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Unexpected ingredients in the sauce will make the palette of flavors in your dishes even more interesting and richer.
If you are advised to pour coffee or beer into pasta to make it tastier, you are unlikely to believe it and you will be right. This combination will ruin both food and drinks. But when you add these unexpected ingredients to your pasta sauce, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the results. The Pixel Inform website talks about how to make pasta sauce with coffee or beer.
How to Make Coffee Tomato Pasta Sauce
Coffee tomato sauce is very easy to prepare:
- brew strong espresso;
- heat a little vegetable or butter in a saucepan;
- add tomato paste, a little water or broth and mix well;
- simmer for one or two minutes over low heat;
- add salt, finely chopped garlic and your favorite spices, simmer for another two minutes;
- pour coffee into the sauce (a tablespoon of coffee is enough for one serving of pasta), stir and turn off the heat after a minute.
Pour the prepared sauce over the cooked pasta. If your tomato paste is too acidic, adding coffee will neutralize the excess acid, so you don’t have to add sugar to the sauce.
How to make milk beer sauce with cheese and bacon for pasta
Ingredients
- butter – 3 tbsp. l.;
- flour – 3 tbsp. l.;
- beer – 1 glass;
- milk – 1 glass;
- hard cheese (cheddar or parmesan) – 180 g;
- salt, ground black pepper – to taste;
- bacon – 8 slices.
Preparation
- Heat a frying pan with butter, add flour and fry it for about a minute, stirring constantly.
- Mix milk and beer and pour into pan. Simmer, stirring, for a couple of minutes until the mixture thickens.
- Grate the cheese and finely chop the bacon with a knife.
- Place the cheese and bacon in the pan and stir.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Simmer the sauce for another 1-2 minutes until the cheese has melted.
- Pour the finished sauce over the cooked pasta and serve.
- Adding beer to the sauce will give it a very unusual and pleasant taste that you will definitely like.
