With this dressing tip, you turn the simplest spaghetti dish into a gourmet plate! Here is the secret of Italian chefs to present pasta elegantly.
Fans of The Lady and the Tramp know it well: There is nothing more romantic than a plate of spaghetti. As long as it is well presented! Alas, the last time you wanted to tempt your other half with spaghetti, it didn’t quite have the desired effect. You had put your heart into the work and into the pot, your pasta was more than appetizing. But once on the plate, they no longer resembled anything. Instead of the lovely swirl of spaghetti you envisioned, you served him some sort of hodgepodge of pasta on a plate splattered with splashes of tomato sauce. Moreover, his comment was revealing: “It’s … unstructured!”, he exclaimed upon spotting the dish. In short, you were a flop. Don’t dwell on this failure! Simone Zanoni, chef at the George restaurant at the Four Seasons George V hotel in Paris, gave us the professional gesture we need to know to prepare a plate of pasta worthy of a Michelin restaurant. How to bluff your partner in no time Spaghetti, tagliatelle, linguine, pappardelle, all these long pastas are prepared in the same way in Italian restaurants: they form a beautiful little nest in the hollow of the plate. The latter allows you to collect the sauce and thus enjoy the pasta more easily, without the risk of splashing it everywhere with every bite. To achieve this result, you need a minimum of material: “To present pasta like a chef, you need a large ladle and tongsexplains Simone Zanoni in her Instagram video. These are the secret tools for successful trainingOnce you have these two elements, assembling the pasta is a piece of cake!
You simply take a portion of pasta for one person and turn it into the hole in the ladle with the tongs. After three or four turns, the dough swirl forms. All you have to do is push it carefully into a deep plate and cover it all with sauce. A little grated parmesan, a few basil leaves and b(p)asta così! This spaghetti swirl is sure to make your loved one giddy…
No more unstructured plates, give way to Italian elegance and controlled simplicity. So get out your ladle and tongs and let the magic happen. In no time you will be ready to turn heads and taste buds.
