Making Cheap Pasta Sauce Better

Cheap pasta sauce can sometimes taste bland and far from delicious. I recently discovered a great way to make cheap pasta taste awesome. It only requires a few ingredients that every kitchen has, and it takes your pasta a long way.

The first ingredient you'll need you'll acquire after you've already made the pasta. So boil any pasta of your choice in some salt water. Now before you dump the pasta into your colander and your pasta water down the drain, put a bowl under the colander or use a strainer. You are going to want catch that starchy pasta water for later use. Once you start heating up your pasta sauce put your pasta in the same pan and heat them up together, this will allow the pasta to actually absorb the sauce. Now you're going to take a little of that starchy water and add it to your pasta. Let all of that cook together on a low heat for about a minute. 

For the next portion you'll need a little bit of butter, about a tablespoon, and some extra virgin olive oil. Remove your pasta from the heat and add these two ingredients. Give your pasta a good stir. At this time you may also want to add fresh parmesan, and fresh herbs. 

If you follow these tips you will have some five-star restaurant quality pasta. It really is that easy and it makes all the difference. I found this tip on Chowhound a channel on YouTube, go here to check out their video walk-through.