in US English:
pasta
nounˈpästəˈpɑstə
A dish originally from Italy consisting of dough made from durum wheat and water, extruded or stamped into various shapes and typically cooked in boiling water.
- The pastas include lasagne, spaghetti, tagliatelle, macaroni, tortellini and capellini, so you're not going to get much more Italian than that!
- Sometimes I cook large rice or pasta for salads and vary the toppings as the week goes by.
- Salt the water and add the pasta, letting it cook at a fast boil till tender.
- Despite her reluctance, there are plenty of good reasons to choose brown pasta.
- Fred had three favourite Pronto Pasta pasta dishes, all of which still remain as part of the menu.
- Two people are paying their bill and the waitress is finishing up a dish of pasta.
- I don't know why, when dried noodles are now as easy to find, store and cook as dried pasta.
- The old days of a beer keg on the coach on the way home have been replaced with trips back drinking water and eating pasta.
- There were roast pheasants, turkeys and boar, pizzas, pastas, caviar, salads, gelatin, pies and many other yummy goodies.
- Use mint instead of the basil if you like, and use another shaped pasta if you have no fettuccine.
- Cook the pasta in a pan of salted water as per the instructions on the packet.
- I often put a table out of doors at my house in Surrey and pile it with big pots of delicious pasta and salads.
- The pasta went into the hot water in the saucepan and I lit the gas underneath it on my stove.
- We use saffron water to give fresh pasta an inviting rich colour and subtle flavour.
- We sprinkle this coral powder over fish dishes, risottos and creamy sauces for pasta.
- Tip in the beans, the ricotta and the drained pasta and fold lightly with fork.
- Serve pasta in big warmed bowls and ladle copious quantities of bolognaise mince on top.
- But Miss Wilson sent him money and he bought food such as pasta and cooked it in his cell.
- Repeat the whole rolling process until you have created enough pasta for the lasagne.
- Cook the pasta in plenty of boiling salted water for two to three minutes until tender.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Italian, literally ‘paste’.