Cacio e Pepe

This traditional Cacio e Pepe recipe only takes about 20 minutes to make, with 4 easy ingredients.  It’s the perfect impromptu recipe for pasta night!

Cacio e Pepe Recipe

So friends! I don’t do this very often, but I’m back today with a very important recipe update that is going to make your life even easier…and even more delicious.

Meet my newly-revised, 4-ingredient, 20-minute, truly-deeply-foolproof cacio e pepe recipe. ♡♡♡

Many of you have made and loved the original cacio e pepe recipe that I posted here on the blog a few years ago.  But some of you reported back that you were having issues with the cheese sauce clumping a bit, which it could be prone to do when made separately on the side if the temperatures of the ingredients weren’t quite right.  So I went back to the drawing table this winter, and experimented with just about every possible method in the world to make cacio e pepe.  And in the end, I have good news for us all — the absolute easiest way to make cacio e pepe ended up being the winner, both in terms of taste and reliability!

So grab your four simple ingredients — pasta, cheese, black pepper and butter — and let’s make an epic batch of this “grown up mac and cheese” together.  You are going to love it. (more…)