What sauce goes with penne?

Chef's answer
Keep this easy pairing advice in mind. Tubular shapes like penne and ziti are perfect with hearty, thick sauces like ragu. Rigate, the ridged ones, capture even more sauce. Wide, flat pastas like pappardelle are ideal for sopping up creamy sauces.
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Substitute for Ziti Pasta
  • You can use penne which is very easy to find.
  • OR - Buy mostaccioli.
  • OR - Even rigatoni may be substituted but the tubes are much wider.
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This dish is for ziti noodles, but you can substitute with any short noodle. Macaroni is always available at Aldi and penne is available as a special purchase some weeks. Whatever pasta you do end up using, make sure to undercook the noodles so that it doesn't become mushy when it is baked.
Ziti is a pretty common pasta shape in most areas, but you can substitute penne pasta if you can't find it. You want a substantial short pasta shape with places to hold the sauce and meat.
Garofalo Penne Ziti Rigate is a bronze-drawn Pasta di Gragnano IGP (PGI) with a rough surface and an intense flavour. Among the most popular Italian pasta shapes in the world, Garofalo Penne Ziti Rigate have the flavour and colour of wheat..
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