Cacio e Pepe Pasta

INGREDIENTS:

• Fresh Long Shape Pasta

• Stirling Creamery Unsalted Butter

• Black Peppercorn

• Grated Pecorino Padano Blend

DIRECTIONS:

1. Cook pasta until it is almost done, you will finish cooking it in the butter. Reserve pasta water.

2. In a skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Add cracked pepper and cook for 1 minute.

3. Add pasta and some reserved pasta water to skillet. Let water reduce until it just coats the pasta, about 1 minute.

4. Reduce heat to medium-low and sprinkle on cheese, tossing with tongs to coat pasta and melt cheese.

5. Add more pasta water then cheese, as in steps 3 and 4, if needed.

6. Add more butter and toss with more cheese until you have perfectly al dente pasta coated with sauce. Add more cracked pepper, to taste.