How to cook pasta, straightforward steps

I adore pasta, although it receives a poor name due to having high carbohydrates and the white type containing processed white wheat. A great top quality whole grain pasta served in modest servings may be a flexible and important part of a healthy well-balanced eating routine and I may go as far to say that for me even white pasta can be enjoyed included in a healthy diet. It may be served many ways with a tremendous rank of sauces readily available such as tomato base, cream based, pesto and more. Pasta is great in bakes, soups and mixed into salads to have cold. Oh and most importantly it tastes great!

I enjoy my pasta best served with a good top quality selfmade basil and walnut pesto or a dense vegetable crammed tomato based sauce. Arriabiata and Putenesca type sauces get my top vote but even a simple spaghetti sauce tastes fantastic.

Prior to starting you should realize that although the low cost pasta may be right for your budget like the majority of things in daily life it may not always give the greatest flavor. Spending extra to get a high quality pasta can be beneficial and it's also usually truly worth trying several brand names and keeping track of the ingredients.

How to cook pasta, straightforward steps

If cooked poorly pasta gets sloppy and starchy. Flawlessly cooked it simply tastes so much better. Al Dente, Italian for Just Right (not undercooked as more often than not thought) asks for the pasta to be a lttle bit firm.

You should measure Oven pasta in a ratio of 4 cups, which is 1 quart, of water to 3 ounces of pasta and a big flat wide pot functions best.

1. Top up the pot with the correct volume of water for the amount of pasta you would like to prepare and put about 1/8 of a t-spoon of sea salt per cup of water. In addition put a little drizzle of olive oil to the water, this prevents the pasta sticking to the pan.


2. Bring the water to a quick boil.


3. Add your pasta and let the liquid go back to the boil but turn down the heat slightly if needed to keep the nice rolling boil.


4. After 8 minutes has passed it's the perfect time to test the pasta. use a fork and very carefully taste a piece. The pasta should be firm but easy to bite through and it should taste cooked as you expect. If it's not ready keep testing each minute until it is ready.


5. Go ahead and take pasta off the oven and strain immediately. If it is going to be used in a hot meal serve without delay, for cold meals drain and run cold water through the pasta and refrigerate for a few hours.

As you have seen it is not a big problem to make superb pasta however the key minutes of tasting are where everything can go wrong. Once over done there is no way to recover it.