Lessons > How to Cook Pasta
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Lesson Overview
Pasta is one of the most loved dishes around the world. In Italy, eating a plate of pasta is a daily ritual – a plate of properly-cooked pasta that is. Remarkably, however, most people inadvertently have been eating improperly cooked pasta for most of their lives.
In this lesson, you will lear…
Click to expand...Lesson Objectives
At the end of this lesson you'll be able to:
- list the key essentials for cooking pasta
- cook pasta to perfection every time
- properly sauce pasta
- explain what al dente is and how it’s achieved
- match pasta sauce with specific pasta shapes for pasta recipes
Course Syllabus
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| 1. | Introduction: How to Cook Pasta Video Lesson |
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| 2. | Complete Your Self Assessment |
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| 3. | Pasta Cooking Essentials |
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| 4. | Cooking & Testing Dried, Extruded Pasta |
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| 5. | Cooking & Testing Laminated Pasta |
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| 6. | Draining Pasta |
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| 7. | How to Sauce Pasta |
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| 8. | Matching Sauces to Pasta |
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| 9. | Quality Olive Oils for Pasta |
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| 10. | Practice Activities & Recipes |
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| 11. | Lesson Quiz |
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Practice Recipes
A few of the practice recipes you'll learn in this lesson.
Prerequisites & Related Lessons
Please consider these additional lessons to support your learning and discovery. Some of these lessons are prerequisites that may help contextualize what you are learning and form a baseline of knowledge and skill. Other lessons are related and may help you explore next steps or dive deeper on a learning topic.
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11 Tasks
Task 1: Introduction: How to Cook Pasta Video Lesson
Task 2: Complete Your Self Assessment
Task 3: Pasta Cooking Essentials
Task 4: Cooking & Testing Dried, Extruded Pasta
Task 5: Cooking & Testing Laminated Pasta
Task 6: Draining Pasta
Task 7: How to Sauce Pasta
Task 8: Matching Sauces to Pasta
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