Soaking Pasta

 

On a blog post I did the other week about me eating pasta when I 'Cooked Once and Ate Twice', Happy Introvert commented on a way of preparing pasta that I had never heard of before.  So I decided that I would give it a go for myself.

You literally just put however much pasta you want to cook in a bowl, and then leave it to soak well covered in water for a couple of hours.  The amount of starch that comes out of the pasta is amazing, and I found myself giving it a rinse in fresh cold water before I actually put it on to cook.

Doing this shortens the cooking time by a few minutes, so as well as making the pasta more easily digestible and slightly healthier, and you are also saving money on fuel.

While it was cooking I found that the pasta didn't clump together at all, and once cooked I tasted it before adding any sauce to the pan and found it to be a better texture and slightly tastier.

Yes, this particular pasta meal looks boring, I was concentrating so much on the pasta that I forgot to drop my peas into the cooking water like I usually do.  It was a nice cheese sauce though.  😄

A few days later I decided to try it again with wholewheat spaghetti this time.

At first I was wondering what to put it into to soak, and then I realised it could just go into the central section of the sink.  It worked a treat.

Not as much starch seemed to come out of the brown pasta during soaking, but once cooked it was a still a better texture and somehow tastier.  I'll definitely be doing this from now on.

Thanks for the tip Happy Introvert.

Sue xx