Small pasta parcels stuffed with meat or cheese, folded to look like tiny hats, common in Italian cuisine.
From Italian cappelletti, the plural of cappelletto, which comes from cappello meaning 'hat'—the pasta is folded to resemble little hats.
The name cappelletti literally means 'little hats' in Italian because when you fold this pasta just right, each piece looks like a tiny tricorn hat—it's folk etymology and cuisine combined into one bite!
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