Pasta Processing Tips

   There are many ways to prepare delicious pasta dishes, ranging from how to boil pasta and pasta processing with various seasonings and add other complementary materials from vegetables, chicken, or seafood.
    But any additional mix, everything looks delicious to me.
maybe this time I wanted to share these simple tips in boiling pasta and make it look appealing to eat.

• Pasta its feels of springy when boiled until al dente, not over cooked and not crude so that was springy when bitten.  
• Boil the pasta in a lot of simmering water. The comparison with 2.5 liter of water to 250 gram of dry pasta. This method enables perfect and fluffy pasta does not stick together.  
• Wet pasta requiring 5 minutes of boiling, and 8-10 minutes for dried pasta. Lack of time is usually pasta will taste crude, if more pasta going soft and lose elasticity. 
• Add a little salt in boiling water for making of pasta taste savory and delicious. 
• To prevent falling when lifted from the pasta pot boiling, use a special spoon of seep pasta. 
• While hot, add a little olive oil, margarine or oil for the pasta does not stick together. 
• Mix the pasta with the sauce immediately as long as still hot. In this way, seasoning or sauce will be more pervasive and pasta does not stick together. 
• Serve immediately while warm, when the texture of pasta still looks so appetizing and does not become dry. 
• Store dried pasta in a sealed container and place in a cool, dry place. Dry pasta can last 6-12 months. For wet pasta should be stored in the refrigerator, wet pasta storage only lasts for 1 week in refrigerator.                                                                                                                                 

         

History of Pasta

Foods like pasta are often found in various places in the world since ancient times, especially in areas with a population that makes wheat and cereal as a main dish. Milled wheat was often cooked as a porridge or mashed into flour and made ​​bread. Pasta is the most likely alternative to porridge or bread, because pasta is a food preservation is made without the need to be cooked.

In Europe, the oldest written record of noodles similar food found in the Etruscan tomb decorations in central Italy from 400 BC. In China, noodles have known since 2000 BC based on the results of excavations at the site Lajia (western China), located on the banks of the Yellow River. Below the soil layer of thick loess soil at the dig site that has been damaged by earthquakes and floods ditermukan yellow noodles in a clay pot upside down. Noodles about half a meter long with a diameter of 3 millimeters. The analysis showed starch noodles made ​​from millet seeds.

 Pasta is a processed food that is used in Italian cuisine, made ​​from a mixture of flour, water, eggs, and salt to form a dough that can be formed into a variety of sizes and shapes. Pasta made ​​various dishes after cooking by boiling. In Indonesia, a popular type of pasta such as spaghetti, macaroni and lasagna.

In English, the pasta is a term for various types of cuisine with one of the main ingredients flavored pasta and sauce. Pasta comes from the Italian "pasta alimentare" which means the food dough. In broad terms, "paste" can mean all the dough like bread dough, pastry, or cake. In Italian, which means the pasta foods such as noodles called pastasciutta.

Pasta made ​​from semolina flour mill that is the result of durum wheat mixed eggs so little bright yellow, and when cooked properly will result in slightly chewy texture.

Type of Pasta

         Pasta so delicious as the dishes at home, using a simple ingredients and does not take a long time to cook it, Do you agree with me? but do you know? in fact there are so many names customized to the shape of pasta and pasta ingredients are used.
        Far as I know from some of the articles that I read, there are about 650 types of pasta in Italy, and is still going to grow again.
        Because they make new breakthroughs in terms of making pasta. below, may include some type of pasta that is already known and usually cooked as the dish at home.
 
1. Pasta sorted by size, the name of pasta is usually made ​​based on the form of pasta in Italian. such as on below :

Cannelloni
Cannelloni is a pasta like macaroni small. However, the shape cannelloni
resembles a small pipe. Usually served with tomato sauce and then baked.

Cavatelli
Cavatelli is a pasta shaped like small shells. Generally, cavatelli treated with a mixture of vegetables such as broccoli and tomatoes, can also add beans.

 

 Capellini
If you are familiar with the spaghetti, then Capellini is a form of pasta such as spaghetti, but are very thin as hair. Because the texture is very soft, then given the name of the angel hair. Pasta is served with a light sauce like olive oil or cheese.



 

Farfalle
Farfalle has a unique shape like a bow tie in tuxedo male. This paste is used for salad mix. Can also be processed with light sauces such as olive oil, cheese, and butter.


  

Ravioli
Ravioli is a pasta that looks like a pastel. Consists of two sheets of pasta which it can be filled. Its contents can be all kinds, from beef, chicken, mushrooms, cheese, until processed seafood.

 

Lasagna
Lasagna is a pasta shaped sheets which were collated and compiled content. Generally, has a seven-layer lasagna. Lasagna is usually filled with minced beef and mozzarella cheese.

Fettucini
Fettucini pasta which is shaped like a flat noodles, but slightly thicker. Fetuccini The most famous is the fettucini alfredo, fettucini is mixed with the sauce and added the shrimp.

 

Gnocchi
Gnocchi is a pasta made ​​of potato preparations. Boiled potatoes that have been destroyed as a mixer made ​​of flour. Gnocchi are generally served with tomato sauce.

 

Tortelloni
Pasta which is shaped like a dumpling content. Generally, tortelloni filled with ricotta cheese and herbs like spinach. Just like pasta in general, usually presenting tortelloni doused with tomato sauce.

 

Orecchiette
Small pasta shaped like a flat circular disc. Generally, two inches in diameter. Orecchiette is generally combined with vegetable sauce. Can be added to kidney beans and mushrooms.
  




  

Macaroni
Curved tubular pasta with hole in the middle. This is the type of pasta is most familiar to us specially in Indonesia, we usually find in the dish can be made ​​into soup or macaroni schootel.




  

Fusilli
Sometimes we called it with curly macaroni. Short and spiral shape. Usually treated with a cream sauce mixed with tomatoes and peas.



 

Pizzoccheri
This long buckwheat noodles are popular in northern Italy. Special pasta made ​​from buckwheat flour, wheat is also a type of corn called Saracen ('Grano Saraceno' in Italian). has a rough texture of pasta wheat is almost absent from Italian cuisine, but a perfect dish when mixed with potato, cabbage, butter, and cheese Valtellina Casera (also original Valtellina) to create a very unique dish.

 

Orzo pasta is a type of pasta made ​​in the form of a grain of rice.
orzo is the Italian word for "barley," as a reference to the size and shape of the pasta. You can also see the orzo called kritharaki, manestra, rosa marina, reiskornpasta, or pasta Pion Gallo.
orzo can be cooked as soup, baked in a casserole as well, such as peppers and squash. 






 2. Pasta also be sorted by color and flavor variants, the most famous is :

• black pasta (pasta Nera) colored with squid or cuttlefish ink, which turn black.
• green pasta (pasta verde) colored with spinach
• purple pasta (pasta violin) colored with tomatoes or a bit
• red pasta (pasta Rossa) colored with carrot
• pastaoranye (pasta arancione) colored with different varieties of squash and pumpkin

3. Non-wheat pasta
Pastes are specially created for those who are allergic to gluten, which material is in the flour, buckwheat pasta which is gluten-free pasta.

4. Pasta of healthy
pasta which is made from whole grains that are rich in fiber and contain lots of vitamins and minerals which the body needs.

5. Pasta that enriched
pasta usually served with additional cuts of meat and mozzarella cheese, many who enriched. how ? in the batter add cheese, herb, or classical italian material other. in Italy is known there Agnolotti pasta, pasta is enriched with ingredient which are called Mezzaluna.