what is orecchiette pasta
Orecchiette (Italian pronunciation: [orekËkjÉtte] ; singular orecchietta; from Italian orecchia, meaning ear, and-etta, meaning small) is a variety of home-made pasta typical of Apulia, a region of southern Italy.he Italian cookbook Il cucchiaio d'argento (with an English translation The Silver Spoon, 2005, Phaidon) suggests that orecchiette are ideal for vegetable sauces. In China, a similar type of pasta is called ç«è³æµ (mÄo Är duÇ, literally, cat's ears).