Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Pasta recipe that can be made in 5/10 minutes ?

I have the pasta and tomatoes, salt/pepper, cornPasta recipe that can be made in 5/10 minutes ?
If you have 2 pans, put about an inch of water in one pan and bring it to boil (should take 2-3 mins) and boil a kettle full of water (do it at the same time), when that boils pour the water into the pan with water... add pasta to cook. Doing this alone can save about 10 minutes.


When the pasta cooking, chop tomatoes. Fry the corn first (I assume canned corns?) then add tomatoes, season to taste.


When pasta ready, drain, add the 'sauce'.Pasta recipe that can be made in 5/10 minutes ?
Try these ,,,





GARLIC %26amp; OIL PASTA (AGLIO E OLIO)





Per Person





INGREDIENTS





1 clove of garlic


1 tablespoon of olive oil


125ml of water


录 of a teaspoon of salt


100g of spaghetti


Ground pepper to taste





METHOD





Peel the garlic and chop it into tiny pieces.





Put the oil into a frying pan on a moderate heat. Add the garlic. Fry the garlic for about 5 minutes until it is brown, stirring to stop it sticking.





Put the water and salt into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Put the pasta into the water. Stir it to stop it sticking to the bottom of the pan. Bring back to the boil and continue to cook, stirring to stop it sticking.





Begin testing the pasta about 2 minutes before the packet instructions say it should be done. The best way to judge if pasta is cooked is to bite it. This is tricky, because if you fish out a bit and stick in your mouth you may burn your mouth on the boiling water. Wait a bit and blow on it, then bite it. If it is hard it needs longer. If it is chewy (or 鈥榓l dente鈥? Italian for 鈥榯o the teeth鈥? it is ready. If it is soft it is overcooked.





Drain the pasta in a sieve or colander. Season with the pepper.





Always 鈥榯ake the pasta to the sauce鈥? Put the pasta in the pan with the sauce and stir until thoroughly coated.





ADDITIONS %26amp; ALTERNATIVES





Use any other long thin plain pasta, like linguine (thin and flat), tagliolini (very thin and flat) or spaghettini (very thin and round), instead of spaghetti.





For Garlic %26amp; Parsley Pasta, add 25g per person of fresh parsley. Wash, shake dry and finely chop the parsley. Add the parsley just before serving.





For Garlic %26amp; Anchovy Pasta, add 13g (录 of a 50g tin) per person of anchovy fillets in olive oil. If you are using the whole tin, use the oil from this to fry the garlic. Add the anchovies to the garlic after the 5 minutes and mash up until smooth.





For Garlic, Anchovy %26amp; Olive Pasta, add 2 or 3 pitted black olives and 2 or 3 pitted green olives per person to the Garlic %26amp; Anchovy Pasta just before serving.





TIPS





If you use enough water, add the pasta when the water is boiling, stir the pasta and don鈥檛 wander off (鈥楪li spaghetti amano la compagnia鈥?or 鈥榮paghetti loves company鈥? and don鈥檛 overcook it, adding olive oil to the water to stop it sticking is totally unnecessary.





PS. I have seen this dish on a restaurant menu for 拢8.50!
Cook the pasta in boiling salted water, drain when soft but not too soft.


Add butter or oil (a small amount), add salt %26amp; pepper, tomatoes,corn iff desired %26amp; cheese-whatever type you like! Anything else that takes your fancy can be added as well, fresh herbs are great.
It takes about 20 minutes just to cook the pasta, but I like to heat up a can of tomatoes and dump my cooked pasta in them with a little butter (okay a LOT) of butter, salt and pepper.
fry your tomatoes and corn and spices...cook your pasta and throw it into the mix....friend itlalian pasta! (would really help if you could have some garlic)

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