How to Prepare Restaurant-Like Pasta Dishes at Home?





We all love pasta and love cooking it at our homes, but often miss that elegance and taste of restaurant pasta despite following the recipe religiously. We buy the best of ingredients along with pasta from the best Italian pasta company in India, but still can’t get our hands on the dish. We know what has been missing and bring to you some tips that will make your pasta taste like one of those Italian restaurants' amazing dish. 

Let's See How to Prepare  Restaurant-Like Pasta Dishes at Home:

Choose Right Utensils

Image result for utensils used in pasta cookingFirst things, first! Kitchen tools are important for cooking, and each of them has a different role to play. This is why we have a variety of kitchen tools for different dishes. It is important to boil pasta in a deep pan and toss it in a frying pan for consistent and proper cooking. Toss pasta with chopsticks or tongs for mixing the sauce over pasta evenly. These utensils are available in every kitchen and using the right ones will make the difference.


Save Pasta Water
Don’t throw away the pasta water; use it for your sauce. The starch of the pasta in the water helps to add smooth texture, saltiness, and richness to the sauce. Pasta water combines the pasta and sauce in harmony because of its starchy texture and helps in getting the right consistency of the sauce. Use less water for getting right starchy and salty pasta water.

The Basic Sauce Recipe

Pasta sauce does not need a lot of ingredients, chopping and grinding. It is a quick, tasty recipe with minimum ingredients. A simple pasta sauce requires 1-2 aromatics, 1-2 salty ingredients, 2 tablespoons of fatty ingredients, half-cup pasta water, and half-cup of ingredient to add acidic flavour. And voila! You will have a restaurant like pasta sauce at your home.

Cook Al Dente
We all know that al dente is the right time to take out pasta out from boiling water, but the right time is to pull just before that. The pasta will simmer with sauce in the pan, making it even softer. Therefore, to maintain al dente consistency, it is advisable to boil pasta just before al dente.

Temper the Aromatics Right
Simply adding aromatics to pasta gives flavours in particular bites. The right way to combine flavours in a delicious dish is to sauté them in olive oil. Sauté garlic and chillies in olive oil before cooking the sauce for infusing flavours in the whole dish.

Let Pasta Cook in the Sauce
Don't simply put your pasta and sauce in a bowl and serve. Let the pasta soak the flavours and aroma of sauce for making a dish that tingles your taste buds.

Garnish Your Dish
It is important to garnish your dish for a restaurant-like dish and flavour. Garnish it with a hint of lemon, olive oil for a shiny and silky texture, basil or rosemary for flavours, or lots of cheese for the ever loved taste.

 

Many whole wheat pasta brands in India are selling a variety of pasta and other ingredients like sauces and ketchup to help you make your flavoursome pasta at home easy. With these tips, impress your family with a delightful plate of pasta and be a kitchen pro. 




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