Spaghetti

The flour used to make spaghetti is different from the flour we use in China, it is a kind of "durum wheat", so it can be cooked for a long time. Spaghetti is usually made from high-quality specialty durum wheat flour and eggs.

Durum wheat is the durum wheat that is the legal raw material for spaghetti, and it is characterized by high density, high protein, and high gluten, and the spaghetti made from it is yellow in color, and it is resistant to cooking and has a good texture. Therefore, authentic ingredients are important for pasta to have a good taste.

On the packaging of pasta, you can often see this Italian phrase "Pasta di Semola di Grano Duro", which literally means "pasta made from durum semolina", indicating that the pasta is made from durum semolina. which literally means "pasta made from durum semolina", indicating that durum wheat semolina is used. Of course, in addition to dried pasta, Italy also has fresh pasta, fresh pasta is usually made from plain flour with eggs and salt, freshly made and eaten, which is still very similar to Chinese pasta.

Shopping for pasta

The first thing to do is to shop for pasta based on the ingredients used to make it. Most dry pasta is made from durum wheat semolina with water. There are some tri-color pastas in which green pasta is made with spinach juice and red pasta is made with tomato juice.

There is also whole-wheat spaghetti, which is made from flour milled from unbranched durum wheat and is also dark brown in color rather than pale yellow.

Another type of pasta is gluten-free pasta, which has the (Gluten Free) logo on its packaging and is primarily intended for people who are gluten intolerant.

After choosing the pasta based on the ingredients, you can then prepare the different shapes of pasta by choosing from the sauces that will be served with the pasta, which can be summarized in a single sentence as follows: wide and thick sauces, light and light sauces.

Finally, the choice is based on the audience. If you are preparing pasta for your family's lunch or dinner, you can buy the most popular pasta shapes; if you are making pasta for young children, you can choose some fun shapes of pasta, such as alphabet pasta, rotelle pasta, and leaf pasta (Spighe), and so on.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Pasta