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What foods could I have al dente apart from pasta?
Vegetables.
I don't think 'al dente' collocates happily with any foodstuff other than pasta. Possibly an Italian recipe for cooking vegetables for a very short time might use the expression, or people might use it knowing that people will understand it in the pasta context; for example, I might say 'I like my Brussels sprouts al dente'.
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PS Rover's got a shorter answer, which is probably right.![]()
Last edited by BobK; 06-Sep-2012 at 12:19. Reason: Added PS
Risotto
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
I would only use it with pasta. Then again, I don't eat vegetables.
Please be aware that I'm neither a native English speaker nor a teacher.
rice
I would use it with pasta and rice generally. I would describe vegetables as "still slightly crunchy" or something similar. There is nothing worse than soft/overcooked Brussels sprouts!
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
I didn't know there was anything worse than Brussel sprouts, period.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
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