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I've been in Rome last week for the Windows Embedded Seminar and I had a chance to appreciate a very tasteful pasta that it's typical of that city.
It's also a very simple and quick recipe, and one of my favorites when I came home late from office and I've only a few minutes to cook something edible.
The ingredients list is quite short:
- long pasta (spaghetti or bucatini)
- grated cheesee (the original recipe uses "pecorino romano", cheesee made with sheep milk)
- pepper powder
- olive oil
- salt
Put water in a pot, heat it and wait until it boils (you can grate the cheesee in the meantime...).
When it boils put salt inside it, wait until it boils again and drop the pasta.
Cook it for 1-2 minutes less than the cooking time specified on the box.
When the pasta is almost cooked take a couple of tablespoons of the water and put it inside a recipient with the grated cheesee, mix them well until you get a sort of cream (add some water if needeed).
When the pasta is cooked, put a tablespoon or two of olive oil in a pan, remove pasta from water ad drop it in the pan with the cheesee sauce and a generous amount of pepper powder. Stir it for a couple of minutes and serve.
It's quite a simple dish, the ingredients are easy to find (in Italy, at least), but if you have a chance to taste it in Rome, I can grant that it tastes better than ever.
P.S. The picture above was taken in Porto (Portugal), because I did not take pictures in Rome.. but I like to add some color to my boring posts and Porto is quite a beautiful city, like Rome, so forgive me for that!