How to Prepare Cacio e Pepe in 24 Minutes for Family

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, cacio e pepe. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook cacio e pepe using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cacio e Pepe:

1. Take 2 TSP Black Peppercorns,
2. Make ready 5 Pink Peppercorns,
3. Make ready 200 g Good Quality Linguine,
4. Prepare Sea Salt, For Seasoning
5. Get Pecorino Romano Freshly Grated, A Good Handful

Cacio e Pepe is a simple Roman pasta dish that is easy to make and tastes absolutely heavenly. This recipe is authentic as it comes and is the perfect version of Cacio e Pepe to make at home. The name is cacio e pepe: cheese and pepper. The addition of garlic changes the dish but it is still tasty.

Steps to make Cacio e Pepe:

1. In a skillet over medium heat, add in black and pink peppercorns. - - Toast until aromatic. - - Transfer into a mortar and grind the peppercorns coarsely with pestle. - - Set aside.
2. In the same skillet over medium heat, add 400ml of hot water and 100g of linguine. - - Season the water with salt until the water taste like the ocean. - - Cook the pasta until al dente.
3. Remove the pasta. - - What you are left with is starchy pasta water. - - Do not discard this water. - - Add hot water into the pasta water until it reaches 400ml.
4. Add in the remaining 100g of pasta. - - Taste the water if any more salt is needed. - - Cook until the pasta is al dente.
5. It is simple calculation that when the pasta is almost al dente, the liquid will almost evaporate. - - Add in the ground pepper.
6. Toss to combine well. - - Remove from heat. - - Toss in the cheese. - - Transfer into serving plate. - - Serve immediately.

If you were to watch a practiced hand make cacio e pepe, you might think the instructions were as simple as this: Cook spaghetti and drain. Toss with olive oil, butter, black pepper, and grated Pecorino. When making cacio e pepe, less is more. Cacio e pepe an elemental Roman pasta dish, which takes its spiciness from cracked black pepper toasted in oil. Cacio e pepe is the most divine pasta dish made with simple, high quality ingredients.

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