How to Feed Your Plants: Pasta Water

Earth Day is this Sunday! Since our passion is pasta, we've got an environmentally friendly pasta cooking tip to keep in mind in honor of this special day: after cooking your pasta to al dente perfection, don’t pour all of your used pasta water down the drain. Instead, let it cool and use it to water your plants! No, really! The starchy H20 provides beneficial nutrients that help plants grow. Just be sure to avoid using pasta water that has been seasoned or salted. Do you have excess seasoned pasta cooking water on hand? Save it for your sauce!

Sustainable Pasta Recipes

Looking for more pasta cooking tips that can help the environment and your plate? Browse our sustainability themed ideas and recipes for more ways to use your pasta water more efficiently, and learn how to reduce waste in the kitchen, too. Don't forget to browse Barilla's recipes to get a pasta recipe to make to create all this versatile pasta water!