How to Cook Pasta WITHOUT Water

Explore Guides

Start the Guide ›

How to Cook Pasta WITHOUT Water

How to cook a yummy pasta in risotto style - I know it sounds crazy, but trust me. Amount for 1 hungry person!

Giulia (waiting for Mr) Darcy

6.2k Views

Step 1 of 8

As most of Italian recipes, this is a very simple dish. High quality ingredients make a difference! If available, choose DeCecco pasta or Barilla (secondly).

Step 2 of 8

If you don't manage to find an Italian pasta, when picking it in the shop, consider that the longer time it requires to be cooked (never less than 11/12 mins), the best quality is.

Step 3 of 8

Use a 20(or so)cm wide saucepan. Put the oil and the garlic. Let it brown 2/3 mins, low heat.

Step 4 of 8

Add the tomato sauce (I had a homemade one) - watch out for splashes!! It has to be very liquid. Add basil, salt and carrot, leave garlic inside. Cover and let it cook 10 mins, low heat.

Step 5 of 8

Add pasta. I chose Conchiglioni (big shells) but any kind of 'short pasta' will make it. Cook it 15-20 mins, low heat. Stir every now and again. Don't let it overcook :)

Step 6 of 8

The sauce will thicken and reduce quickly. This is how it looks when it's done. Pasta absorbs the tomato sauce liquid: more tasty than water, ha? Take off the carrot, basil and, above all!, garlic :)

Step 7 of 8

Grate as much Parmesan as you like...

Step 8 of 8

...and that's it! BUON APPETITO! :)

You're Done

Follow this author & check out some other guides!

Giulia (waiting for Mr) Darcy

Italy

An Italian wannabe architect, photographer, globe-trotter, with a strong passion for cooking and DIY :) Please stop making me starving with your guides!!

Keep Exploring

Home

How to Create a Gallery Wall

by Tina Bland

483

5.7k

Home

How to Get Water Directly to the Roots

by Build.com

276

8.2k

DIY

How to Make a Paper Flower From Scraps of Paper

by Ellen Husband

264

2.2k

Start Over

363

12 Comments

Supplies

Embed

David Bartlett

Brooke Jones

Mathilda Flores

Sweden

Lindsay Hargis

Haley McDaniel

Victor Moreno

Kim Philip

Chicago, Illinois

yuji kawamura

JAPAN

Rosie Shen

Janelle Sonya Forema...

LONDON TOWN♣

Evodie Clerger

Kate Doeppe

Jackie Hunsucker

Teri Rose

Raya 313

Megan Jones

Stephanie Alarcon

Los Angeles

Blake Greene

Favian Cano

iPhone: 36.960030,-120.1...

Jonathan Miot

Maryland

Tomoko Udagawa

Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido, J...

Budgie Byrne

Adam Field

Hailsham, East Sussex

Brooke Forrest

Somerset, Wisconsin

Kelly Robertson

down South ;)

2 Garlic cloves

2 Tablespoons Olive Oil

600 Mililiters Tomato Sauce

2 Pinches Salt

90 Grams Pasta

Parmesan

1 Carrot (optional)

Fresh Basil Leaves (optional)

@Dave: garlic, basil and the carrot are actually supposed to be there just to add flavour to the tomato sauce, not to be eaten! That's why you should have removed them at step n.6. Also, there is no need to chop them, as you are going to throw all the flavours. Anyway…! 😊

Giulia (waiting for Mr) Darcy (author) 5 months ago

Delicious!

💜 ❤💋ℓᗩυrᗩ💋❤ 💜 5 months ago

Just tried this. Since I had no garlic around I chopped up an onion. I should have also added the diced carrot at that point since it was still a bit tough at the end. Otherwise, mmmmmm :). My one and a half year old enjoyed it thoroughly too.

Dave Weinberg 5 months ago

I will try this, looks nice... Thanks:)

Furkan İbraguş 5 months ago

A good way not to waste water!

Briana Kessler 7 months ago

A clever and easy trick to give a go to the most common and daily pasta we have ;)

Giulia (waiting for Mr) Darcy (author) 9 months ago

This is nice 😄

O I 9 months ago

It's so easy, thank you

Boris Borealis 10 months ago

Gotta love the simplicity of it

Scott Feeney 11 months ago

@Gustav: you mean like a proper risotto, letting sauté the rice alone before adding stock?

Giulia (waiting for Mr) Darcy (author) 11 months ago

Love the tomato sauce

San Ng last year

Yum :p

Adam Field last year

Be first to comment on Step 1.

Nope. It's a matter of quality, as I said. Just try and you'll see!

Giulia (waiting for Mr) Darcy (author) 11 months ago

Is it because if the grain? Therefore you could argue that integral grains are better just because they take longer to cook..

Tomas Bermudez last year

Who told you that? Prob against getting It 'al dente' right?

Tomas Bermudez last year

Be first to comment on Step 3.

I'll do it :) Thanks a lot ❤

Katy Moon last year

Right... it's a kind of old tradition few families still have. Around mid August, in some countryside homes, families get together, buy tons of tomatoes, get up at dawn, wash the tom., cut them, cook, mash, pour the sauce into bottles and boil to store them for a long time. It was a torture when I was a kid :) -- Let's say, as soon as there are gonna be seasonal tomatoes, I'll write down a guide to make a quick one portion of fresh tomatoes sauce!

Giulia (waiting for Mr) Darcy (author) last year

How u do the tomato sauce homemade ?

Katy Moon last year

Be first to comment on Step 5.

Be first to comment on Step 6.

Be first to comment on Step 7.

Give it a try then! 😉

Giulia (waiting for Mr) Darcy (author) 5 months ago