Pasta meals are easy to cook. The pasta itself just needs to be placed in boiling water and can be cooked within 10 to 15 minutes – depending on the type of pasta of course. While the pasta is boiling, you can prepare your desired sauce – whether it may be tomato, pesto or cream based.
To those experienced in the kitchen, this kind of meal is easy to make. However, the novices might still find a pasta meal troublesome. One thing to be careful of when cooking pasta – is noodles. You need to test regular to see if they are done. The pasta cooks quickly and leaving it too long can result in soggy noodles.
Avoid placing the pasta when the water is not yet boiling. This will help prevent the pasta from becoming all mushy, soft and sticky. Keep the water at a boil at all times. You can make the pasta firmer by adding salt to the boiling water. Do not cover the pot when you have placed the pasta. When the pasta is done, get rid of the water. If you don’t, the pasta will continue to cook and become soggy.
The good thing about pasta is having several choices for sauces. If you’re a pasta person then having a couple of sauces stored in your refrigerator is the way to go. If you have pesto, you can use that to sauce your pasta. Add additional garlic, some mushrooms, Italian sausages topped with cheese – and Voila!
Bottled or canned sun-dried tomatoes can go well with pasta. I always try to have some sun-dried tomatoes ready since you can just pour it over your pasta and you have a tomato based pasta without the traditional tomato sauce and pastes. Topped with grated cheese partnered with bread and you can have a fulfilling meal in no time.
If you want a cream-based sauce, just prepare some sliced olives, cream, oregano and grated cheese. Mix the cream, olives and oregano together with your pasta and finish off with grated cheese on top. A simple cream-based pasta but can be quite joyous to the palette.
Olive oil is also a staple sauce for pasta and can be quite easy to use as well. You can mix olive oil with canned seafood or slices of meat or sausages to create a sauce for your pasta. You can add basil for flavour and don’t forget the grated cheese. If you want to experiment, try adding spicy flavoured meat or canned seafood. Spicy pasta may not be for everyone but still a good dish by all means.
