The most experienced housewives around the world already know that you can easily cook tasty and healthy dishes every day! To do this, they do not use any fabulous spells. It is enough to purchase one of the models of double boiler in the kitchen (a wide assortment allows you to choose the equipment to your taste and wallet).
However, it is not always worthwhile to run to the store for a double boiler. If you like to steam, you love, but don’t do it as often as, for example, your mother or neighbor, make a double boiler yourself. Many of us probably remember the Soviet version of the double boiler: a large pot of water, an iron plate with holes, and a lid on top. Everything. No need to once again try to invent a bicycle.
Everyone loves pasta. Even those who have long and firmly dieted. Fortunately, now even the most cautious can buy pasta from durum wheat in the supermarket and not worry about the usefulness and diet.
The pasta in a double boiler is something completely new, not yet fully tested. Most people, most likely, still do not even suspect about how to cook pasta in a double boiler. However, it is very simple and does not require too much effort from the hostess.
For the preparation of pasta you will need: the pasta itself (it can be horns, and shells, and springs, and spirals, etc.), vegetable oil, salt. And a double boiler.
It must be recognized that the manufacturers of steamers strongly do not recommend steaming pasta, some cereals, and legumes.
Pay attention to the fact that if pasta is made from soft wheat varieties, they, with a probability of 99 percent, will boil in a double boiler and stick together. Take care that households are not left without dinner - look for harder varieties (this is always stated on the packaging of pasta). Also, for cooking, the choice of large pasta will be the most correct, which will not allow the pasta to turn into one continuous mass.
So, how to cook pasta in a double boiler. Pour enough water into the bottom of the double boiler. The pasta itself is cooked in a special bowl for rice. Pour them with water in a bowl so that there is more water by a centimeter or two. There, immediately add oil and salt.
Do not forget to cover the double boiler. Cook pasta in a double boiler for about 18 to 22 minutes.
Experienced housewives are strongly advised to wash pasta. Yes, if they are from durum wheat, then during normal cooking they do not require washing, but, despite this, it is better to rinse once again and get rid of excess starch.
You can serve pasta on the table with cheese, herbs, ketchup. There are many ways to serve pasta, and all of them are quite interesting and informative.
Of course, there are several recipes on how to cook pasta in a double boiler. If we have already described the cooking technology, it is worthwhile to dwell on additional details.
For example, one recipe is called "Pasta in Sour Cream Spinach Sauce." Do you already know that spinach is a storehouse of useful things?
So, everything is very simple: boil pasta for a couple, rinse and chop the spinach, sauté it for a couple of minutes in butter, add sour cream to the spinach, pepper and salt. Pasta goes to the stew-pan, everything is mixed, served to the happy inhabitants and guests of the house.
According to another recipe, pasta in a double boiler can be cooked with chicken. To do this, it is better to boil the meat in advance slightly (but not until fully cooked), cut into small pieces, steamed together with pasta and seasonings.
In pasta dishes, you can add all kinds of cheese, a variety of herbs, garlic, add any spices and seasonings. As a decoration, a tomato or sweet pepper can come in handy.
Yes, you cannot cook pasta in a double boiler. But don't the rules exist to break them? Good appetite!