Vegetable Sauces: If you have a chunky vegetable sauce, look for pasta cuts with lots of nooks and crannies or deep crevices to catch and hold the vegetables.
Suggestions: rigatoni, orecchiette, rotelle, shells

 
 

Cheese Sauces: Cheese sauces adhere best to small pastas cuts with lots of surface area.
Suggestions: fusilli, farfalle, macaroni, mostaccioli, shells

 
 

Oil-Based Sauces: Pesto and other oil-based sauces are just right for keeping long, thin cuts from clumping together. They also coat noodles more evenly than they would smaller pasta with lots of crevices.
Suggestions: fusilli bucati, spaghetti, fettuccini

 

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