Dear all,
in exchange for all your help about meat, I'd like to share my favourite pasta recipe here.
The name is "pasta alla gricia", a traditional poor dish from the Rome region.
Just four ingredients, no oil or butter:
- Pasta (fresh pasta, typically Rigatoni) (150 gr. per person)
- Guanciale (pork cheek lard) (50 gr. per person)
- Grated Pecorino cheese (30 gr. per person)
- Black pepper
Guanciale in Italy looks very similar to pancetta (a kind of bacon), and most people here prepares this dish using this substitute.
The difference is that you will have an unusual smoked flavor and a different consistency, so I higly recommand to use cheek lard.
So, cut the cheek lard in stripes of about 3 centimeters and put them in a cooking pan with very low fire. Add pepper.
In 15/20 min the lard will become VERY crunchy and will lose most of his fat (remember: this fat is the key for a perfect gricia)
Put the pasta in salted boiling water and before draining it ("al dente"!), pour some spoons of this water in the cooking pan with guanciale.
This will produce a little bit of smoke, but it's ok
Add the pasta in the cooking pan, stir fry it for 30 seconds.
Turn off the stove, continue to stir it, adding the grated Pecorino little by little. Add pepper.
The pecorino, mixed with the cheek fat and the cooking water of the pasta (which is full of starch) will produce a fabulous cream, but don't forget to turn off the stove before.
Buon appetito!
Pasta alla gricia
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Re: Pasta alla gricia
Looks magnificent. :)
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Re: Pasta alla gricia
Thanks; first I've got to check and see if I can locate the ingredients
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Rambo wrote:Thanks; first I've got to check and see if I can locate the ingredients
If you cant find guanciale and pecorino try with bacon and grated parmigiano!
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Re: Pasta alla gricia
We've seen Pecorino around, but never something called guanciale. Is it known by any other names?
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Sailor Kenshin wrote:We've seen Pecorino around, but never something called guanciale. Is it known by any other names?
Unfortunately I don't think so.
But, if this can help, it's the same ingredient you'll find in pasta "all'amatriciana" and "carbonara".
Both were born with guanciale, but are often prepared with thick bacon slices.
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Re: Pasta alla gricia
Thx a lot, these is my favourite Pasta as well. Once i eat in Rome in a very old, small original Ristorante. This i will never forget.
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Re: Pasta alla gricia
This is the originale Guanciale
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