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When the pasta leaves the dies it has the moisture content of 31%. The final desired moisture of the dried pasta is about 12%, in order for the pasta to be rigid and have a long storage life. The drying process is slightly different for long and short pastas, but in general, pasta is exposed to hot air to dehydrate the pasta.
Spaghetti aglio e olio (Italian: [spaˈɡetti ˈaʎʎo e ˈɔːljo]; lit. ' spaghetti [with] garlic and oil ') is a pasta dish typical of the city of Naples.Its popularity can be attributed to it being simple to prepare and the fact that it makes use of inexpensive, readily available ingredients that have long shelf lives in a pantry.
' to the tooth ' [1]) pasta or rice is cooked to be firm to the bite. [2] [3] [4] The term also extends to firmly-cooked vegetables. [5] In contemporary Italian cooking, it is considered to be the ideal consistency for pasta and involves a brief cooking time. [6] [7] Molto al dente is the Italian term for slightly undercooked pasta. [2] [8]
Pomodoro means 'tomato' in Italian. [1] More specifically, pomodoro is a univerbation of pomo ('apple') + d ('of') + oro ('gold'), [2] possibly owing to the fact that the first varieties of tomatoes arriving in Europe and spreading from Spain to Italy and North Africa were yellow, with the earliest attestation (of the archaic plural form pomi d'oro) going back to Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1544).
Filindeu in broth. Filindeu (Sardinian: su filindeu) is a rare type of pasta from the Barbagia region of Sardinia. [1] It is made by pulling and folding semolina dough into very thin threads, which are laid in three layers on a tray called a fundu and dried to form textile-like sheets.
The first written record of pasta with tomato sauce can be found in the 1790 cookbook L'Apicio Moderno by Roman chef Francesco Leonardi. [ 9 ] The amatriciana recipe became increasingly famous in Rome over the 19th and early 20th centuries, due to the centuries-old connection [ 10 ] between Rome and Amatrice. [ 11 ]
Pasta is believed to have developed independently in Italy and is a staple food of Italian cuisine, [1] [2] with evidence of Etruscans making pasta as early as 400 BCE in Italy. [3] [4] Pastas are divided into two broad categories: dried (Italian: pasta secca) and fresh (Italian: pasta fresca).
La Biblia en pasta (Spanish for "The Bible in pulp paper", a Spanish idiom for something hard and difficult) is a 1984 Spanish comedy film directed by Manuel Summers. It is a humorous version of some episodes from the Old Testament .