Fideo

Fideo is a traditional pasta variety. The name simply means noodles, but these noodles are golden and short, thin like vermicelli, and they're used in traditional dishes such as sopa de fideo and fideua. If unavailable, fideo pasta can be replaced by broken spaghetti or similar thin-strand pasta varieties.

It's often added to dishes near the end of cooking because fideo pasta needs a short time to become fully cooked, but in some dishes it's first browned in a pan, followed by other ingredients such as tomatoes, bell peppers, potatoes, carrots, and meat.