Spaghetti is a world famous kind of pasta. The appearance of spaghetti, we owe to the Italians. For the fact that this type of pasta is similar to pruning ropes, in Naples, where the first spaghetti was made, they were called spago (twine).
According to world standards, spaghetti - pasta with a length of at least 15 cm and a diameter of 0.2 cm.
All varieties of dishes with spaghetti or pesto are associated with various sauces and additives. In total there are more than 10 thousand recipes of dishes based on spaghetti. A significant part of their Italian origin. Each region of Italy has its own "special" dish with this wonderful product, the uniqueness of the taste depends on the additives: seafood is served to spaghetti on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, minced meat - in Siena, in Rome - tomato sauce , anchovies, olives and capers, and in Genoa - from garlic, sheep cheese and nuts.
Spaghetti has become a familiar dish in our kitchen. Perhaps the most common ingredient that serves as an additive is cheese. How to cook spaghetti with cheese so it's really tasty?
We offer a recipe for spaghetti with cheese, which can be served as a garnish for meat or poultry, and can be presented as a completely independent dish.
Spaghetti in Italian with cheese
Ingredients:
- pepper - 1 piece;
- eggplant - 1 piece;
- tomatoes - 5 pcs .;
- spaghetti - 400 g;
- cheese of hard varieties - 100 g;
- olive oil;
- basil - a few twigs.
Preparation of spaghetti with cheese
When cooking spaghetti, you must take into account that the weight of water should be twice as much as the weight of the product itself, so 400 g of pasta products need 800 ml of water. Put a saucepan of water on the fire. After boiling, prepare for cooking spaghetti. Usually the container in which you have to cook does not contain completely dry spaghetti. Therefore, in order not to break these wonderful products, we place spaghetti with one end in boiling water. When they soften, slightly deform them, moving further, and this operation is performed until the time when the spaghetti is not completely immersed in boiling water.
Softened macaroni are slightly salted and stir all the time, preventing them from sticking together. Fully spaghetti is ready in about 10 to 12 minutes. Throw them in a colander and rinse. Add olive oil in spaghetti, shaking them well.
Preparation of sauce
We cut the pepper into small pieces, fry with the addition of olive oil. Add eggplants, diced. Mixture of vegetables as a result of roasting should acquire a golden hue.
We cut the tomatoes and put them in other vegetables, keep them on fire until they soften. At the end of cooking, throw the sprigs of basil and remove the pan from the fire.
Spread the spaghetti on the dish, pouring grated cheese.
If you add a finely cut ham together with the cheese - the taste of the dish will be completely different. Dishes from spaghetti are interesting because the addition of just one ingredient gives the dish a special flavor, so with this product you can improvise, showing imagination and fiction!
Caloric content of spaghetti with cheese
For dietary nutrition, spaghetti is not a very suitable product. The highest caloric content is made by pasta, which is made from soft wheat varieties (they are comparable to bread). However, there are varieties on sale that can be consumed without fear of gaining kilograms - these are spaghetti made from durum wheat.
In 100 grams of boiled pasta, made from tverdosortovoy wheat, about 330 calories. Another 140 grams will be added due to butter and hard cheese. So, even with some weight problems, you can sometimes afford a small portion of spaghetti, especially since they cause a feeling of satiety for a long time.
We recommend taking full responsibility for the purchase of pasta,
Signs of good spaghetti:
- Have a light transparency and a yellowish tinge.
- The products are smooth, slightly shiny, there are no inclusions.
- There are no broken macaroni.
- Well bend, but they break with difficulty.
- In the process of cooking spaghetti, water retains transparency.
- Increase in size during cooking is very slight and does not require washing.