Let’s be honest, we’ve all done it. You’re tired and you just came home from a long day, and your solution is to open up your pantry, grab the boring, mass produced pasta, dump some jarred marinara sauce on top of it, and call it a day. It will fill you up. Will it inspire you? No. It's just there. You're just there, on your phone, looking at things while you have your background meal.
You have to change. It's time to say goodbye to boring, dull food. You don't have to take an hour and a half and you don't have to be a gourmet chef to seriously step up your cooking. It's really easy to upgrade your pasta and it all comes down to the way you make and cook with your ingredients. Just by bringing premium Gustora Pasta into your life and changing your pasta cooking methods, you can take something that could have been boring and have a gourmet, vegetarian feast for dinner instead.
Why is your pasta boring? It comes down to the pasta.
Sticky pasta, mushy pasta, or pasta swimming in watery sauce. It's probably not your fault. It's likely the generic, mass produced pasta. Mass produced pasta uses Teflon or plastic molds during production that makes for a completely flat and shiny noodle, which looks nice and all in the box but is a culinary catastrophe. When you toss the flat noodle with your sauce, your ingredients don't cling to the smooth surface, and you're left with pasta at the bottom of your bowl and a pool of liquid where your sauce should be. Additionally, mass produced pasta also goes through a high temperature drying process that eliminates any natural fragrance of the grain and ruins its internal structure.
Gustora is a pasta game changer. Gustora makes its pasta in an old-school way. Made from 100% Durum Wheat Semolina and 100% purified water, it is 100% vegetarian and vegan. Here's what makes it special:
Authentic bronze dies: Instead of using plastic molds for the pasta shape, Gustora uses bronze molds to produce the shape of the pasta. Bronze molds are abrasive, making for a rough, matte, slightly chalky texture. This texture is your new best friend because your ingredients and oils are forced to stick to your pasta, making your sauce cling to every single forkful. Slow drying: Gustora takes its time with the slow food drying process at cooler, more natural temperatures, which creates an elastic noodle that maintains its structure even when perfectly al dente, as well as retaining the natural aroma of the durum wheat.
A delicious vegetarian meal with Gustora pasta. Put away the creams and try a fresh, bright, and vegetarian Gustora Fusilli with Charred Zucchini & Mint-Pistachio Pesto. The twists and ridges in the Gustora pasta are perfectly shaped to catch every single piece of this vibrantly flavored, rough pesto.
Ingredients:
250g Gustora Fusilli
1 medium zucchini (halved and sliced thinly)
3 T Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 cloves Garlic
1 C Fresh Mint leaves
½ C toasted pistachios (shelled)
½ fresh lemon
Salt and black pepper to taste
Instructions:
The pasta: Get your large pot of water to a rolling boil with about 2 T of salt ( it should taste like the sea!) . Drop in the Gustora Fusilli and let it boil for 9-10 minutes. Right before you drain it, reserve 1 cup of the starchy pasta water, as this will be your key to a glossy sauce!
The pesto: Combine mint leaves, pistachios, garlic, lemon, 2 T of olive oil, salt, and pepper in a mini food processor. Pulse until combined, creating a rustic green pesto.
The zucchini: In a wide skillet, heat 1 T of olive oil in a pan over high heat. Add the sliced zucchini in a single layer and sear for 2 minutes on each side until nicely charred and caramelized. Reduce heat to low.
The Upgrade: Add the drained pasta and the mint pesto directly into the skillet with the charred zucchini. Add ¼ C of the pasta water to the skillet.
The Toss: Toss everything for 60 seconds until you see the water create a coating on the pasta due to the starches in the water. It should stick beautifully to your bronze cut pasta. Sprinkle with chopped pistachios and cracked black pepper, serve, and enjoy.
Refusing to eat boring food again doesn't mean you have to completely redo your lifestyle, it means respecting your traditions and eating ingredients in a smart way. By changing out your cheap store brand pasta to a quality, bronze-cut pasta like Gustora, you are doing all the work for you and giving your dinner the upgrade it deserves.
