fusilli

Fusilli () are a variety of pasta from southern Italy, with a helical (corkscrew) or helicoidal shape, also known as rotini in the United States and Canada.

==Etymology== , the singular form of , means in Italian. Fusilli are traditionally made by wrapping pasta dough around a spindle, or in Italian. Fusilli are believed to be of Arab derivation, and are known as busiata in Sicily and busa in Sardinia, the two Italian regions where Muslim civilization first penetrated. Both busiata and busa come from the Arabic word (), meaning the thin reed around which the dough was traditionally wound to make the pasta.