bucatini

Bucatini, also known as perciatelli, is a thick spaghetti-like pasta with a hole running through the center. It is common throughout Lazio, particularly Rome. The similar ziti consists of long hollow rods which are also smooth in texture and have square-cut edges; "cut ziti" are ziti cut into shorter tubes. There is also a wider version of ziti, zitoni . Name The name comes from the Italian buco, meaning "hole", while bucato or its Neapolitan language variant perciato means "pierced". Composition and use Bucatini is a tubed pasta made of hard durum wheat flour and water. Its length is with a diameter. The average cooking time is nine minutes.