Spaghetti in a slow cooker with a sauce of herbs and garlic

Fast, simple, budget-friendly, from ordinary products! Spaghetti in a slow cooker is a recipe that will help out when you don't have the opportunity to cook on the stove — in a hostel, in the country. In a slow cooker, you can not only cook pasta, but also prepare a fragrant sauce from greens.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 13 % 10 g
Fats 13 % 10 g
Carbohydrates 74 % 56 g
353 kcal
GI: 4 / 96 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 25 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to cook spaghetti in a slow cooker? Prepare the products. You will need a very small set — in addition to pasta, take any greens you like or which are available and garlic. I have parsley and dill, basil is perfect. You can reduce the amount of garlic depending on your taste.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    First of all, prepare the sauce. How to make sauce? Wash the greens under running water, dry them well with paper towels and chop them finely.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel and chop the garlic in any way — with a knife or through a press.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    In the slow cooker, select the mode suitable for frying (Frying, Baking or Stewing), pour in olive oil. Instead of olive oil, you can take any vegetable suitable for frying. Add garlic and herbs. Fry them for 5 minutes, stirring, with the lid open. Add salt to the sauce to taste.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Transfer the sauce to a separate container.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Pour water into the bowl of the slow cooker. Bring it to a boil in a suitable mode (Pasta, Cooking, Steaming). Add salt, add spaghetti. Cook with the lid closed for 5-6 minutes. Then drain the water, tossing the spaghetti in a colander and transfer them back to the bowl. Add the sauce and warm the pasta with it, stirring, for another 2-3 minutes. Serve immediately. Enjoy your meal!

For the first time I cooked pasta in a slow cooker, so I slightly miscalculated the time, and they turned out to be soft. In fact, the pasta should be slightly undercooked. Our guide in Italy told me this secret. They don't serve boiled soft pasta there. It should be slightly firm, then they do not get better from it, because a lot of calories are consumed during its digestion.

Keep in mind that the cooking time and mode are indicated approximately in the recipe. All slow cookers work differently and even the same models of the same manufacturer may have their own characteristics. Before you start cooking a new dish for you in a slow cooker, carefully study the instructions for it, and then in practice try to cook dishes that are familiar to you first, and then new ones, choosing the mode and time individually for your own technique. 

How to cook pasta properly, how to cook pasta al dente, how to choose a quality product to avoid disappointment and much more, read the article "Pasta and pasta - the subtleties of choice and secrets of cooking" .

Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper). 

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Dill greens - 38   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Spaghetti - 338   kcal/100g

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