How to cook spaghetti
You will need - spaghetti, water, salt, oil to taste
1. It is better to cook spaghetti in a large wide saucepan with the addition of plenty of water - not less than 2 liters per 200 grams of spaghetti. At the same time, expect that for two servings of spaghetti for a side dish, you need 100 grams of dry spaghetti, since spaghetti during cooking increases in weight by 3 times.
2. Place a pot of water over high heat and bring the water to a boil.
3. Salt water (for 1 liter of water - 1 teaspoon of salt.
5. Put the spaghetti in boiling water.
Spaghetti is fanned into a saucepan (or you can break it in half if the spaghetti is too long), after a minute they are pounded a little so that the spaghetti is completely immersed in the water. To do this, it is convenient to use a spatula - or grab the dry edge of the spaghetti with your hand in order to push the soft part deep into the pan.
6. Reduce heat - it should be medium so that the water actively boils, but does not foam.
7. Cook the spaghetti without a lid for 8-9 minutes.
8. Put the spaghetti in a colander, let the water drain for 3 minutes (you can shake the colander a little to glass the liquid and the steam evaporates).
9. Serve the spaghetti hot or use in dishes with a fork and spoon.
How to cook spaghetti in a slow cooker
Usually, a saucepan is used to boil spaghetti, however, if all the pots are full or you need a wide pan, a slow cooker will come to the aid of cooking spaghetti.
1. Pour water into the multicooker, bring to a boil on the "Pasta" mode - 7-10 minutes, depending on the amount of water.
2. Put the spaghetti in a slow cooker.
3. Add a few drops of oil and salt and stir.
4. Boil the pasta after boiling for 8-9 minutes.
Fusofacts
What to do to prevent spaghetti from sticking together- To prevent the spaghetti from sticking together, add one spoonful of sunflower oil to the water during cooking.
- Stir occasionally to prevent the spaghetti from sticking to the pan.
- It is worth rinsing spaghetti only if you have overcooked them or they stick together during cooking due to the wrong duration or the quality of the spaghetti.
- If you plan to use spaghetti further in cooking and they will be cooked, you can not cook the spaghetti for a while (a couple of minutes). They will turn out "al dente" (per tooth), but will soften completely during further cooking.
- After boiling, spaghetti must be thrown into a colander and put in a colander in a saucepan in order to drain excess water. This will take 3-4 minutes, and when shaking a colander or stirring pasta - 1 minute. If you overexpose pasta over a saucepan, it can dry out, stick together and spoil its taste. If for some reason you are delayed in further cooking the spaghetti, pour some oil into the pasta, stir and cover.
What to do if spaghetti sticks together
1. If the spaghetti sticks together at the beginning of cooking, it means they were placed in unboiled water. It is recommended to divide the spaghetti with a spoon, peel off the pasta with a spoon from the bottom and sides of the pan, add a few drops of vegetable oil and continue cooking.
2. If the spaghetti stuck together in the pan, it means that you overdid it in the pan and squeezed (just a little compression is enough). Hot soaked spaghetti instantly sticks to each other. It is recommended to cut off and discard all adhering parts.
3.If the spaghetti sticks together because of the quality of the pasta or the fact that they were overcooked, the solution is as follows: rinse the boiled spaghetti thoroughly, let the water drain for a couple of minutes and stir a spoonful of oil in the pasta. In the meantime, heat a frying pan, pour a little more oil on it and add the spaghetti. Spaghetti due to oil and a little additional heat treatment will be crumbly.
How to eat spaghetti
- Spaghetti is long and slippery, so it is more convenient for many to eat spaghetti with a fork and spoon (in Italy, by the way, they are so used to spaghetti that they just eat with a fork, without hesitation to suck pasta with their lips). To comply with etiquette, the spoon is taken in the left hand, and with the right hand (there is a fork in it) they pry some pasta and, resting the fork on the spoon, wind the spaghetti on the fork. If 1-2 pasta is still hanging from the fork, you can cut it off with a spoon on a plate.
- It is more convenient to eat spaghetti from deep plates - there is a chance to wind not one, but several strands of spaghetti on a fork. Keep in mind that the etiquette suggests wrapping 7-10 spaghetti on a fork.
- If you dislike the process of winding spaghetti on a fork, it is recommended to resort to the old proven method: cut part of the pasta with the edge of a fork, pry the spaghetti with a fork so that they lie on it, and send it into your mouth.
- As a rule, spaghetti is cooked with sauce after boiling. If so, you don't need to rinse the spaghetti so that the finished pasta can better absorb the taste of the sauce.
- Boiled spaghetti cools down very quickly, so the plates in which the spaghetti will be served are usually preheated. Alternatively, you can heat the spaghetti yourself in a skillet with a little oil.
- In spaghetti, special rectangular pots are used for cooking spaghetti: in them long pasta lies completely, sticking, as well as breaking of pasta, is excluded.
Check out the recipes for spaghetti sauces: tomato sauce, bolognese, cheese sauce and carbonara, garlic Sause.