Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Nov. 2010
The present term has several uses in our language, although the most famous is linked to the gastronomic field to designate one of the most popular and famous foods in the whole world ...
Food made from flour that is widely consumed throughout the world
The name of pasta is the one used to designate a type of food made based on some type of flour, this being its main ingredient, in combination with liquids such as Water, oil or eggs, flavorings or colors.
Pasta gets its name from the fact that, before being worked, cooked and consumed, its shape is that of a more or less elastic, soft, tender and very noble pasta.
Types of pasta and ways of cooking
Pasta can be made either into noodles, like the famous spaghetti, or into stuffed pasta, like ravioli or agnolottis, capelettis, to name some of the most widely consumed stuffed pasta.
This food is cooked in boiling water; generally, noodle packages have the recommended number of cooking minutes printed on their packaging. And the same happens with stuffed pasta, those who make them suggest to the
consumer the ideal cooking minutes depending on the ingredients they contain.Each diner is different and therefore there will be different tastes when it comes to cooking pasta, one of the points The most common is the so-called al dente, which implies a cooked pasta, but firm, that is, it presents firmness not hardness. There are many people who prefer pasta cooked this way, while there are others who prefer to let it cook a little longer and not be so firm.
Today pasta is one of the most important and popular dishes of any type of diet, there are even commercial establishments that are dedicated exclusively to its elaboration and consumer sales, and also restaurants that specialize in this type of food and offer their avid pasta diners an infinite number of proposals, combinations, among others.
Unlike what happens with others food Like meat, pasta is a very inexpensive and easy to make type of food. By having cheap and accessible ingredients, pasta is part of the diet of all social classes, from the most humble to the wealthiest. The difference will lie in the type of filling or sauce with which it is accompanied, elements that can completely change the final flavor of the dish, and of course also the costs.
It will not be the same cost to eat a plate of noodles with butter than to do it accompanied by a rich sauce, which of course will increase the final cost.
Stuffed pastas also tend to have a higher cost compared to traditional dry or fresh noodles.
origins
Pasta is one of the oldest foods in the world and although its origin is usually attributed or linked to the Italians (great masters on the subject), pasta as preparation Alimentary was created in the Far East, from where it was brought by Marco Polo XIII.
Pasta can also be made of very different ingredients, for example it is wheat flour that is used most frequently, but also Asians tend to make their pasta dishes with rice flour, an element that they produce and find with much more ease. Noodles or semolina pasta, and even whole wheat, are all possibilities that complete the currently available pasta scenario.
But there are other uses for this term that we will describe below ...
Other uses of the term
The cardboard made from waste paper and also shredded is called pulp, the famous paper pulp.
Also the word designates the cover of the books.
On the other hand, it is usually used in the language current to refer to character or ability of a person, if there is someone who proves to be good at something, a homework, we will hear people say that it is good pasta, or on the contrary, they will talk about bad pasta for dancing, for example.
And in some Spanish-speaking regions the word is used as a synonym for money, for bills. "My godfather has made a lot of money this year with his business."
Pasta Themes