Generally, it takes 2.5 liters (10 cup) of water to cook 200g (about two people, one man and one woman) of spaghetti.
3. First put the water into the pot and boil it over medium heat.
4. Add salt, the amount is 1% water, so if it is 2.5 liters of water, you need to put 25g (about 5 teaspoons) of salt. When cooking spaghetti, adding salt can quickly tighten the surface of noodles, and it is not easy to overcook and lose chewing power. And the noodles will be salty, which can be coordinated with the sauce afterwards. )
Although the amount of salt seems a lot, enough salt is very important for cooking spaghetti.
5. When the salt is completely dissolved, put the spaghetti into the pot. If you cook long spaghetti, it will spread radially in the pot.
6. When all the noodles sink, stir from the bottom of the pot to prevent the noodles from sticking together. (Remember not to cover the pot. )
When cooking spaghetti, the water must be kept boiling.
7. Determine the cooking time according to the cooking time mark on the spaghetti wrapping paper. For example, the cooking time written on the wrapping paper is 10 minute, but what we do is:
Cold pasta: 10 minutes
When finished, pour in the sauce: 9 minutes.
When finished, add it into the prepared sauce pan and cook 1 min: 8 minutes.
The cooking time of this demonstration spaghetti is 13 minutes.
8. It's time to test the hardness of pasta. Take a noodle out of the pot and pinch it with your fingers. If you can see the white core in the middle of the section, it means that the noodles are cooked.
9. Once you decide that the noodles are cooked, you should cook them immediately. Pour the noodles into the prepared sieve.
10. If it is cooked cold spaghetti, immediately pour the filtered spaghetti into the prepared ice water. After the noodles are cooled, filter them with a sieve.
If you want to cook it with sauce, you must make the sauce when the spaghetti is cooked. Cooked noodles should be quickly put into the pot with sauce and copied for a long time, otherwise the noodles will become soft and not delicious.
If the cooked pasta needs to be left for a while before use, in order to avoid sticking, a small amount of extra virgin olive oil can be added to the drained pasta.