“Al dente” is an internationally used Italian cooking term that may refer to cooked pasta or rice, or less commonly beans and even vegetables. It is used when the food is still hard but not firm, so that one can bite on the pasta or rice. “Al dente” literally means “to the tooth” or “to the bite”, meaning that the pasta needs to be chewed because of its firmness. But how to cook pasta al dente?
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