Rome
Cacio e pepe
Three ingredients and one skill. Master it and you'll never panic about an empty fridge again.
20 minTime
23 gProtein each
mediumSpice
Make it your way
Grandma's wayPecorino, pepper, pasta water.
The original491kcalsame
23 gproteinsame
4 gfibresame
20minutessame
Cacio e pepe.
Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.
Ingredients
Method
4 steps- 1Boil pasta in lightly salted water, using less water than usual so it turns starchy. Keep 2 cups of it.
- 2Toast the cracked pepper in a dry wide pan for a minute, then add a ladle of pasta water.
- 3Mash the pecorino with a few spoons of warm (not boiling) pasta water into a thick cream.
- 4Add the pasta to the pepper pan, toss for a minute, take off the heat, then add the cheese cream and toss hard, loosening with water.
Serve it like this
Serve in warm bowls with a final shower of pecorino and pepper. Eat immediately; this sauce waits for no one.