How to pre cook pasta

Pasta is a busy cook’s lifeline. Even more so when you can cook pasta ahead of time and have it ready and waiting in the fridge for a super quick meal.

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Pre-cooking pasta allows you to do the bulk of preparation before a dinner party. When party time rolls around, you only need to reheat the pasta with a quick plunge into boiling water. Restaurants use this technique to get pasta entrees to the table faster.

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This might seem simple to those of you who have been cooking for a while, but if you're new to cooking pasta or maybe your teens are learning how to cook, how to cook perfect spaghetti is a great first step to becoming a culinary master. Okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. I promise.

If pasta is on your dinner party menu (and it should be), use this trick to cook it ahead of time and have one less thing to worry about.

Serving pasta in a buffet-style setting is challenging; you need a chafing dish to keep it warm. While the chafing dish does a great job of ensuring hot pasta on demand, the constant heat can also dry the pasta out and make the pasta stick together.

Another time saver! I got this idea from my mother in law. I never knew you could do this. She does this all the time. No taste difference! When I was making noodles for spaghetti, I made 3 pounds total, 1 pound to use for our meal and 2 pounds to save for later. I simply put a pound in each freezer bag and threw it in the freezer. When I am ready for it, I will pull it out of the freezer, put the frozen noodles in a strainer, run hot water over them and they will be ready to eat!

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