Third point: Just do me a favor, no ketchup.
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Since pasta is cheap, you can throw away a little and experiment until you find your perfect cooking time. But beware: since foreigners often prefer their pasta soft, you may find on the package a cooking time that reflects this and advises you to cook the pasta for much more time than an Italian would. You usually get it “al dente” by cooking it for exactly the indicated cooking time. We Italians like our pasta “ al dente”, that means a little hard. Go well beyond the cooking time and congratulations! You have inedible glue! Go over the cooking time and it will become softer and softer. Cook pasta for less than the cooking time, and it will remain hard. Second point: each kind of pasta has a cooking time, usually indicated on the package. Since the basic steps are more or less the same, you can go on and create your own sauce from there. I will give you the recipes for two easy sauces, very popular in Italy. While cooking the pasta itself is basically made by only one step “throw pasta in boiling water”, the sauce can be a more complicate affair. Cooking Pasta: Important Pointsįirst point: “cooking pasta” means actually cooking the pasta and the sauce. Of course, pasta is very high in carbs, so it’s certainly not a good idea to eat it every day, twice a day.Īnyway, I’m going to tell you how an Italian cooks his pasta, the Italian being me, my method being the quintessential way we cook pasta everywhere in the country. You can eat pasta every day and yet never have the same dish twice. All you need to know from me is that pasta is quick to prepare, it comes in many different sizes and shapes and can be accompanied by an almost limitless number of sauces. Nor why any kind of food, if consumed in excessive quantities is, on the other hand, not healthy at all. I don’t have to tell you why pasta is good for your health.