Cook Pasta Like Risotto for Faster One-Pot Meals [Food]

 

 

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Cook Pasta Like Risotto for Faster One-Pot Meals [Food]

via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 5/25/10

If waiting for water to boil is your least favorite part of pasta, you'll want to try "pasotto." It's cooking pasta like risotto, giving you a faster-cooking meal that punches flavor into noodles and keeps noodles and sauce in one pot.

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In the example recipe provided by Sophie Brickman, based on a method used by famed chef Alain Ducasse, you toast your pasta (the non-string-noodle kind) in olive oil, then add garlic, onions, and leeks, and then add white wine and chicken stock slowly to the pan, letting it all soak into the noodles as you go. After adding your protein, the starches let off by the pasta and the remaining olive oil have created a sauce right in the pan, and your noodles have remained firm and thoroughly infused with flavor.

We've previously suggested methods of cooking all kinds of pasta with less water and in a pressure cooker, which also save time and liquid. "Pasotto," however, is a whole different style, one with the added benefit of beefing up your simple-dinner repertoire.

'Pasotto': The Pasta That Is Cooked Like Risotto [The Atlantic Food Channel]

 

 

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