Not Just Salt: What to Add to Water When Cooking Pasta - 3 Secret Additives for a Vibrant Taste

26.07.2024 07:17

How to cook pasta? Any cook knows the answer to this question. Even a beginner.

But how to perform this culinary procedure so that the result is not a standard side dish, but a truly appetizing dish?

Even many seasoned gourmets don’t know this.

But everything is also very simple! It is enough to use several common additives.

Yulia Arkhipova, an expert in the field of cooking for the online publication Belnovosti, a chef and fourth-class baker, spoke about this interesting technique.

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What additives should be used when cooking pasta?

Remember: what do you add to water when cooking pasta? Just salt?

In vain, because no one is stopping you from using additional “flavor enhancers.”

As soon as the liquid starts to bubble, the following should be thrown into it:

  • Bay leaf;
  • Peppercorns;
  • An onion cut in half.

As a result, the pasta will be cooked not in plain water, but in real broth.

This type of heat treatment will have a positive effect on the taste of the product.

The result will be an incredibly appetizing dish.

Just sprinkle it with cheese and eat it - and you will receive considerable gastronomic pleasure.

And if you season the cooked pasta with a delicious sauce, you will get a restaurant-quality dish.

Kurchev Anton Author: Kurchev Anton Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Julia Arkhipova Expert: Julia ArkhipovaExpert / Belnovosti