Pasta dough is usually mixed with water. Pasta comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. It can be made in the form of tubes, straws, shells, stars, bows, feathers, elbows. In fact, in anything human imagination can dream up. It's worth noting right away that pasta is not spaghetti. And spaghetti, in Italian cooking, is long strands with no holes inside. In other words, spaghetti is a long vermicelli. Essentially, the word "pasta" can refer to any dough product that needs to be boiled in water (the question of how to cook pasta belongs to this same section). And cooking pasta is limited to that very boiling. Pasta means spaghetti, vermicelli and noodles. But! only for some people. In Italy, the word "pasta" is usually used only for flour products in the form of tubes hollow inside.
Pasta is an Italian word that can be translated both as "a dish of barley flour" and as "processed dough." Pasta is loved not only in Italy but also in the countries of East Asia. In China and Japan, people eat noodles quite actively, and in huge quantities. In the late country called the Soviet Union, in all the canteens — including school cafeterias and mess halls for military personnel — the most popular dish was navy-style pasta. Navy-style pasta is ordinary tubular pasta with ground meat. How do you cook pasta, or cook it deliciously? To start, put a pot of water on the stove (heating the water is an equally important step). When the water boils, salt it, and only then add the pasta. Pasta cooks very quickly, especially the imported kind. Ten minutes is plenty. If the pasta is good quality, there's no need to rinse it under the tap in a colander after boiling (on the question of how to cook spaghetti, it definitely shouldn't be rinsed after cooking). It's enough just to drain the water off the pasta and let it run off. After that, you can return the pasta to the same pot and drizzle a little vegetable oil over it. That way the pasta will taste even better. All pasta dishes, the recipes for them, and everything you can make from pasta are easy to find in this section.