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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ham with cacio e pepe using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Ham with Cacio e Pepe:
- Prepare Cheeses
- Prepare 1 cup Alpine cheddar cheese
- Take 1 cup seriously sharp Vermont cheddar cheese
- Get 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Prepare Pasta
- Get 1 pound spaghetti pasta noodles
- Get 4 quarts water
- Make ready 1 tablespoon salt
- Get 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Make ready Ham
- Take 2 pound smoked ham
- Prepare To taste salt
- Prepare To taste ground black pepper
Cacio e pepe is a dish of only three ingredients, two of which are evident at first glance to anyone familiar with Roman dialect. Cacio is Romanesco for sheep's milk cheese. What is Cacio e Pepe? "Cacio e Pepe" means "cheese and pepper". As the name suggests, the ingredients of the dish are very simple and include only black pepper, Pecorino Romano cheese.
Instructions to make Ham with Cacio e Pepe:
- Boil the pasta as instructed on package. Don't throw out the pasta water you will need it. Cube the ham and fry in a deep pan. Let the fat render.
- Shred and grate the cheeses, and set aside. Now the pasta and ham should be done.
- Add some pasta to the ham. Add the cheeses and then the rest of the pasta. Start with 2 cups of pasta water added to the dish. Stir well.
- Keep stirring allowing the cheeses to coat all the pasta and ham. Keep on the heat. Everything will thicken a bit. If it's too thick add a bit of pasta water accordingly. Serve immediately! I hope you enjoy!!!
I decided to dress up the traditional Cacio e Pepe recipe by using bucatini pasta. Bucatini pasta is like a spaghetti noodle with a hole running through it. Salt the water and boil the pasta, stirring frequently, until al dente. Set a strainer over a large heatproof measuring cup in the sink and. The name is cacio e pepe: cheese and pepper.
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