Pasta may not be the most consumed food in the world but it surely is the most loved by people all around. With more than 600 known varieties of pasta and thousands of ways to prepare it, people never leave a chance to make pasta. From the books of the best Pasta maker in India, the most common way to make pasta is to get a sauce and roll your cooked pasta in it. And one such common yet amazing pasta sauce is Pesto.
Made with basil, garlic, oil, and pine nuts alongside grated hard cheese, the pesto sauce is easily the best tasting pasta and easiest to use pasta sauces. Why is it loved so much? What is the magic behind it? How to use it? This article explains in detail all that you need to know about the magic of pesto sauce in pasta.
The Real Taste of Pesto Pasta
Pesto sauce mainly tastes of basil and garlic mixed together with simple yet elegant hints of the hard cheese and pine nuts that it’s made with. It is all held together with olive oil, which completes the preparation. Because of all these ingredients, pesto pasta often does not need any other ingredient to be mixed in the preparation. All you need to do to get aninstant pasta made in pesto sauce is to cook the pasta and roll it in the pesto sauce. Sure you can garnish it with some cheese afterwards but that just it.
The pasta made with pesto will also taste like that, fresh, spiced, and nutty with a really smooth texture. However, there are people who think that because of less moisture content in the sauce, the pesto pasta may taste a little dry. A quick tip for this would be to add some of the pasta water into the sauce. This will add a lot of gloss to your pasta and also thin out the pesto a little bit, shall you prefer it that way. However, do not think that adding more olive oil will make thighs better. You might end up with an extra greasy pasta.
Other Quick Tips For Pesto Pasta
For the best results, use Spaghetti in pesto sauce, or any similar thin and long pasta. The texture on the spaghetti and its noodle like structure help in getting the flavours more spread out in the pasta.
Another great choice for pasta in pesto sauce is penne or ziti because they are hollow and hold more sauce in them.
When you are making pasta with pesto, try tossing the pasta in a bowl instead of a pot as the basil in the sauce may not react well to the heat. You may even end with blackened pesto. For that matter, do not also toss the pasta while it is still on the stove.
Pesto sauce does not usually come with salt pre-added into the mix. So you must salt the pasta while you are cooking it.
So there you go. Now you can make pesto pasta perfect every time, with either homemade pesto or store-bought pesto. Also, you can even flaunt your newly gained knowledge of Pesto sauce and its ingredients whenever you wish to.