Ham with Cacio e Pepe
Ham with Cacio e Pepe

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, ham with cacio e pepe. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. 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.

Ham with Cacio e Pepe is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Ham with Cacio e Pepe is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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:
  1. Take Cheeses
  2. Make ready 1 cup Alpine cheddar cheese
  3. Get 1 cup seriously sharp Vermont cheddar cheese
  4. Get 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
  5. Take Pasta
  6. Get 1 pound spaghetti pasta noodles
  7. Take 4 quarts water
  8. Make ready 1 tablespoon salt
  9. Make ready 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  10. Get Ham
  11. Take 2 pound smoked ham
  12. Prepare To taste salt
  13. Get To taste ground black pepper

But we all know that the simplest recipes can often be the most confounding, and so it is with cacio e pepe. Follow those instructions and, if you're lucky, you'll. When making cacio e pepe, less is more. Cacio e pepe an elemental Roman pasta dish, which takes its spiciness from cracked black pepper toasted in oil.

Instructions to make Ham with Cacio e Pepe:
  1. 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.
  2. Shred and grate the cheeses, and set aside. Now the pasta and ham should be done.
  3. 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.
  4. 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!!!

Though not exactly typical in cacio e pepe, we found that incorporating olive oil makes emulsifying the delicate cheese sauce a far less finicky process. Grating the cheese (as opposed to shredding) or using a Microplane is also key, as this allows the cheese to melt quickly. In a large pot, bring heavily salted water to a boil. Cacio e pepe (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkaːtʃo e ˈpeːpe]) is a pasta dish from modern Roman cuisine. "Cacio e pepe" means "cheese and pepper" in several central Italian dialects. As the name suggests, the ingredients of the dish are: black pepper, grated Pecorino Romano cheese, and spaghetti.

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