Deep-Fried Pasta

Deep-Fried Pasta.

OK, I admit it.

This isn’t grilled, but I had deep-fried pasta at a tapas buffet a while ago, and it was so damn good.

Deep-fried pasta works as a nibble or a side for any buffet or grilled dish. It’s simply made with ordinary fresh pasta. I do want to raise a warning finger, though: don’t use filled fresh pasta such as tortellini. These tend to “pop” like the worst New Year’s firecrackers:

Ordinary fresh pasta works fine.

In this recipe I used fresh lasagne sheets that I cut into strips of a suitable thickness.