Definitions

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  • noun short pasta tube with ribbed sides

Etymologies

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Italian diminutive of ditale ("thimble")

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Examples

  • If, like today, I am using dried pasta – this ditalini is prefect – I cook it separately and then add it to the soup.

    Pasta e Ceci 2010

  • If, like today, I am using dried pasta – this ditalini is prefect – I cook it separately and then add it to the soup.

    Pasta e Ceci 2010

  • I amended two details right off the mark - because I was not making a meat dish, I opted for vegetable stock instead of chicken stock, and I used small seashell pasta instead of ditalini.

    Presto Pasta Nights: Pasta e Ceci Shaun 2007

  • Additionally, the chosen pasta may have absorbed more of the liquid on account of its greater surface size, but it does not really look that much bigger than ditalini.

    Presto Pasta Nights: Pasta e Ceci Shaun 2007

  • Step 4: In a separate pot, cook the ditalini pasta.

    NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2010

  • The beef "noodle" soup offered with our meals was assembled from a mild (but not too salty) broth, chunks of carrot, and lots of ditalini pasta.

    Reader - MassLive.com 2010

  • The beef "noodle" soup offered with our meals was assembled from a mild (but not too salty) broth, chunks of carrot, and lots of ditalini pasta.

    Reader - MassLive.com 2010

  • Accompaniments: extra-virgin olive oil for drizzling; cooked ditalini pasta tossed with oil (optional); grated Parmigiano-Reggiano

    Epicurious.com: New Recipes 2009

  • Tonight's offering: a pork and olive number that has a light, tomato-tinged broth, ditalini noodles, huge chunks of tender pork shoulder, broken pieces of colossal green Sicilian olives, bits of tomato, pepper and onion and loads of fennel seed.

    Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage 2009

  • Medium-size pasta, such as medium shells or ditalini, work well in hearty soups such as pasta-and-bean soup.

    The Register-Guard: RSS Feeds 2009

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