How To Sauce Pasta
- September 21, 2009
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Stacie_Borrello
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Brandon Potter
Don’t make the beginner’s mistake of draining your pasta through a colander. Create restaurant-style pasta – and win rave reviews from dinner guests.
You Will Need
- A saucepan
- Sauce
- Pasta
- A skimmer
- A ladle
- Butter
- Olive oil
- Grated parmesan cheese
- Fresh basil or parsley
Step 1: Heat sauce
Heat the sauce in a saucepan over medium-low heat while the pasta is cooking.
Step 2: Remove pasta from water
Remove the pasta from the hot water with a skimmer – a flat, slotted utensil – once it has finished cooking. Reserve the water for later.
Step 3: Add pasta to sauce
Add the pasta to the sauce and mix. Heat the pasta and sauce together for one minute.
Don’t “oversauce” your pasta – use just enough to coat the noodles evenly.
Step 4: Add starchy water
Add half a ladle of the starchy water to the saucepan and mix. Starch water gives your sauce a good consistency and keeps your pasta moist.
Step 5: Add fat
Turn off the heat and add a small scoop of butter and a dash of olive oil and mix.
Step 6: Add cheese
Grate a handful of parmesan cheese and mix it through the pasta.
Step 7: Add herbs
Mix in basil or parsley just before serving. Ring the dinner bell quickly so everyone can enjoy your creation while it’s hot.
The Chinese cooked with pasta as early as 5,000 B.C.
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Comments (2)
Makes saucing pasta look so artful!
over 2 years ago by HeatherM
It's ok to drain pasta in a colander! After draining put the pasta in the sauce and stir so that the pasta is covered in the sauce. The starch will ensure the sauce sticks to it. If the pasta is too think, add some of the water to the pasta to thin it.
over 2 years ago by David_Banes
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