It is not customary to call the most ordinary pasta among our compatriots Italian pasta, but to get such a dish, you must follow three basic rules: purchase the “right” pasta in the store, then cook them correctly and season them with the sauce that is most suitable for this product.
How to cook pasta? In Italy, it is believed that it is cooked throughout the year, like on holidays like on weekdays - with cheese or meat, seafood or vegetables, as well as with other ingredients - as far as you have enough imagination. The main thing in this process is generally accepted rules.
Before preparing the sauce, you should know that there is a direct relationship between the shape and contents of the sauce, as well as the size of the product.
How to make pasta pasta.
Stew sauce is prepared on the basis of chicken giblets, meat, smoked meats, and mushrooms. It is very nutritious, tasty and good for dressing almost all types of pasta, although it is worth saying that it is most suitable for thick-walled, short, large-diameter products. The sauce, which is prepared with vegetables or fresh tomatoes, pasta with small holes gives a certain piquancy.
How to cook pasta with seafood.
The sauce, which includes fish and seafood, is an excellent seasoning for dishes - both for short and long pasta, including tube pasta. The so-called white sauce, which is made with butter, cream or sour cream, is perfect for thin flat products, especially those cooked on their own.
How to make pasta from small pasta that have an original shape? A sweet sauce, for example, a sauce prepared on the basis of prunes, is suitable for them. It is quite simple to prepare it: for this you should take a glass of prunes, soak it in water and rub through a sieve. Then add meat broth or boiling water, sugar, salt, various spices and boil for a couple of minutes to get a thick consistency.
To get a good pasta, it is enough to sprinkle it with cold-pressed olive oil, sprinkle with fresh basil and grated parmesan. You can also add a few drops of balsamic vinegar and season to taste with ground black pepper.
There is another option for making the sauce - you should fry the garlic, which has been chopped in olive oil for a few seconds, add chopped ripe tomatoes to it, removing the skin beforehand, season and darken for several minutes, then mix with pasta and serve.
How to cook pasta with the most popular sauce? Such is seasoning based on bacon and parmesan. To prepare it, you will need two hundred grams of spaghetti, one hundred and fifty grams of bacon or uncooked ham, forty grams of Parmesan cheese, one hundred and fifty grams of onion, olive oil, two hundred grams of cream, pepper and salt.
Peel, chop, fry the onions over low heat, adding olive oil to it, as well as twenty-five grams of cream. Then, putting everything in a pan, pour two liters of water and put on fire. Cook until half cooked.
Cut the bacon into small thin slices and fry until crisp without oil, then drain the excess fat. Put spaghetti in boiling water and cook for such an amount of time as indicated in the instructions on the package.
Fried ham or bacon, pepper and cream should be added to the pan with onions. Quench the mixture for a while over low heat. After the mixture is ready, add it to the pasta. Having laid the product on a dish, it is necessary to sprinkle with parmesan, before serving it to guests.
The main rule of how to cook pasta is the need to make the sauce the thicker the shorter and thicker the pasta.