Cooking Italian: These five mistakes should be avoided

Italian cuisine is number 1 for many: pizza, pasta, desserts ... Only when trying to cook Italian recipes should you avoid a few mistakes.

Place pizza on top, make pasta yourself * or even try out ice cream recipes: Italian cuisine is incredibly diverse and invites you to cook many dishes.

Especially in the current times, when we cannot travel to Italy to enjoy the food there, we like to make the delicacies ourselves. There are countless recipes for

typical Italian dishes

such as pizza, pasta, meat specialties or desserts such as tiramisu or panna cotta.

However, if you want to create authentic Italian cuisine at home, here are some common

mistakes you should avoid

.

Not to mention such affronts to Italian cuisine, like stirring ketchup into tomato sauce.

The big question: how long should I cook pasta?

A much controversial topic arises when cooking pasta: “

al dente

” literally means “with a bite” - but how long should that be?

Most German hobby cooks overcook their pasta for fear of biting into pasta that is still hard.

However, this leads to a sloppy mass that has little to do with Italian enjoyment.

It is best to follow the manufacturer's instructions on the packaging.

Another good tip: Drain the pasta one minute before the cooking time specified by the manufacturer, but then let it cook in the sauce for another minute.

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Mistake in making pizza: You are using a rolling pin for the dough

Pizza dough

is easy to make at home and can even be frozen.

However, many pizza lovers do themselves no favors by rolling out the pizza dough with a rolling pin.

Professional chefs do not recommend this method because the roller will force any air out of the dough, which can lead to a chewy crust.

How to

roll out

pizza dough correctly and how Italians

roll out with

your

hands

, you will find

out

in this article: Do you use a rolling pin for your pizza dough?

Why this is a mistake.

Mistake in Italian cooking: prepare carbonara with cream

Spaghetti Carbonara

are one of the most popular Italian pasta dishes and with good reason: crispy bacon meets creamy sauce.

And it only takes about 20 minutes to prepare.

But: Hardly any Italian pasta sauce is as misunderstood as the carbonara.

German hobby cooks like to prepare them

with cream

.

According to the original Italian recipe, it doesn't belong there!

The delicious sauce gets its creaminess from the egg yolks alone.

You can find out how to prepare them correctly in this recipe for spaghetti carbonara.

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Best tomato sauce in the world: you only need these three ingredients.

No-go in Italian cuisine: They serve Parmesan with fish

Do you love pasta dishes with tuna or risotto with seafood?

Then you may have noticed on vacation or in an authentic Italian restaurant that the waiter

does not

serve

Parmesan with it

.

In Italian cuisine, fish is never combined with cheese!

The reason: the strong parmesan taste would overlay the aroma of fish and seafood.

Faux pas in Italian cooking: eating spaghetti with a spoon

Many Germans eat spaghetti as follows: With a fork, they wrap the noodles on a spoon, which they then bring to their mouths.

This is also considered a

violation of etiquette

in Italian cuisine

.

Real Italians simply wrap the spaghetti on the bottom of the plate.

Speaking of spaghetti: don't break it in half before boiling it in the water!

Spaghetti should stay on the plate for a long time, that's what makes it all.

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