Bavette

Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water.

How Made Factory-made pasta shaped like thin tagliatelle, but usually convex. The name varies according to width and place. The noodles are boiled in abundant salted water or in broth.

Also Known As The thinnest are bavettine, linguine (small tongues), lingue di passero (sparrow’s tongues), linguettine, and tagliatelline. Wider examples include trenette and trinette. Wider still are fettucce romane, fettuccelle, fresine, tagliarelli, and tagliatelle. And finally, there are fettucce, fettuccine, lasagnette, and pappardelle. In Sicily, they are called lasagneddi.