We all tend to pour pasta water down the drain as soon as we’re done cooking our dish, but do you know you’re actually throwing away liquid gold by doing this? Pasta water comes with many creative uses that never crossed your mind, and here are the best things you can do with it.
Better Sauce
In addition to being used to cook your pasta, the leftover water can do wonders for your pasta sauces. Just a splash of pasta water can loosen thick sauces and make them much tastier.
Tasty Dough
You can also use your leftover pasta water to give your dough a unique taste, since the water retains some of the flavors and starch from the pasta, especially when making bread and pizza.
Base For Soups
Pasta water can do wonders for your plant-based soups. Dissolve a stock cube in your leftover water at least a day before cooking your soup and you’ll be amazed by the way it enhances the flavor of your stock.
Boling Rice
Rice is another dish that can benefit from your leftover pasta water. You can simply use it in place of the regular tap water to cook your rice because it will take its taste to a whole new level.
