Pasta - pecorino, cheek lard and pepper

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:02:01 GMT

Step 1

Place a large pot with water on your stove and wait until the water starts boiling. Add some salt, wait a minute and then ease down the type of pasta you prefer. Cook the pasta as long as the package says, it can take around 10 or 12 minutes.

Step 2

While the pasta is cooking, take a pan and heat it up. Cut the jowl bacon in small slices and ease it down into the pan. It is not necessary to put anything else in the pan, the grease of the jowl bacon is enough to not make it stick to bottom of the pan. Cook it a slow heat until is a little crispy and then take it out from the pan but do to throw away the grease that the meat left into the pan.

Step 3

When the pasta is ready, strain it but do not throw away the cooking water. Take some of this hot water with a ladle and ease it down into the pan where you cooked the jowl bacon. Keep the heat high and add the pasta into the pan with some more hot water and stir.

Step 4

Take a bowl and put the grated pecorino into it. Take a spoon of boiling water from the pasta and put it into the bowl. Whisk to make a cream and a bit of water at the time if necessary.

Step 5

Add the pecorino cream to the pasta and if the pan is too dry some more hot water you used to cook the pasta. Add the jowl bacon and stir until it is creamy,

Step 6

Serve adding some black pepper.

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