Preparing & Boiling Fettuccine for Homemade Pasta

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Learn about preparing and boiling the homemade pasta for a fettuccine alfredo recipe in this free Italian cooking video on making homemade semolina-based fettuccine.

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Preparing & Boiling Fettuccine for Homemade Pasta
Hi! I'm Louis Ortiz on behalf of Expert Village and we are back with the made from scratch Fettuccine, actually. As soon as it is cut out of the machine, I tend to toss it around in one of these pans with semolinas on it. This cooking time to boil this pasta is going to be just a fraction of the time that it takes you to do dry pasta simply because it is pretty much moist and limp as it is. One of the terms that you will hear a lot of is al dente. If you are thinking about it in those kinds of terms, it is cooked to the point where it is almost done and we are going to pull it out of the water so that it is still firm in the middle. We don't want to over cook the pasta and just make it mush, so we want to pull it out of the water until it is almost done at that point, so that is what that term means. So that's that, and there's our pile of Fettuccine and all I have behind me is a stock pot with some water that's got a nice boil on it. I've got some sea salt that I grounded in there and we are going to throw this pasta in there and pull it out and I will show you therefore and after product when we come back.

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Expert: Louis Ortiz is a professional chef instructor at a culinary institute. He has been working in the culinary industry for 10 years. Read More