Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water.
How Made Ridged factory-made tubes with twisted shape. Tortiglioni are boiled in abundant salted water.
Also Known As Depending on size, eliche, fusilli, fusilli a spirale, fusilloni, spirali (all types of spirals), gemelli (twins), and riccioli (curls).
How Served Generally as pastasciutta, with typical local sauces.
Where Found Throughout Italy, but especially southern Italy, Campania in particular.
The name refers to the shape and derives from the Vulgar Latin tortillare, which in turn is derived from the Classical Latin torquere, or “twist” (as in English “torsion”). Tortillare evolved into the Vulgar Italian tortigliare; thus, the noun tortiglione is literally a thing twisted in a spiral.
