With so many sizes and shapes of pasta, coupled with great recipes, you can serve pasta every day for a year and never make it the same way twice! Whether you want something elegant or casual, for two or 20, pasta is perfect. Also pasta is gaining popularity in India but there seems to be a serious defect with the way Indians are eating pasta.
Being one of the most popular dishes made in Italy worldwide, pasta stands as a complementary name for the country. But eating pasta stil l goes with some misconceptions, which need to be removed. Contrary to the popular belief, pasta is not a staple diet of Italians; though it is one of the food items often consumed. Principally it is taken only four times a week i.e. out of total 14 meals, 10 meals are not pasta for sure. It is not a complete food in itself. That is why it is consumed along with starters, or a pasta recipe can accompany tea or coffee for an exception. Sometimes one can detect pasta as an important constituent of a salad, soup and even in a vegetable recipe.
With changing times pasta-eating habits have also changed, which literally shake up the Italian food connoisseurs. Now, pasta has become a single course meal! Pasta is sometimes treated like a fast food; people gulp it during their lunch break just like pizza. It does not have many calories. It is only carbohydrate: 80 percent of pasta is carbohydrate and low in sugar. Thus 100 grams of dry pasta becomes 180-190 grams and sugar content goes up to 20 gram on preparation.
But for a pasta lover these are just scientific facts, which do not make any difference towards satisfying his desire for good quality and deliciously cooked pasta.
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