Ciao ragazzi! I'm Roberta, chef at Pasta Evangelists and today I will show you how to make
cacio and pepe. What ingredient you need for cacio and pepe - so few ingredients only pepper,
pecorino and the pasta today we got bucatini you can also go for pici or why not even a
simple spaghetti. It's important though to use dry pasta as it contains a lot of starch
and it will help you to get a really nice and creamy cacio e pepe. So the pasta water it's
on in a couple of minutes we are ready to cook bucatini in the meantime let's create the sauce.
So I as I say I'm using pecorino it's always nice to use pecorino not to
age as it contains more milk so it's more creamy and it's going to get
a really nice result. So what you have to do is to simply grate the pecorino cheese
and then we leave it aside at the moment I will show you guys how to then create a really nice and
cream to then add to the bucatini
and let's toast a little bit the black pepper
and then we are going to use a pestle and mortar to crush the black pepper
so we are now ready to cook the pasta. Hot boiling water - don't forget to add
a good tablespoon of salt and we are ready with bucatini.
Now in the meantime the the pasta is cooking and let me tell you something about the pasta
always check the on the package how many minutes is says. If it is a nine minutes I
will expect you to remove the pasta about seven minutes so you leave the last three minutes
to cook it all together and I will show you now. So and in the meantime that the pasta is cooking
what we wanted to grab also it's just a few spoon of water which is going to create the creamy sauce
so I have mixed the cheese with just a little bit of water in order to get this nice and creamy
consistency, pretty firm and we are ready then to mix with the bucatini. So the pepper that we
have prepared before we crushed all the black pepper I'm going to add a little bit in the pan
The amount of pepper it's really how much spicy you like your dish, how strong you like
the flavour of pepper so if you like more just do it don't worry and we are going to add now
from the water that the pasta is cooking we are going to add a few tablespoons so we can start
making these amazing cacio e pepe sauce. So we add a little bit of water and let's just put it on
on a medium, low-medium heat so in order to then mix with the bucatini. Add the very al
dente bucatini to the pan, leave it to cook for a couple of minutes in the pasta water and pepper.
You will see all the starch coming out from the pasta and you will have a nice and creamy sauce.
Now remove from the heat and you're ready to add the pecorino cheese.
I always suggest to remove completely from the heat so the cheese will be nice and creamy
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