Pasta with Oil
Pasta is one of the most basic, yet one of the most famous dishes from the Italian cuisine. It is known all over the world, and many people have a funny craze for it. It is due to the recent popularity and trend of this dish that may Italian restaurants and food chains have come up in different parts of the world, especially dedicated to pasta. In India too, Pasta is very famous, especially in the Northern region of the country.
Pasta is usually cooked with oil, and while there are different kinds of oil that one can use depending on one’s tastes and preferences, the most common type of oil used to make pasta is Olive Oil. Olive oil is an important ingredient of many Italian dishes. Also, since Olive oil is said to be good for the health, many chefs use it as an ingredient in a lot of other dishes too.
One can usually find readymade pasta packets in the market. These are of different shapes and types like penne, spaghetti, macaroni etc. Depending on what kind of pasta you would want to cook or what shape fascinates you, you can make the purchase. Children have a special fascination for the bow shaped pasta, so if you are planning to make a pasta dish on a family get-together or on your child’s birthday, or for that matter just randomly, you could go in for the bow-shaped pasta, which is much more attractive and appealing as compared to the other shapes of pasta available in the market.
When you get a pack of pasta, the first thing that you need to do is to boil the quantity desired. When boiling pasta, it is advisable to add about a teaspoon of salt along with 2-3 teaspoons of oil in order to ensure that the pasta do not stick to each other. Keep stirring it as well with a spoon to avoid the sticking. Once it is boiled, strain the water and let the pasta cool a little.
While the pasta is being boiled, you need to prepare the sauce for it. For the traditional tomato and basil pasta, you need to make tomato puree with some onions in it and cook it with olive oil in a pan. When the sauce is ready, just put the boiled pasta in it and let it cook for another 2-3 minutes. You can add ingredients like basil, oregano etc. You can even add parsley and garnish the pasta with mozzarella cheese. Cheese again, is an important ingredient of a lot of Italian dishes, and the biggest examples to these are pizza and lasagne.
Another kind of pasta that you can prepare is the one with white sauce. White sauce is easy to prepare with grated cheese in milk and butter. The most common ingredient in pasta with white sauce is mushrooms. However, the dish is a basic one, and hence, to increase the satiety value or to enhance the taste and suit the requirements of others, you can always add more vegetables to it.
Some people even add vinegar and soy sauce to their pasta to give it a little Chinese effect. If you think you do not have enough time at home to cook the pasta sauce, then you can always go in for the readymade pasta sauces available in the market. There are a lot of brands whose pasta sauces are really famous such as Prego’s. So once the pasta is boiled, all you need to do is just add the readymade pasta sauce and cook it for a couple of minutes in order to get a great dish ready for you.
- Ronit Baugh
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