Cooking spaghetti, saying simplicity is pretty easy.
As the traditional Italian family food, every household can make delicious, can make their own characteristics, which is one of the charm of pasta.
I used to go for freshly prepared pasta until I read a documentary saying that dried pasta is more representative of the importance of this food - long-term preservation. The Italian people, too, have gone through a period of extreme poverty and food shortages, and for them, the dried pasta in the home is a sense of security.
However, even if it seems plausible, there are always people who ask, "Why do I have a bad pasta?"
Either too hard or too bad, or no taste.
So it seems, there are still some tips worth special talk about. After all, Italians do not all have spaghetti flair, but those skills are handed down from generation to generation in the family, and they are exposed, like we cook dumplings.
So, I summarize the 10 most important pasta cooking tips, just do what you do, and your pasta will surprise yourself.
1
When cooking, be sure to add salt
This simple question, many people know. But still some doubts: 1. Why salt? 2. How much salt to add?
First of all, the main reason for adding salt is pasta texture hard, neither easy to cook, not easy to taste, and add salt, you can solve these two problems: A. Salt to water boiling point, noodles cooked Faster; B. salt cooked noodles in the process, let noodles absorb salty.
As for how much salt is added, a common saying is "add as much salt as possible." As a result, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of salted salt, and a boiled salty to bitter ... In fact, about 3 liters of water may only need to add 1 tablespoon of salt, and you can taste the salty water.
2
Add enough water.
This one is often overlooked. Cooked pasta must be as much water (in the pot's range), there are two reasons:
1. Water enough to allow pasta to spread more in the water, reducing adhesion and allowing more heat to be applied to each noodle.
2. enough water to make the water temperature more stable, the moment into the pasta water temperature will not be significantly reduced, will soon be able to resume boiling, which also helps to cook more flexible pasta.
3
Stir constantly.
Put the pasta into the pot to start cooking do not care?
NONONO, do not go away! Even if you go away, remember to come back every three minutes to stir the pot surface, to avoid any adhesions in them, so that each root is even cooked.
4
The best taste to cook pasta: Chewy!
Delicious pasta taste, with the word "chewy" to describe the most accurate.
The specific point is that the noodles are soft and resilient, cooked but not rotten, clear roots, bite a cross-section of the surface, the middle of the pinhole fine white core. So, how to cook such a perfect " Chewy" taste?
One suggestion is to press the cooking time behind the bag of pasta. Another suggestion is: 1 minute before the end of the cooking time indicated in the package, start to taste, if you feel the taste is OK, you can turn off the heat, if you feel a little less heat, cook for 30 seconds and try again.
Because sometimes the prepared pasta will be added directly to the saucepan and stir-fry, then the pasta will continue to heat, so you can cook the pasta a little longer than usual, and then a little shorter, it will be just fine.
Another reminder, remove the pasta, you can directly into the sauce pan, you can also drain the drain (if the sauce is not yet done), but must not cross the water.
5
Reserve some boiled water.
Don't pour out all the water that has been cooked in pasta, and serve a small bowl. When you mix the pasta with the sauce, if you feel a little dry, you can take a spoonful of boiling water and dilute it.
6
The sauce is too important.
The delicious sauce is the soul of the pasta.
So, don't mix your carefully cooked spaghetti with the unsavory sauce.
Tomato sauce, basil sauce, white sauce, actually all is very good, recipes conveniently search there, basic ingredients are not difficult to buy, you have time, suggest an hour to do a big pot, packing frozen in a sealed box, can eat a little more than a month.
7
Mix the sauce in the pan instead of the plate.
Some people like to first remove the pasta and put it on a plate, then pour a layer of sauce on top, and then stir.
The better way to eat is to mix it directly in the pan. If it is the sauce that is made now, put it directly in the sauce pan into the cooked pasta, and then turn the heat over for a few minutes and then turn off the heat. If it's a ready-made sauce, heat it in a pan, then pour it into the pasta and turn it over for a few minutes to turn off the heat. This not only allows the pasta and sauce to mix more evenly, but also allows the pasta to better absorb the flavor of the sauce during the heating process.
8
After you close the fire, drizzle some olive oil.
Turn off the fire is not immediately after loading, in order to make pasta loading plate as much as possible when each is very clear, before pouring a little olive oil, mix a mix, both to avoid the adhesion, but also make noodles more shiny, Also added flavor. If there is Parmesan cheese, then rub some cheese broken up, will be more delicious. If you feel more thick sauce more thick, turn off the heat can add a little boiled pasta water, mix with waste heat can be.
9
Swing shape must also pay attention
While being good-looking doesn't change the taste of the pasta, it can affect the mood of the diners.
Visual seductive, eat will have a psychological effect blessing, 80 points can also be mentioned 100 points.
And what should a good pasta look like? It's very simple. Just twist the noodles into a roll and make it a little higher. The most convenient tool is the kitchen clamp, which picks up a mess of spaghetti and turns it on the plate to make a pile of noodles in the center of the plate. This is not a difficult move. You can practice it a few times.
10
Finally, a little bit of olive oil and a little cheese.
Take out the best olive oil (you can afford it), pour it over the top of the plate and rub the parmesan pieces, then sit back and enjoy the best you've ever had Pasta!
Do you have any other tips?
Come and share with us.
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