With the right recipe, cooking a bowl of pasta can be child’s play. It doesn’t matter what the noodle dish is, a common step in all recipes is boiling the noodles. Put a pinch of salt in a pot of water, bring to a boil, add the pasta and when the pasta is done, strain the noodles and move on to the next step. The noodle water will be discarded or forgotten after the noodles are boiled. Why don’t we use this versatile ingredient in our cooking? By eliminating leftover pasta water, we not only waste resources, but also lose the advantage of adding pasta water to our food! That’s why we’ve found five easy ways to add pasta water to your everyday dishes.
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Here are 5 easy ways to use leftover pasta water:
1. Using Pasta Sauce To Cook Pasta Sauce
This is the simplest and smartest way to use pasta water! Once you have your pasta in your red or white sauce option, add pasta water to bind the sauce to the pasta. The starch and salt in the noodles act as a great binder and thickener, making your noodles delicious and greasy.
Add pasta water to make a smooth dough
2. Add pasta water to pizza and bread
Pasta juice, which has starch and salt, is a great ingredient for making pizza dough or bread. In general, dough requires a bit of salt, by adding water to pasta you can skip this step. Another benefit is that the starch in the noodles helps the dough to stick together beautifully.
3. Use pasta water to soak dishes and beans
To make our favorite rajma chawal, chole bhature or dal makhani, the first step to making any delicious dish is to soak our sauce or beans. Use leftover noodle water to soak the dal in. This helps you avoid wasting water. Make sure you cook the dishes with the soaking water for extra flavor.
Place vegetables over boiling pasta to steam.
4. Steamed Vegetables In Pasta Nước
You can easily reuse noodle juice to steam vegetables! It’s a simple way to save water without much effort. Another economical idea is to simply steam the vegetables while the noodles are boiling by placing the vegetable container on top of the boiling noodles. This way you can also save energy!
5. Making Soup With Pasta Water
Another handy way to use noodle broth is to use it to make soups. All you need to do is when you add normal water to soup recipes, replace it with pasta water. That’s it! Using pasta water in the soup will combine the soup and make the soup soft and velvety.
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If you know of any more helpful ways to reuse pasta water, let us know in the comments!
