This TikTok recipe for cacio e pepe from The Pasta Queen is the perfect midweek dinner

“Cacio e pepe is the dish that’s followed me throughout my entire life,” says Nadia Caterina Munno

Ready in the time it takes pasta to cook, cacio e pepe is the original fast food. 

With 2.6m followers on TikTok and 1.8m on Instagram, it was only a matter of time before social media sensation Nadia Caterina Munno – AKA The Pasta Queen – released her own cookbook.

Born in Rome, Munno is all about the traditional way of pasta-making, passed down to her from generations – in fact, her great-great-grandparents started a pasta factory in the 1800s in southern Italy. The book covers everything from how to make and roll out the perfect dough, which pasta shapes to use, and the best sauces to go with it.