Boiling Water for Meat Lasagna

Video Transcript

"Hi. This is Rich Buccola and today on behalf of Expert Village we are going to make lasagna. We're going to get a high flame under about 5 quarts of water in our Dutch oven and we're going to add some salt and some olive oil. About a pinch, just a little handful of salt, and olive oil. We're going to use about 2 tablespoons of olive oil in this water. The reason why is we don't want it to stick. Get this to a rolling boil before you add the pasta. That's the trick. Always have your water continuously boiling before you add pasta. It also will help prevent it from sticking. Whatever you're labeling says on your lasagna to how long it should cook. I usually go 1 minute before because I like it a little al dente. And don't forget it's going to cook in your oven. So we have a rolling boil here and that's exactly what you want on your stove."