Put it in a saucepan, pour twice as much boiling water, salt, cook for 15-20 minutes, covered with a lid, over low heat. When cooking, stir the ptitim every 5 minutes.
Cook a little less in letters or asterisks: 10-15 minutes, depending on the thickness of the pasta.
How to cook ptitim
You will need – ptitim, water, salt, oil to taste
1. Put it in a saucepan, pour twice as much boiling water: for every 50 grams of cereal, take 100 milliliters of water.
2. Put the pan on fire, add salt and a little sunflower oil.
3. Cover the pan with a lid, cook for 5 minutes, then stir.
4. Cook for another 15 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes. It is very important not to overexpose the ptitim on the fire so that it does not burn and become too dry.
5. Throw in a colander.
Your petitim is ready to eat!
How to cook deliciously ptitim
When boiling, ptitim doubles in volume: it absorbs all the water and does not need rinsing.
The convenient for cooking property of ptitim is that it does not stick together. Since the pasta balls are very dense, the ptitim remains crumbly during cooking.
Ptitim can be used in regular “pasta” dishes, or it can be added to soup as noodles.
Ptitim is a very cereal-like pasta. Because of this property, ptitim is often called “Israeli couscous”, and it is no coincidence, because couscous, like ptitim, is produced from wheat products with the only difference that couscous is made from semolina, and ptitim is made from flour.
Historically we are from Israel. In the middle of the last century, after the reparation of the Jews, the authorities decided to come up with and produce a product that would replace the usual rice and couscous, which had become inaccessible at that time. At first, ptitim was produced in the form of rice, and then the form of balls was more suitable for pasta.
Currently, ptitim is produced in a wide variety of forms – from stars to letters. The peculiarities of ptitim that distinguish it from other pasta are a small placer, a relatively dense structure, and at the same time it contains only water and flour from durum wheat. Keep in mind that not any small pasta is ptitim: if, for example, there is an egg in the content of pasta, then this is not ptitim, but ordinary noodles, and it will not turn out crumbly.
The calorie content of ptitim is 360 kcal / 100 grams. Ptitim, like any pasta, is very high in calories, but with proper preparation and moderate consumption, it will not lead to excess weight.
The cost of ptitim, similar to couscous, is from 120 rubles / 400 grams. The price of ptitim in the form of stars and letters – from 60 rubles / 400 grams (on average in Moscow for July 2019)