Italian cuisine that is not Italian
All over the world, Italian cuisine is synonymous with excellence. But among all the products of our land, the best known dishes are certainly pizza and pasta. In fact, Italian restaurants are widespread in all countries of the world, from South Africa to Canada via the Far East. Very often, however, the dishes prepared outside Italy, of Italian they have only the name and to see them you shudder.
The pasta pie
One of the mistakes that are most commonly made in preparing pasta, for example, is in the long cooking. Out of Italy, pasta is often cooked like this. You take a large pot, throw in the pasta and then light the fire. Cooking can go on for hours, until you get a kind of glue. The product obtained can then be easily cut into slices like a cake, strictly without salt and without oil.
Italian cuisine and very al dente pasta
Another very effective way to cook pasta according to non-Italians is to throw the raw pasta in a pan with some butter. In fact, the pasta remains al dente. Indeed, crunchy. To remedy the problem of hardness, cooking can continue for a long time. Patience if it burns a little, it will have a good barbecue aroma that will bond perfectly with the ketchup.
Microwave and Italian cuisine
But perhaps the most used way to cook pasta is through a microwave oven. Undoubtedly it is a fast system that takes cooking from six hours to a few minutes, but the result is a soup with post-atomic references very often accompanied by a persistent aroma of chemical nut. However, this system presents a risk. Scientists are still trying to understand why spaghetti has a tendency to explode in the oven.
Pizza is an art
Even pizza has its troubles when it is prepared away from his home. Sometimes the problem lies in the ingredients used for the pasta. Sometimes it can be too loose, risking to literally melt in the oven. Other times it can be too crunchy, making it an evening version of the cereal breakfast. Apart from pasta, a good foreign pizza always retains a certain art. Abstract art.
A hug to all the Italians scattered around the world from a Bergamo native who has lived in Ecuador for 32 years.