All About Pasta
August 23rd, 2010 | Author: Admin
Do you know that there are 600 kinds of pasta in its home country, Italy? Let’s explore more deeply! Speaking of pasta, it must not be separated with Italy. It was from here that a kind of chewy noodles food was first popularized.
More than 600 kinds of pasta born from Marcopolo’s birthplace, and now spread almost all over the world. So not only pizza, mozzarella cheese, olive oil or just the famous, right?
History of Pasta
Until now, Italy is always associated with pasta. Whereas if judging from history, there is an opinion stating the pasta came from China. About which version is true, until now no one knows it for sure.
The Pasta Ingredients
Pasta is a product of semolina flour, durum varieties. Flour is then mixed with water and enriched with eggs. Only durum wheat type variety is suitable for making pasta. This is because gluten proteins contained in them is high and make the pasta dough is supple and elastic. The dough is then shaped and dried until its water level is 12%, must be stored a long time to be resistant.
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