meal traditional recipe

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Simple & Delicious…long overdue in my list of recipes

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Ingredients

  • 125 g of spaghetti
  • 60 g of pecorino romano 
  • Salt
  • Freshly cracked black pepper

Method

  1. Bring some water to a boil, use 50% the water of what you use usually 

  2. Grate the cheese

  3. Generously salt the water once it boils

  4. Add the pasta, you will cook it 70% of the time in boiling water (for me, my pasta requires 10 m for al dente, cook it for 7 m in the water)

  5. In a skillet, crack some fresh pepper, be generous

  6. Roast the pepper to medium heat

  7. Add a ladle of pasta water to the pan

  8. Add 1.4 of the ladle of pasta water to the grated cheese, just enough to bring the cheese into some sort of ball

  9. After 7 minute bring the pasta to the skillet, make sure to set aside the pasta water

  10. Bring the heat to medium high, you will likely need to add some more pasta water (1 or 2 ladle) to the paste, mixed well to ensure the pepper mix with the pasta and cook like this until the pasta is cooked, ensure there is still enough water

  11. Once the pasta is cooked, turn of the heat

  12. Add the bowl of cheese and mix carefully to ensure the cheese melt well an cream

  13. If the cheese strings, sorry, you did it wrong, likely not enough water or too much heat

  14. Once the cheese is creamy, serve directly.

Proportions are for 1 portion, just multiply to serve more people.

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Traditional
Serve1
Preparation Time5 mn
Cooking Time10 mn
Temperature
AuthorsPascal Crausaz
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