Cacio e Pepe 🌱
Cacio e Pepe 🌱

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cacio e pepe 🌱. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Alright all you cacio e pepe purists, it's GOOD and EASY. And quite frankly that's all that matters. So let people have their cheesy, peppery pasta with a wee bit of butter.

Cacio e Pepe 🌱 is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Cacio e Pepe 🌱 is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook cacio e pepe 🌱 using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cacio e Pepe 🌱:
  1. Make ready 150 g spaghetti (or tonnarelli) I used a no-egg pasta
  2. Get 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns
  3. Take 1 drizzle of good olive oil
  4. Prepare 2 tablespoons Parmesan or vegetarian hard cheese or vegan cheese alternative (see below)
  5. Make ready Homemade Vegan Parmesan Cheese Alternative 🧀
  6. Take 2 teaspoons sweet ground almonds
  7. Get 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  8. Get 1/2 onion powder (can use more garlic powder if you don’t have any)
  9. Prepare 1 teaspoon nutritional yeast
  10. Take Grated lemon zest (optional but make sure you use a non-waxed lemon)
  11. Take 1/8 teaspoon sea salt flakes

Cacio e pepe is the most divine pasta dish made with simple, high quality ingredients. Tender noodles tossed in a two-cheese blend and a hint of cream ensure luscious forkfuls. Freshly cracked black pepper adds tiny spicy bursts of flavor with each bite. Cacio e Pepe is a simple Roman pasta dish that is easy to make and tastes absolutely heavenly.

Steps to make Cacio e Pepe 🌱:
  1. Cook the pasta in a pan of boiling water for around 8 minutes or according to instructions.
  2. Lightly toast black peppercorns in a warm pan and crush in a pestle and mortar or grinder.
  3. Crush the vegan Parmesan ingredients in a pestle and mortar. Taste and adjust to your taste.
  4. Drain the pasta (retain a little water), add a drizzle of olive and sprinkle and toss with your choice of cheese. Add a little of the retained pasta water if needed to loosen. Sprinkle with more [vegan] Parmesan and the freshly crushed black pepper. Enjoy 😋

This cheesy peppery Italian pasta is a favorite for a reason. The traditional choice of pasta for Cacio e Pepe is tonnarelli pasta, a thick round long pasta similar to a thick spaghetti or bucatini. 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. But we all know that the simplest recipes can often be the most confounding, and so it is with cacio e pepe. Here's how to make it perfectly every time.

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