Pasta Varieties and Pairings
Pasta Type
Shape
Cooking Time
Sauce Paring
Spaghetti
Thin, long
8 minutes
Carbonara
Penne
Tube, ridged
10 minutes
Creamy meat sauces
Fusilli
Spiral
9 minutes
Chunky, vegetable-based
Rigatoni
Large, ridged tube
11 minutes
Tomato-based