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★★★★★ Cooking time: 25 minutes, Preparation: 5 minutes + Hot Cook: 20 minutes
If boiling pasta is a hassle for you, don’t miss this! Even when you don’t have the energy to cook, you can easily make delicious pasta with tomato sauce in just a few minutes. There is no need to boil a large pot of water to cook pasta. Instead, just put the hard pasta into the Hot Cook pot before boiling. The key to the flavor is salt. I used the amount of salt recommended by Ms. Kazuyo Katsuma.
There are times when boiling a large pot of water to boil pasta is too much work. In such cases, we recommend this recipe.
Put the hard pasta into the Hot Cook pot before boiling. At that time, fold the pasta in half by hand and place it in the inner pot.
In this way, the pasta is only one-half of the original length, so it will not be too short to eat.
If you really want to eat it after twisting the pasta around your fork in a traditional way, it might be better to boil it separately, even if it is too much to do. However, this cooking method is excellent when you don’t have much energy to cook, so please try the one-half the length pasta.
The key to the flavor is salt. For this recipe, I used the amount of salt recommended by Ms. Kazuyo Katsuma. The amount of salt advised by Ms. Kazuyo Katsuma is “0.6% (=0.006) salt to the weight of the ingredients and water.
In this tomato sauce pasta, the weight of the ingredients used for two servings is about 900g, so the amount of “salt” used for seasoning is about 5.0g (= about 900g X 0.006).
WHAT IS HOT COOK？
Hot Cook is Japanese popular cookware, waterless automatic cooking pot series, made by SHARP. Just put the ingredients in the pot and press the switch to automatically prepare a variety of dishes.
HOT COOK 1.6L size (for 2-4 people), Latest model with a fluorine-coated inner pot
This article introduces recipes using the Hot Cook, which has become an indispensable part of our home.
Hot Cook Recipe [Tomato Sauce Pasta] One Point Advice
- The amount of salt in this recipe is 6% of the total weight of the ingredients: pasta, canned tomatoes, onions, and water.
- Fold the pasta in half and put it in the inner pot. Place the pasta in a sandwich with canned tomatoes.
- If the finished pasta is still firm, close the lid of the Hot Cook again and let it stand for 5 minutes.
Hot Cook Recipe [Tomato Sauce Pasta] Ingredients: 2 people
- Pasta: 200g (boil for 7 minutes)
- Canned tomatoes: 1 can (450g)
- Onion, sliced thinly: 1/2 piece (about 100g)
- Sausage: 1 or 2 strips (A little bacon is also OK)
- Garlic, grated: 1 teaspoon (Bottled or tube-style garlic is fine)
- Olive oil: 1 tablespoon
- Salt: about 5.0g
- Water: 100ml
Hot Cook Recipe [Tomato Sauce Pasta] How to make
- Thinly slice the onions.
- Cut the sausage into thin slices.
Put all the onions, sausage, 1/2 of canned tomatoes, and olive oil into the inner pot.
Next, fold the pasta in half by hand.
Finally, add the remaining 1/2 can of canned tomatoes, 1 teaspoon of garlic, 5.0 grams of salt, and 100 ml of water.
Use the canned tomatoes to hold the pasta in place.
Put 100g of water into an empty can of the canned tomatoes and shake it gently to remove the remaining tomatoes from the inside of the can into the water, then put it into the inner pot.
Select a menu => Search by category => Noodles => Neapolitan-style pasta => Start cooking => Start
Pasta with tomato sauce is made using the “Neapolitan-style pasta” of the Hot Cook menu.
When you hear the finishing chime, open the lid, mix it up, and serve the pasta straight from the inner pot on a plate.
I used “9-minute boil pasta” to make this dish, which turned out to be slightly firm and al dente.
If you feel that the pasta needs to be softened a bit more, close the lid again and leave it for 5 minutes.
You can also use the “extend heat” function of the Hot Cook for cooking the pasta for an additional minute or two.
It is really easy and helpful just to open the lid and eat the pasta directly on the plate. The tomato sauce is excellent with just the right amount of salt.
Ms. Kazuyo Katsuma recommends 0.6% of salt for all ingredients, so I thought I’d like to try it out more often.
This time, I made “garlic toast,” which I grilled on toast with butter and jarred grated garlic, and we had it together!
We use YOUKI’s grated garlic in our house!
HOTCOOK 1.6L size (for 2-4 people), Latest model with a fluorine-coated inner pot
HOTCOOK 2.4L size (for 2-6 people), Latest model with a fluorine-coated inner pot
Useful notes
Good news for those who use the old model of Hot Cook with stainless steel inner pot! The long-awaited hot cook fluorine-coated inner pot is now on sale as an option!
I bought it online!
Now you can cook without worrying about cooking menus that stick to the bottom of the pot. Check it out if you are interested!
The fluorine-coated inner pot has FB at the end of the model number. Please be careful when purchasing. F refers to “fluorine.”
Sharp TJ-KN1FB Inner Pot for Hot Cooks, 0.4 gal (1.6 L) Type, Fluorine Coating
Sharp TJ-KN2FB Inner Pot for Hot Cooks, 0.6 gal (2.4 L) Type, Fluorine Coating
Sharp TJ-KN05FB Inner Pot for Hot Cooks, (1.0 L) Type, Fluorine Coating
