Italian

Pasta alla Gricia

Name: Pasta alla Gricia
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 12 oz rigatoni; 6 oz guanciale; 3/4 cup grated pecorino; 1 tsp black pepper

Sabrina @sabrina_mi

Pasta alla Gricia is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

12 oz rigatoni
6 oz guanciale
3/4 cup grated pecorino
1 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Dice the guanciale and cook it in a dry skillet over medium heat until crisp and golden, about 6 minutes, then set the pan off the heat.
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the rigatoni until al dente.
Drain the pasta, reserving a cup of pasta water, and add it to the skillet with the guanciale and its fat.
Toss off the heat, adding pasta water and the pecorino a little at a time, until the sauce turns glossy and creamy.
Finish with plenty of cracked black pepper and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Pasta alla Gricia

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Pasta alla gricia: RICETTA ORIGINALE Play the video

Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pasta alla Gricia, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pasta alla Gricia carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Pasta alla Gricia
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Cacciatore
Gluten	Yes	Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 540 kcal
Protein: 22 g
Carbs: 63 g
Fat: 22 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 640 mg
Saturated fat: 10 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pasta alla Gricia takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.