SHOPPING LIST: Cooking Skills: Pasta 1, Chapter 1 (Know Your Pasta)

Pasta: buy the smallest packets. You will use every shape again in this course. For the experiments, one packet of wholewheat penne and, if you can find it, one bronze-cut pasta.

Pasta with butter and parmesan (1 portion)
[ ] 75 g dried penne or spaghetti
[ ] 1 litre water
[ ] 1 tsp salt
[ ] 15 g butter
[ ] 15 g parmesan, finely grated
[ ] 1 pinch black pepper

The shape tasting plate (1 plate)
[ ] 30 g dried spaghetti
[ ] 30 g dried penne
[ ] 30 g dried fusilli
[ ] 30 g dried farfalle
[ ] 30 g dried conchiglie (medium shells)
[ ] 2.5 litres water, split between the pans (500 ml each)
[ ] 1 pinch salt per pan
[ ] 1 tbsp olive oil, for tossing

One sauce, two shapes (2 small portions)
[ ] 75 g dried spaghetti
[ ] 75 g dried fusilli
[ ] 200 ml tomato passata (for both)
[ ] 2 tsp olive oil
[ ] 1 garlic clove, crushed
[ ] 4 basil leaves, torn
[ ] 1 pinch salt and sugar

For the experiments
[ ] 100 g spaghetti and 1 tsp salt (salted vs unsalted)
[ ] 50 g white penne and 50 g wholewheat penne
[ ] A little butter and parmesan for tasting
[ ] Optional: a standard and a bronze-cut pasta of the same shape