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Why you don’t need to pour water from pasta: the little secret of chefs

'03.06.2021'

Source: Lifehacker

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During the boiling process, starch is released from the flour into the water. Therefore, after cooking pasta, a whitish turbid liquid remains. Most people pour it into the sink. But not the chef. They call it "liquid gold." After all, it is this muddy liquid that will help make the paste sauce thick and uniform. The Huffington Post told you exactly how to use it.

Very often, instead of the sauce on the plate is some kind of strange puddle. So it turns out, because water and oil in a mixture are stratified. That's when the liquid from the pasta comes in handy: it is needed for emulsification.

Emulsification is the process of combining into a homogeneous mixture of two liquids that would otherwise not be combined. The starch contained in the flour acts as an emulsifier and thickener. Just add a couple of tablespoons of pasta water to your sauce and mix slowly. As a result, you get a thick creamy consistency.

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For sauces, you can use water not only from pasta, but also from lentils, beans, brown rice. All of them have a lot of starch.

There is one more plus of using this liquid. If you do not rinse the pasta after boiling, it will leave a layer of starch on it, which will hold it together with the sauce. Then the taste of your pasta will be even more harmonious. This trick will work with any sauce: tomato sauce, cream sauce, alfredo, and even pesto.

There are several methods to preserve water after boiling:

  • As usual, throw the pasta in a colander, but pour the water into a bowl.
  • Cook in a special saucepan with a built-in colander to make the process easier. Just remove the colander and the water will remain in the pot.
  • Remove long pasta (spaghetti and fettuccine) from the water with special tongs.
  • Small pasta reach skimmer.

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