How to cook the pasta not to stick together

Purchase for making high-quality pasta. Products of good quality have a uniform color, slightly shiny, slightly translucent surface. In the package there should be no crumbs and pieces of pasta.

Take for cooking a large, deep pan with thick walls. Pour water into it at the rate of 1 liter per 100 grams of pasta: in a large volume of water the pasta will not stick together. Put on fire a pan and wait until the water boils.

Salt water and pour it in a little vegetable oil. Put the pasta in boiling salted water, and they should be dropped in the center of the pan. Fire take, it is necessary that the boiling process was restored as quickly as possible.

After boiling, stir the pasta so that they separated from the vessel walls and from each other. Cook pasta with the lid open, stir them again in a few minutes. Add some salt to them anymore.

In the process of cooking, follow the cooking time indicated on the package, but it can vary depending on the amount of pasta and water, the intensity of the flame, the hardness of the water. So they need to try. Some people like pasta cooked in Italian "al dente" (underdone), while others prefer a dish cooked in the traditional way.

Do not allow the digestion of the pasta, in this case the dish will turn out sticky. When the pasta is cooked, drain: use a colander or just slightly cover the pan, and pour the liquid. Do not rinse the pasta, they get crumbly.

Pour in cooked pasta a little butter or oil and mix well. Give them a few minutes to stand and stir again. While pasta is cooling, they can be stirred a few times, then they will not stick together.