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nicman24@kbin.social 7 months ago
gnocchi is not pasta
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
nicman24@kbin.social 7 months ago
it is made from potatoes
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Gnocchi are a varied family of Pasta in Italian cuisine. They are made of small lumps of dough most traditionally composed of a simple combination of wheat flour, egg, salt, and potato.
Source: Gnocchi on Wikipedia
Album@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It’s made with potato, but also flour, egg, water… Then boiled in water…Like all pasta.
Slovene@feddit.nl 7 months ago
And flour
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There are gnocchi, gnocchetti (small gnocchi) that are pasta. What you know as gnocchi are properly called “gnocchi di patate” in italian, i.e. potato gnocchis
thethirdobject@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s the answer, the gnocchi pastas imitate the shape of the potato gnocchi. I also wouldn’t really call potato gnocchi pastas, like if I invite people to eat and say I’m cooking pastas, nobody’s expecting potato gnocchi. But I think in Italy they’re in the same aisle as fresh pastas. The thing is - and op’s picture is correct - that italians actually differenciate between different shapes of pasta, for the simple reason that pasta shapes have functional reasons and different shapes correspond to different dishes.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, and it is also incorrect in that normal people call it spaghetti because that makes people discuss the shitpost and remember it fondly