(ANSA) – ROME, AUG 6 – The BBC on Wednesday fixed a recipe for Cacio e Pepe on the food page of its website after a faulty previous version was called out by Claudio Pica, the head of the Rome and Lazio branch of the Fiepet-Confesercenti business association.
The first version listed four ingredients for the traditional Roman dish – spaghetti, pepper, parmesan and butter.
But the original recipe does not feature butter and requires pecorino cheese, not parmesan.
The BBC amended its recipe, but it still included a tip that would be seen as heresy to Italian cooks, suggesting people struggling to get it right “try adding a slick of double cream to the mix”. (ANSA).
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