How to cook the pasta in the pan so that they do not stick together, step by step recipe photos

What could be easier than to boil the pasta in the pan? But very often hostesses traps catch: Pasta (horns, shells) cling to each other, forming a lump of goo. To avoid this, you need to know a few secrets that will always serve up delicious pasta, which perfectly keep their shape and do not stick together. Sharing knowledge, which gave me a grandmother. Take a note on my step by step recipe decorated with photos, filmed to illustrate.

So, we need:

- pasta (horns) - 150 gram;

- Water - 300 ml;

. - salt (sea or plain) - 1 tsp;

- butter - 15 grams.

How to cook the pasta in a pan

Before cooking, it is necessary to choose the pasta to cook. It can be any kind of pasta products such as lasagne, sprocket wheel, shells and so on. Today I cooked horns, which are very fond of my family.

In a saucepan pour need 300 milliliters of water and send it to the fire. Fire play at maximum power to boil water in a matter of minutes. Because often we cook pasta, when you need something quickly and do not have time to cook for a long time to mess around in the kitchen. After boiling, add a spoonful of salt. I use sea salt, which is also a source of iodine, it is very necessary for our body. This point is very important, since the salt is reacted with boiling water, adding salt so only in a boiling water.

In salt water pour horns or other pasta. Stir with a spoon and on high heat to wait until the water boils again.

Then, reduce the heat to a minimum. Horns mix well to starch to be allocated are distributed uniformly in water and pasta are not stuck. Boil the pasta in the pan takes about five minutes.

Next, turn off the heat and leave under a closed lid, for a couple of minutes. Opening the lid, you can see that the pasta swollen and increased in volume. Usually it looks as shown in the photo:

It is necessary to simply fold the horns in a colander, glass to all the liquid. Rinse under running cold water to remove starch, which may dazzle the pasta. The washing of pasta should not be long, so they do not strongly cooled. After all served cold pasta to the table not the best idea. Therefore, you need to wash a few seconds, that is enough.

Return the pasta to the pan, without liquid, adding a knob of butter. Horns stir until the butter has dissolved, and they will be oiled and delicious. You can replace butter with vegetable, based on their personal taste preferences.

The whole process of proper cooking pasta takes less than ten minutes and is very convenient.

Serve horns sprocket wheel, seashells and other pasta can be with meat, cheese, ketchup, sausages and so on.

Knowing how to cook pasta, they always have turn out very tender and tasty. Enjoy your appetite and let the pasta always turn out perfectly!