How to Dry the Noodles for Meatless Lasagna

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Josiah Owen with Expert Village, and today we'll be talking about making meatless lasagna. Now, after we've cooked our pasta, we're going to strain it, immediately after, we want to pour cold water in here. What that's going to do is it's going to stop it from cooking, similar to blanching, because we don't want it to keep on cooking. What you do is drain that, and after it's cooled down, you want to dry off all of your lasagna. When you get all the noodles dry, you want to put them to the side. Now you're going to do this for all your noodles, get all the excess water off. And they should be easy to handle since we've already cooled them down. Make sure not to break any of the pieces. Just put these to the side until you need them. "