A slow cooker is a popular modern appliance with which you can seriously speed up and simplify cooking. In addition, it replaces many other devices, so it also allows you to free up space in the kitchen. You can cook a variety of dishes, from porridge to dessert. For example, you can make an original and simple dish - spaghetti in a slow cooker.
Pasta in a slow cooker can serve as an excellent
side dish for meat or fish. Pasta is a source of carbohydrates, but may well be considered a dietary dish. The main thing is not to get involved in fatty sauces. No wonder many Italians who eat a variety of pasta every day, even in old age, can boast a beautiful figure, as well as beautiful skin and hair - pasta made from durum wheat contains vitamins and fiber. So, it’s decided - we cook spaghetti in a slow cooker.
Of course, you can simply cook them in hot water. But sometimes there is practically no time to cook something, but I still want to try something new and unusual. Cooking pasta in a slow cooker will be the best solution for this situation.
Let's start with the simplest recipe. Using the "Pilaf" mode, put the pasta in a slow cooker, add oil and a small amount of water. Typically, the program takes forty minutes. If you use the "Soup" mode, everything will be ready faster, in twenty minutes.
You can pre-fry vegetables and meat in the "Bake" mode, then add pasta and add a little water. After that, you need to enable the "Pilaf" mode or the "Meat" mode for twenty minutes. The peculiarity of using the regime for pilaf is that with this preparation, pasta does not boil, do not burn and does not dry. When using a higher temperature, the dish may burn, so it will need to be constantly stirred.
One of the most original ways of cooking spaghetti in a slow cooker is a casserole. Boiled pasta with vegetables should be fried in the “Baking” mode for ten minutes, after which the mixture is poured with milk and eggs and sprinkled with cheese. The dish is cooked for half an hour in the "Bake" mode. Instead of vegetables, you can use mushrooms, eggplant, meat or fish for casseroles.
Another variant of the beloved dish is navy pasta. First you need to cook spaghetti in a slow cooker, you can use the method described first. Then you need to get and wash the spaghetti. Finely chopped onions and carrots with vegetable oil and minced meat are fried in the "Frying" mode for about a quarter of an hour. Pre-cooked spaghetti is added to the mixture, everything is mixed and fried for another five minutes in the same mode. All pasta in the navy using a slow cooker ready.
Finally, a delicious Italian-style recipe is pasta with cream sauce. For it, you need to cook onions for five minutes in the "Frying" mode, then add a glass of cream and a little grated Parmesan, as well as some spices, for example, ginger and pepper. Stir until the cheese melts, then add the egg and mix everything quickly. Hot creamy sauce is ready, you just have to cook your favorite pasta variety in a slow cooker, pour them with sauce and turn on the "Stew" mode for ten minutes. When serving, you can decorate the dish with grated cheese and fresh basil.