'I stopped boiling pasta in plain water and now it tastier and more healthy'

Most people know how to boil pasta, with the usual method being to put the dry pasta in a pot of boiling water with a dash of salt and leaving it to simmer for around 10 minutes. However, one chef and mum-of-two claims people have been 'doing it wrong' all this time and that there is in fact a better method.

Hollie-Evelyn, known as @hollieevelyn on Instagram, often shares her "delicious, wholesome recipes" with her 83,500 followers on the app. In one of her latest reels, she decided to share a pasta hack – revealing a different method to the typical way of cooking it.

The video saw Hollie add dry pasta straight into her pan as overlay text read: "POV: you stopped boiling your kids' pasta in plain water and this happened..."

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Hollie was then seen adding chopped cherry tomatoes to the pan, as well as peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, onion, courgettes and dried mixed herbs before pouring stock all over it.

The chef says she cooks the pasta like that until it's al-dente and mixes in one tablespoon or cornstarch and one tablespoon of the pasta sauce.

Captioning the reel, the mum wrote: "Stop wasting an opportunity to add flavour and goodness into your kids' meals!

"I cook the pasta straight in chicken stock and veggies. It soaks up all the nutrition and flavour and makes pasta x 10 tastier (with zero extra pans or faffing around!).

"It’s my kids favourite and I never get asked for plain pasta now!"

She added: "Simple and delicious. Save this one for a quick 15-minute meal. We call it rainbow pasta – goodbye plain old pasta."

To check out Hollie's full recipe make sure to check out her reel.

People were loving the meal inspiration with the post racking up more than 9,000 likes. One person exclaimed: "I can almost smell the flavours."

While another added: "Oh what a great idea." A third chimed in: "So simple but so effective. Thank you for sharing lovely."

A fourth also shared their own tip, writing: "Same deal with rice too – so yummy!"