Delicious Pasta

Cooking spaghetti can not be left. So, if you're cooking pasta, be serious and patient. How to cook it well, follow this rules:

1. Pour plenty of water when cooking pasta. One and half gallons water (1 gallon = 4.5 liters), sufficient for 500 gr of pasta.
2. Add salt to taste into the water for pasta does not taste bland. Recommended for 1.5 gallons of water 2 tablespoons (flat) fine salt. For ordinary salt, half of these doses.
3. Before entering the pasta, make sure the water completely cooked. Enter the pasta a little bit into the water that has been cooked so as not to accumulate. After all the pasta mixture, stirring to evenly cooked.
4. Note the time. Fresh pasta cooked faster, at least 1.5 minutes. Dry pasta, depending on the brand, takes approximately 7-8 minutes for the kind of quality pasta. When you mix the pasta into the sauce, heat simultaneously and it takes about 1 minute. Thus the sauce will absorb into the pasta.
5. To filter the pasta, use a pasta cooker that has a special filter. Can also use a large sieve or a perforated ladle. In this way, the water used cooking can still be used for cooking other types of pasta.
6. Fresh pasta or dried pasta which one is better? The answer: it depends. Fresh pasta melted in the mouth and very tasty when mixed with certain sauces. We can not generalize. Both the regular sauce or sauce of quality suitable for fresh pasta and dried pasta.
7. How much cooked pasta? When you serve pasta as a main meal, 500 gr of pasta will soon run out eaten for four people who are hungry-hungry. If as appetizers, 500 gr of pasta can be used for eight people.
8. How much sauce that is used? In Italy, pasta is the main food. Of course pasta sauce is necessary but the food is very tasty and into the main food types. So, just as an extra sauce only. No need too much.
9. When the pasta sauce dries up, what should we do? Combine boiling water used to taste pasta sauce to soften it.