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Cacio e Pepe
Three ingredients. Pasta, pecorino and black pepper. The hardest simple dish to master.
Prep 5m · Cook 12mServes 2Challenging
Ingredients
Serves 2
- 400 g tonnarelli or spaghetti
- 200 g pecorino romano, finely grated
- 2 tsp black peppercorns, freshly cracked
Method
- 1
Toast cracked peppercorns in a dry pan for 1 minute. Add a ladleful of pasta water and reduce.
3 min
- 2
Cook pasta until very al dente. Reserve lots of pasta water.
9 min
- 3
Transfer pasta to the pepper pan off the heat. Add pecorino in stages, tossing vigorously with splashes of pasta water until a creamy sauce forms. Serve immediately.
3 min