So, pasta is a familiar dish since childhood, which even a first grader is able to cook. However, if you look closely, the question of how to cook pasta will not be so simple, because there are many recipes for cooking this dish, which we will discuss in this article.
How to cook regular pasta?
Let's start with the simplest thing (what if someone doesn’t know?) - the most common pasta (or noodles, or noodles). In order to cook them, you need to boil water, salt it, and then put pasta there. Water is taken in a proportion of 2 cups per 100 g. pasta. They will cook for 20-30 minutes (noodles no more than 15). Then we take a sieve, put it over a sink or pan and overturn pasta into it. After the glass is water, they are returned to the pan (or immediately laid out on plates where they are seasoned with some kind of sauce or oil).
Some people cook pasta without draining the water. To do this, just pour it less (1 cup per 100 g.). It is necessary to boil them in boiling water for 20 minutes, and then put on a very slow fire, close the lid tightly and wait until the water is completely absorbed into the pasta (about 15-20 minutes). We must say right away that it is better not to put such experiments to inexperienced chefs - they can burn.
Now let's move on to how to cook pasta for more complex recipes.
How to cook pasta with cheese
To cook pasta with cheese, take 100 gr. 1 table l grated cheese, as much butter, pepper, salt and nutmeg. Cooked pasta (you need to make sure that they are not boiled too much), drain the water, then season them with pepper, nut and sprinkle with cheese when serving.
How to cook pasta with meat (hingane)
For pasta with meat, you will need an equal amount of pasta and meat (for example, 250 to 250 gr.), Vegetable oil, sugar (1 tsp), onion, bay leaf, garlic (3-4 medium cloves), pepper and mayonnaise .
First you need to cook meat (it can be anything, if you like fatter - pork or lamb, and you can also chicken or veal). To do this, we finely chop it, salt, pepper. At the bottom of the pan we pour a drop (layer of 3 mm) of oil, heat it, add sugar and bring to a golden color with constant stirring. Then we put the meat, chopped the onion there, add the bay leaf and spices to taste. Bring the meat to cook over low heat.
Then mix the meat with still hot pasta and serve!
How to cook pasta with cottage cheese
This product can serve not only as a main course, but also as a dessert. A great example of this is pasta with cottage cheese. In order to cook them, take 400 gr. Macaroni 300 gr. cottage cheese, as well as butter.
Cooked in the usual way, they need to be put in a pan with melted butter and add mashed cottage cheese.
How to cook tequila pasta
Have you ever thought that pasta can be cooked with tequila? Let's try!
To prepare you have to stock up:
- for marinade: 2 tables. l tequila, zest and juice of two limes, 2 table. l chili powder, the same amount of soy sauce, 1 table. l corn starch and about 6-8 (to your taste) garlic cloves.
- for the sauce: jalapeno pepper (2 pcs.), sweet pepper (1 each of red and green), three fourth cups of tequila, 1 tbsp. cream, half a glass of chopped cilantro, 1 table. l sesame oil, 1 pc. red onion (preferably regular), 1 cup of chicken stock and vegetables.
We will also need a pound of chicken breast and, of course, the main ingredient is a pound of pasta (wide noodles are also suitable).
To prepare the marinade, just mix all its ingredients. Then fill them with chicken breast and leave to marinate (the minimum time is an hour, but much tastier if you leave for 6-8 hours).
We heat sesame oil in a large frying pan , add jalapenos, sweet pepper, onions, sliced in strips, and fry, stirring, for 5-10 minutes (we make sure that the onion does not burn!). Then you can remove it all from the pan, put the breast slices in it, fry it for 5 minutes and return the vegetables back, then fry for another 2-3 minutes.
Next, take a large pan, mix half a glass of tequila with broth in it and bring to a boil. When it begins to boil, pour in the cream, the rest of the tequila, remove from heat and cover it tightly with a lid, hold for 15 minutes. Then heat it again and mix it with vegetables and chicken.
By the time the chicken is ready, you need to boil the pasta. Mix pasta with chicken, add cilantro. The dish is ready!