Preparation of dishes in the double boiler has many advantages before other various ways. On couple food turns out healthier and useful. For the majority of types of products the double boiler helps to keep better vitamins and minerals when cooking. One more difference of the double boiler from usual thermal treatment in a pan will become the fact that here food won't burn and won't be digested.
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Instruction
1. Pasta usually doesn't recommend to cook in the double boiler as the pasta which are especially made of soft grades of wheat have property to boil soft and stick together. It is necessary to train them in the double boiler only in a special bowl into which water is poured. It allows to heat first of all not pasta, and liquid in which you place pasta. After that in water pasta begin to cook already.
2. The only difference from a traditional way of cooking of pasta is that it occurs not in the boiling water, and at a certain temperature, a component about 75-85 °C. Water in a bowl for pasta has to cover completely pasta and even to be higher than them at least on one centimeter that they were boiled thoroughly entirely.
3. With pasta it is necessary to add a little olive or sunflower oil for prevention of pasting of pasta to water and a salt teaspoon for improvement of taste.
4. As soon as you cover a bowl, you can turn on the double boiler - preparation process will begin at once. Its duration depends on what pasta you decide to make in such a way. But, anyway, approximate time at preparation in the double boiler of pasta is about 15-20 minutes.
5. As soon as preparation time approaches end and it will be time to get pasta, don't forget them to wash with warm water. It will remove unnecessary starch and will improve their taste and appearance.