Cacio e pepe recipe - Italian iconic dish 😍 | The Cooking Foodie

“The hardest recipe of my LIFE” is an accurate description of cacio e pepe: three ingredients (pasta, pepper, cheese) need to merge in a perfect, silky tangle of spaghetti coated in a light melted cheese sauce that doesn’t turn to snot. The three elements, Chris Kimball wrote, “need to forge a culinary harmony that, when perfected, makes this one of Italy’s greatest dishes.” We’ve tried developing this recipe over 30 times and even scrapped our previous version. We figured out that it needs to b