Italian Food Word Search
Italian food leans on tomatoes now, but they only reached the country from the Americas in the 1500s and took a long while to catch on in home kitchens. Dishes and ingredients from across the regions round out the list, good company for a cooking class.
Italian Food word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- bread
- cheese
- garlic
- lasagna
- meatball
- pasta
- pizza
- ravioli
- spaghetti
- tomato
Italian Food word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- bread
- cannoli
- cheese
- garlic
- gnocchi
- lasagna
- meatball
- parmesan
- pasta
- pesto
- pizza
- ravioli
- risotto
- spaghetti
- tomato
Italian Food word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- bread
- cannoli
- cheese
- fettuccine
- garlic
- gelato
- gnocchi
- lasagna
- meatball
- minestrone
- mozzarella
- parmesan
- pasta
- pesto
- pizza
- prosciutto
- ravioli
- risotto
- spaghetti
- tomato
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Words in the Italian Food word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- pizza
- Flat bread topped with sauce and cheese, then baked.
- pasta
- Wheat flour dough shaped and boiled in salted water.
- spaghetti
- Long round strands of pasta served with sauce.
- lasagna
- Flat pasta sheets layered with sauce and cheese.
- ravioli
- Small filled pasta pillows sealed at the edges.
- meatball
- Ball of seasoned ground meat cooked in sauce.
- garlic
- Strong flavored bulb used in nearly every region.
- tomato
- Red fruit cooked into the sauces of southern Italy.
- cheese
- Milk food grated or melted over many Italian dishes.
- bread
- Crusty loaf served beside almost every Italian meal.
- risotto
- Creamy rice dish stirred with broth a little at a time.
- gnocchi
- Soft dumplings made from potato and flour.
- pesto
- Sauce ground from basil, garlic, nuts, cheese and oil.
- parmesan
- Hard aged cheese from the Parma area, grated over pasta.
- cannoli
- Crisp pastry tubes filled with sweetened ricotta.
- gelato
- Dense Italian frozen dessert with less air than ice cream.
- prosciutto
- Salt cured ham sliced very thin.
- mozzarella
- Soft white cheese that stretches when it melts.
- fettuccine
- Flat ribbon pasta wider than spaghetti.
- minestrone
- Thick vegetable soup with beans and small pasta.
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