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Ina Garten's Tip For Lasagna Noodles Is A Total Time-Saver
By Kuamel Stewart
While there are conventional ways to prepare and cook noodles to make great lasagna, celebrity chef and cookbook author Ina Garten has a special tip for better layers.
The "Barefoot Contessa" host has shared an alternative to boiling noodles that makes cooking lasagna much more efficient: soak the noodles in hot water instead of boiling them.
Incorporating this step in a classic lasagna recipe is super quick and easy. Soaking the noodles cooks them sufficiently before baking, and you don't have to wait for them to boil.
Boiling noodles takes around 10 minutes and requires stirring to separate them from each other so they can each cook thoroughly, ensuring a soft texture that delivers some bite.
Soaking lasagna noodles takes much less effort. Simply load up your baking dish with your lasagna noodles and soak them in hot water until you're ready to layer your lasagna.
Redditors discussed this method online, and one user shared, "It actually makes building [a lasagna] a lot easier because you aren't working with hot sticky pasta sheets."