{"id":2820,"date":"2013-03-29T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2015-06-08T14:33:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T09:03:29","slug":"how-to-cook-perfect-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/how-to-cook-perfect-pasta","title":{"rendered":"How to Cook the Perfect Pasta"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2821\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/how-to-cook-perfect-pasta\/attachment\/pasta-red\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2821\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2821 size-my-custom-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/Pasta-Red-665x445.jpg\" alt=\"Fusilli in Red Sauce\" width=\"665\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/Pasta-Red-665x445.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/Pasta-Red-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/Pasta-Red-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/Pasta-Red.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quest for The Perfect Pasta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Quest for the perfect pasta begins with a statement and a commitment to it. The Statement: It would be a full of flavor\u00a0 dish, which is definitely not sum of its parts and is rather a unified whole dish in itself. Commitment, every ingredient must talk to all others and transfer its flavor. This decided, sauce and water become carriers of flavor. It is important to cook pasta in a tomato soup of sorts, essentially few herbs, salt, olives, bell peppers and tomato puree and water make for the stock to boil pasta in. This water itself becomes a base for the sauce. Once we do this part, all ingredients are introduced to other flavors and are well tempered.<\/p>\n<p>Another common oversight which happens is with portion of vegetables and meat to be added. There is no hard and fast rule on what should be the ratio between vegetables, meat and pasta per se. However, it is important to know whether you are making an\u00a0entr\u00e9e\u00a0or a salad. If you are making an\u00a0entr\u00e9e,\u00a0count your veggies and meat, flavor is already inside the spirals and there is no need for an overkill.\u00a0 If you keep ingredients other than pasta to four, it is perfect. With pasta more the merrier thought in respective to add-ons seldom works.<\/p>\n<p>Do take care while mixing sauce and pasta, using a tong to mix it delicately is always a better option than mixing it with a big kitchen spoon or for that matter a ladle. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Recipes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/creamy-pasta-in-tomato-sauce\">Creamy Pasta In Tomato Sauce Recipe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/macaroni-pasta-salad\">Macaroni Pasta Salad<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/healthy-pasta-in-vegetable-sauce\">Healthy Pasta In Vegetable Sauce Recipe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/penne-pasta-salad\">Penne Pasta Salad<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/pasta-salad\">Pasta Salad Recipe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/vegetable-pasta-in-creamy-white-sauce\">Vegetable Pasta Recipe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/meditarranean-pasta-goes-well-with-indians\">Mediterranean Pasta Goes Well With Indians<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/pastay-di-sabji\">Pastay Di Sabji<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/masala-macaroni\">Masala Macaroni Recipe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quest for the perfect pasta begins with a statement and a commitment to it. The Statement: It would be a full of flavor\u00a0 dish, which is definitely not sum of its parts and is rather a unified whole dish in itself. Commitment, every ingredient must talk to all others and transfer its flavor. This decided, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3525,3513,62,3509,3508,3482,3507,3504,3529],"tags":[80],"class_list":{"0":"post-2820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-continental","8":"category-festival-and-celebration-cuisines","9":"category-food","10":"category-main-course","11":"category-starters","12":"category-vegetarian","13":"category-italian","14":"category-non-vegetarian","15":"category-kids-special","16":"tag-pasta-recipes"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44274,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/44274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}