How to cook pasta?

So, pasta - since childhood everything is a familiar dish that even a first-grader is able to cook. However, if you look closely, the question of how to cook pasta will not be so simple, because there are many recipes for cooking this dish, which we will discuss in this article.

How to cook pasta?

Let's start with the simplest (and suddenly someone does not know?) - the most common pasta (or vermicelli, or noodles). In order to weld them, you need to boil the water, salt it, and then put the pasta there. The water is taken in the proportion of 2 cups per 100 gr. Pasta. They will boil for 20-30 minutes (noodles not more than 15). Then we take a sieve, put it over a sink or pots and overturn pasta into it. After the water of the glass, they are returned to the pan (or immediately laid out on plates where they fill with some sauce or butter).

Some cook macaroni without draining the water. To do this, just pour it less (1 glass per 100 gr.). Cook them in boiling water for 20 minutes, and then put on a very slow fire, close the lid tightly and wait until the water is completely absorbed into the pasta (about 15-20 minutes). At once we will tell, that inexperienced cooks such experiments it is better not to put - can burn.

Now let's move on to how to cook pasta for more complex recipes.

How to cook macaroni and cheese

To cook pasta with cheese, take 100 gr. 1 table l. Grated cheese, as much butter, pepper, salt and nutmeg. Cook pasta (you need to make sure that they do not get too boiled), drain the water, then season them with pepper, a nut and sprinkle with cheese on the table.

How to cook pasta with meat (khingane)

For pasta with meat you will need an equal amount of pasta and meat (for example, 250 for 250 grams), vegetable oil, sugar (1 tsp), onion, bay leaves, garlic (3-4 medium denticles), pepper and mayonnaise .

First you need to cook meat (it can be anything if you like it fatter - pork or lamb, or you can chicken or veal). For this we cut it small, salt, pepper. At the bottom of the pot, pour a droplet (a layer of 3 mm) of the oil, warm it, add sugar and with constant stirring, bring to a golden color. Then we put the meat, cut the onions, add the bay leaf and spices to taste. We bring the meat to cook on low heat.

Then mix the meat with the hot pasta and serve it on the table!

How to cook pasta with cottage cheese

This product can serve not only as a main course, but also as a dessert. A perfect example of this - pasta with cottage cheese. In order to cook them, take 400 gr. Pasta 300 gr. Cottage cheese, and butter.

Welded in the usual way, they need to be put to a pan with melted butter and add there rubbed cottage cheese.

How to cook pasta with tequila

Did it ever occur to you that you can cook macaroni with tequila? Let's try!

For cooking you will have to stock up:

- for marinade: 2 table. L. Tequila, zest and juice of two limes, 2 table. L. Chilli powder, the same amount of soy sauce, 1 table. L. Starch corn and about 6-8 (according to your taste) cloves of garlic.

- For sauce: pepper jalapeno (2 pcs.), Sweet pepper (1 piece of red and green), three fourth of a glass of tequila, 1 tbsp. Cream, half a cup chopped cilantro, 1 table. L. Sesame oil, 1 pc. Onions red (preferably, the usual), 1 glass of broth on chicken bones and vegetables.

Also we need a pound of chicken breast and, of course, the main ingredient is half a kilogram of macaroni (wide noodles are also suitable).

To prepare the marinade, it is enough to mix all its ingredients. Then fill them with chicken breast and leave to marinate (the minimum time is an hour, but much more delicious if you leave the clock at 6-8).

In a large frying pan, warm sesame oil, add jalapeño, chopped sweet peppers, onions, and stir-fry, stirring, for about 5-10 minutes (make sure that the onion is not burnt!). Then you can remove it all from the frying pan, put the pieces of the breast into it, fry it for about 5 minutes and return the vegetables back, then fry for 2-3 more minutes.

Next, take a large saucepan, mix in it half a glass of tequila with broth and bring to a boil. When the boils - pour cream, the rest of tequila, remove from heat and, covering tightly with a lid, hold for 15 minutes. Then again slightly heat and mix with vegetables and chicken.

By the time the chicken is ready, you need to boil the pasta. Mix the pasta with chicken, add cilantro. The dish is ready!