Recipes From My Kitchen

I realized pasta's are the easiest one pot meals. If you have the sauce ready its just a matter of few minutes to dish up something hot and spicy, especially on cold winter evenings. I have a few packets of different kinds of pasta's stocked up in my pantry. I tried Basil Pesto Pasta earlier and it was too good! Italian cooking uses a lot of fresh herbs, garlic and olive oil. All these really make a difference to the dish. It does take a while for the Indian palate to adapt to this cuisine. What is most important is cooking the pasta well. When you drop pasta into a pot of boiling water, the starch granules on the surface of the pasta instantly swell up to their maximum volume and then pop. The starch rushes out and, for a brief time, the pasta's surface is sticky with this exuded starch. Eventually, most of this surface starch dissolves in the water and washes away, and the pasta surface becomes a soft solid. Here are some tips to keep in mind while cooking pa...

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