The pasta tastes better?

Pasta can be safely equated in terms of distribution, the popularity and demand for such products as potatoes and rice. They are included in the daily diet of any average family. Pasta can make a tasty garnish or serve them as a separate dishes with various sauces, cook casseroles and even desserts. But what still tastier pasta?

Today, pasta is a product of international and gave it to the world Italy, like pizza, spaghetti and dessert Tiramisu. This country, called "the first garden of Europe", is considered the birthplace of pasta, but similar products in the cuisines of different countries of the world are much earlier than the pasta has gained its worldwide fame. In Russian cuisine is dumplings and gnocchi in the Eastern rice and egg noodles, etc.

As the "wheat sticks", many dishes with their use, are prepared everywhere - originally from Italy, the same, but in each country the recipes are processed differently, depending on local culinary traditions. So, Italian pasta Bolognese in Russia turned into a noodlesoup, and it is not the only example. However, there are recognized pasta dishes, are regarded as the most delicious. So let's figure out how to cook pasta, so they get tastier?

First of all note: in order pasta dishes were tasty, pleasing to the stomach and not "grieved" figure, you need to choose. Buy pasta only from durum wheat - usually they are a little more expensive than those that are made from soft wheat varieties. In such pasta a lot of vitamins and protein, during their regular consumption of the organism appears cholesterol, and weight is not increased. Good pasta from durum wheat should be smooth, Golden or cream color, with whitish and dark spots. If the packet is found grains of flour and pasta are whitish or unnatural yellow color, without inclusions, or only with white inclusions, rough - it is better not to buy, if you want to cook delicious and not boiled dish, and care about their figure.

The second factor making delicious pasta dishes - the correct use of different kinds. Thus, large shells and cannelloni (pasta tubes) better stuff for salads fit the pretty little ribbons, horns, shells and spirals are usually used for side dishes, and to make casseroles and desserts better with short small tubes.

Whatever pasta dish you cooked, or otherwise you would need to boil. If you follow the rule "per 100g of pasta - 1 l of water and not to cook them too long time, they just can't be unsuccessful. Italians believe that the pasta should be slightly undercooked - so-best appear their taste and useful properties.

Add to the pasta you everything - meat, fish, vegetables, canned foods, cheese, etc. Traditional dish, one of the most delicious choices of pasta are in our country pasta nautically.

Recipe of pasta nautically with minced meat

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You will need: 200 g of boiled macaroni, 100-150 g of minced meat (chicken, home or beef), ? onions, pepper, salt, olive/butter.

How to cook pasta nautically. This dish is very simple: in a pan with butter fried first chopped onion, then add the minced meat, all salted and pepper, fried or stewed until tender, add cooked pasta and all this olive or butter and mix.

This traditional recipe of pasta with meat, you can enhance and improve: a good way is to add dried or fresh chopped Basil, if minced chicken - new flavours of the dish will add nutmeg, and, of course, to fill the finished dish can chopped tomatoes and grated cheese. Instead of meat you can make this dish with chopped meat or even fish - there is no limit to perfection, the basic recipe of pasta nautically can be transformed almost beyond recognition, using the favorite products and keeping the main stages in the preparation of this dish.

Very popular and very loved by children all sorts of casseroles pasta - meat, vegetables, sweet mushroom. Technology cooking pasta casseroles simple: pasta boiled until cooked/semi-cooked, mixed with additional ingredients (mushrooms, onions, meat, fish, chicken, offal, and so on), or sweet additive (cheese, cherry, cream cheese - various curds, fruits and berries) are filled, whipped with milk or cream, egg and baked in the oven. Savoury pudding on top is always covered with a layer of grated cheese.

Recipe sweet casserole of macaroni and cheese

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You will need: 400 g cheese, 100 g of dry vermicelli, 150 g sour cream, 50 g jam, 2 eggs, 1 tsp. sugar and crushed crackers, additional egg for coating casserole.

How to cook a casserole of macaroni. Until tender in salted water to boil the noodles. Cut the cheese into the meat grinder, mix with pounded sugar with egg yolks (you can add vanilla sugar), add the pasta, and then separately frothed egg whites, stir, put in a greased and sprinkled with breadcrumbs shape, coat with sour cream mixed with egg, until Browning and bake. Serve with mixed with jam sour cream (1-2tbsp.l. jam on ? Cup sour cream).

One of the most delicious and impressive dish stuffed pasta.

The recipe of pasta, stuffed with ham, mushrooms and vegetables

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You will need: 700 g of mushrooms, 400 g of ham, 400 g cheese, 1 package of large pasta shells, 2 sweet red pepper, 1 onion, 1 jar of tomato paste, 3 tbsp chopped parsley, 2 tsp. ground nutmeg, salt.

How to make stuffed pasta. Lower shells in boiling salted water until soft boil, put in a colander, allow to cool. Finely chop the mushrooms, onions, peppers, ham, RUB the cheese. Heat the pan with oil, put onion, mushrooms and pepper, continue cooking 5 minutes with the lid, put the parsley, add the nutmeg, tomato puree, pepper and salt and simmer until the evaporation of the liquid, add the ham, half of the cheese, cook until it is melted. Stuff the cooked mixture and put the shells in a greased form, sprinkle with remaining cheese, put it in 15-20 minutes in the preheated oven and bake until Browning.

The filling can be any other meat, only vegetables without ham - invent and experiment boldly, this dish is hard to make money. Fish fans can take for stuffing fresh fish, onions and cheese, fry the finely sliced fish fillet with onion, add a little cheese to stuff this mass is boiled until soft pasta, put in shape, pour sour cream mixed with a small amount of tomato puree, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake it all in the oven until Golden brown cheese.

So, answering the question what the most delicious pasta, you can come to a natural conclusion - all, the main thing is to cook them with your favorite products. Oh and not to forget about tomatoes (or something tomato in principle) and cheese!

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