When it comes to making pasta dishes, this cacio e pepe is as easy as it gets. It’s a classic Italian recipe where the main ingredients are cheese and pepper. Super simple, super quick and this is guaranteed to be an instant favorite. Classic Italian pasta dishes are all about a few simple but great ingredients, simple sauces with a handful of ingredients. Pasta is not usually smothered in sauces but are kept simple where the ingredients have a chance to shine.
Why Make This Cacio e Pepe?
Easy to Make! Requires only 4 Ingredients! Takes only 20 minutes, start to finish! Comfort food at its finest!
Ingredient Notes
Pasta – You can use either spaghetti for this which is probably the more common ingredient, or the other great pasta to use for this is bucatini! Bacatini, at first glance, looks just like spaghetti, but upon a closer look, you’ll notice it’s a bit thicker than your regular spaghetti, and has a hole going through the middle which makes it great because that little hole gets filled with sauce. Parmesan cheese – Lots of it, as a matter of fact, double the cheese. Don’t let me tell you how much cheese to put on your pasta, this is something you do with your heart. But I will tell you that you must use freshly grated, none of the packaged stuff. Trust me on this. Pecorino is also traditionally used in this dish, so use whichever one you have. Pepper – This is the other main ingredient in this dish so be free with it. The more the pepper the better, also only use freshly ground pepper. It makes all the difference. Butter – This ingredient is more optional than anything. Traditionally there’s no butter in this dish but I love a little butter in my sauce, it just gives it a little extra flavor.
How To Make Cacio e Pepe
Tips
Leftovers
Let’s be serious here, this recipe doesn’t make a lot, I say 3 servings, but if you’re hungry you get 2 nice servings out of it. So unless you’re making this for yourself only, you probably won’t have any leftovers. But if you are making this for party of one, the good news is that you can store leftovers in the fridge for about 3 days. However, this is one of those dishes that really is best served fresh.
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