Main courses using spaghetti are widelyare common because they are quick to prepare, tasty, healthy and nutritious. Italian-style dinner is affordable for almost any family, and by adding an ingredient each time, you can cook a virtually new dish. A little experimentation, and your cookbook will be filled with new pasta masterpieces, for example, spaghetti with mushrooms or with cheese.

How to cook spaghetti

First, a few words about how to cookspaghetti. It would seem that there is nothing complicated about it? Put water on the fire, boil it, add salt, cook the pasta - and that's it. But no! After all, spaghetti is not an ordinary side dish, but a full-fledged dish, seasoned with sauce. We will now tell you how to properly prepare this base. First of all, decide on the amount of spaghetti. Sometimes the recipe contains such a clause, and sometimes it does not. What to do in these cases? If spaghetti is your main (or even only) dish, then take them at the rate of 100 grams per person. If this is just a prelude to dinner, then you can limit yourself to 50 grams. Now let's start choosing cooking utensils. Of course, ideally, you should use special dishes for spaghetti - rectangular and of the appropriate length. However, if you do not have one, you can take a regular large saucepan (two to three liters) with a wide bottom. Fill it with water two-thirds of the way and bring the water to a boil. Salt it and put the dry spaghetti in there, but do not break it under any circumstances — Italians do not do this at all! In just a few seconds, the part in the water will become soft, and you will be able to put it deeper, folding it a little. This way, you will be able to put all the spaghetti in the saucepan without damaging its structure. When the spaghetti boils, you can reduce the heat a little, but do not leave the kitchen under any circumstances, otherwise you can forget about it and simply ruin the dish. Do not forget to stir the pasta regularly, as this prevents it from sticking to each other. The spaghetti can be considered ready when it reaches the state of “al dente”, or “to the tooth”. You can determine this by cutting one pasta - there will be a small dark hard spot inside. However, we are not going to waste time on this! You can do it easier: reduce the cooking time by one minute compared to what is indicated on the pack. In general, in the very near future you will learn to determine by eye the moment of the onset of "al dente". It is very important not to overcook the spaghetti, because they reach the condition already in the colander, cooking in their own steam. And a few more useful tips:

• Should I add vegetable oil?It depends on your own taste. In fact, the spaghetti will not stick together if you take a quality product and there is enough space for it in the pan. The main thing is - do not forget to stir it, and everything will be "in order".
• Do not pour water into the sink, which is left from spaghetti. You may need it, for example, if the sauce is too thick or spicy.
• Should I wash spaghetti? This action will be superfluous. It is best to immediately spread them on plates and add the sauce, but if you do not have such an opportunity, then you can add olive or butter to them. In the event that you needed to warm up the already spaghetti in a colander, you can simply beat them with boiling water.
• To serve this dish on a table, use warm plates: they will preserve the heat of the spaghetti and help them stay tasty and attractive for a longer time.

A quick recipe for spaghetti with mushrooms

Cooking time for spaghetti with mushrooms in thisoption - about half an hour. If you are expecting guests, simply double the amount of products - then a company of six people will have something to treat. The recipe includes the following ingredients:

• 0.5 kg of any mushrooms;
• several bulbs of onions;
• butter;
• greenery - for decoration;

Finely chop the onion and mushrooms, then fry them.in butter until done. This will make the onions and mushrooms golden, and the mushroom sauce will have a light creamy flavor. If you don't like butter, you can replace it with any vegetable oil. You can lay out the pasta in a ring, placing the sauce inside. Decorating the finished dish with herbs or pieces of fresh vegetables will make it even more appetizing. This is the recipe for simple and delicious pasta with mushrooms.

Spaghetti with mushrooms in tomato sauce

Typically, a recipe for spaghetti with mushrooms includesbutter or cream. If your soul wants something more unusual, treat yourself to this original and delicious dish. At the same time, it is as easy to prepare as any other spaghetti. So, the sauce recipe includes:

• 300 g of champignons;
• 4-5 tomatoes;
• 1 onion bulb;
• 2 tablespoons of tomato paste or sauce;
• 1 teaspoon of sugar;
• 1-2 tablespoons of red or white dry wine;
• vegetable oil;
• salt and pepper - to taste;

Peel and finely chop the onion.Wash, dry and slice the mushrooms. Chop the peeled garlic and washed greens. Heat a spoon of vegetable oil in a saucepan and fry the onion with half of the greens and garlic. After three to four minutes of stirring occasionally, add the mushrooms to the mixture and fry for about eight more minutes. Wash the tomatoes, peel them and chop them in a blender. Add them to the mushrooms and simmer over low heat for about fifteen minutes. Mix the resulting mixture well with the tomato sauce in the saucepan, pour in the wine and stir again. Add sugar, salt and let it simmer for about two minutes over high heat. Then reduce the heat, cover the saucepan with a lid and simmer the sauce for another ten minutes over low heat. Done! Add the remaining greens and garlic to the dish, and you can serve the sauce with spaghetti to the table.

Spaghetti with mushrooms and squid in creamy cheese sauce

Each of our new recipes is more exotic than the previous one.This time we want to surprise you with an unusual combination of seafood with cheese and cream. You can use this recipe as an alternative holiday dish or if you just want to please your household with something new and original. To prepare it, you will need:

• 250 ml cream;
• 1 onion;
• 100 g of champignons;
• 1 cup chicken broth;
• 3 squids;
• 70 g of Parmesan;
• butter;
• green onions - for decoration;

Chop the onion and mushrooms.Lightly fry the onion in butter. Add the mushrooms after about two minutes and fry the mixture until done. Pour in the cream and chicken broth, stir and bring the sauce to a boil. Peel the squid, cut into rings and add to the sauce. Heat them over low heat for three minutes and remove from the stove. Put the freshly cooked pasta on plates, add the sauce and sprinkle the dish with grated cheese. Decorate it with chopped onion on top and serve. So, spaghetti is an ideal dish for the whole family. There is no one who would not love it: decorated with cheese or diluted with squid, it always brings a dose of pleasure and enjoyment to the person eating it. And with what an appetite children gobble up spaghetti! You should not deprive them of this pleasure. We recommend reading:

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