Healthy Lifestyle Diets Vegetarian Recipes Healthy Vegetarian Dinner Recipes Healthy Vegetarian Pasta Recipes Cacio e Pepe Be the first to rate & review! When making this elemental Roman pasta, most people focus on the cheese (cacio), with purists arguing for youngish pecorino Romano. But the peppercorns (pepe) are also essential to this dish, so it's a great time to try a single-origin variety. Boiling down some reserved pasta-cooking water before mixing with the al dente spaghetti concentrates the starch for an even more luscious sauce. Look for a hard grating cheese made without rennet if you want to keep it truly vegetarian. By Andrea Nguyen Andrea Nguyen Andrea Nguyen is a James Beard award-winning author, cooking teacher and consultant. She lives in the Bay Area, where she experiments, writes, and also publishes Vietworldkitchen.com. Her latest cookbook is Vietnamese Food Any Day. 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Add salt then pasta, pushing it into the water, if needed, to submerge. Cook, stirring occasionally, until just shy of al dente, about 9 minutes. Meanwhile, heat canola oil, olive oil and 2 teaspoons pepper in a large nonstick skillet over medium-low heat until fragrant. Ladle 1 1/2 cups of the pasta-cooking water into the pan and reserve another 1/4 cup; drain the pasta (do not rinse it). Bring the peppery pasta-cooking water to a boil over high heat. Boil until reduced by nearly half, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium and add the pasta. Using tongs, stir and toss to coat the pasta with the liquid. Sprinkle in cheese in 3 additions, tossing quickly to ensure even distribution and melting between each addition. Drizzle the pasta with the reserved 1/4 cup pasta water and sprinkle with the remaining 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Serve immediately. Originally appeared: EatingWell Magazine, May 2021 Rate It Print Nutrition Facts (per serving) 322 Calories 13g Fat 43g Carbs 12g Protein Show Full Nutrition Label Hide Full Nutrition Label Nutrition Facts Servings Per Recipe 4 Serving Size 1 cup Calories 322 % Daily Value * Total Carbohydrate 43g 16% Dietary Fiber 6g 21% Total Sugars 2g Protein 12g 24% Total Fat 13g 17% Saturated Fat 5g 25% Cholesterol 15mg 5% Vitamin A 10IU 0% Sodium 464mg 20% Potassium 271mg 6% Nutrition information is calculated by a registered dietitian using an ingredient database but should be considered an estimate. * Daily Values (DVs) are the recommended amounts of nutrients to consume each day. Percent Daily Value (%DV) found on nutrition labels tells you how much a serving of a particular food or recipe contributes to each of those total recommended amounts. Per the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the daily value is based on a standard 2,000 calorie diet. 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