Fusilli
Fusilli are long, thick, corkscrew shaped pasta. The word
fusilli presumably comes from
fuso, as traditionally it is "spun" by pressing and rolling a small rod over the thin strips of pasta to wind them around it in a corkscrew shape, much like a modern Turkish spindle. In addition to plain and whole wheat varieties, as with any pasta, other colours can be made by mixing other ingredients into the dough, which also affects the flavour, for example, beetroot or tomato for red, spinach for green, and cuttlefish ink for black.
Fusilli may be solid or hollow. Hollow
fusilli are also called
fusilli bucati. The term
fusilli is also used to describe a short, flattened, twisted pasta known as rotini in the United States.