- Very fine cylindrical pasta Similar to capellini and fedelini Choose fine vermicelli and fedelini noodles, broken up, for broth-based soups Thicker varieties are suitable for sauces
Italian for "little worms," culinarily the term refers to Pasta shaped into very thin strands Vermicelli is much thinner than regular
The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name
vermicelli
Hyphenation
ver·mi·cel·li
Pronunciation
Etymology
() From Italian plural of Italian vermicello (“little worm”), from verme (“worm”), from Latin vermis + -cello (“diminutive suffix”)