# Pasta alla Zozzona

Pasta alla Zozzona is a rich and creamy Italian pasta dish featuring guanciale, Italian sausage, plum tomatoes, Pecorino cheese, and egg yolks.

- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 180 g rigatoni or mezze maniche pasta
- 75 g guanciale
- 100 g Italian sausage
- 0.5 onion
- 2 egg yolks
- 50 g pecorino
- 400 g tinned plum tomatoes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 pinch chilli flakes
- black peppercorns
- salt

## Instructions

1. Add salt to a pot of boiling water.
2. Add Mezze Maniche pasta to the boiling water.
3. Diced an onion.
4. Remove the rind from the guanciale.
5. Dice the guanciale.
6. Toast black peppercorns in a pan.
7. Grind the toasted black peppercorns.
8. Add the guanciale into a dry pan with no oil.
9. Cook the guanciale over medium heat until the fat renders out and it's crispy.
10. Save some of the rendered fat.
11. Add the diced onion to the pan with the guanciale.
12. Cook the onion for a few minutes until softened.
13. Remove the casing from the Italian sausage.
14. Add the Italian sausage to the pan and break it up.
15. Cook the sausage until it's golden brown.
16. Crush the plum tomatoes.
17. Add the crushed plum tomatoes to the pan.
18. Add black pepper and chili flakes to the pan.
19. Let the sauce simmer for 10 minutes.
20. Grate Pecorino cheese into a bowl.
21. Add black pepper to the Pecorino.
22. Add the saved guanciale fat to the Pecorino mixture.
23. Add egg yolk to the Pecorino mixture.
24. Add pasta water to the Pecorino mixture.
25. Mix the Pecorino, black pepper, guanciale fat, egg yolk, and pasta water.
26. Add the cooked pasta to the sauce in the pan.
27. Cook the pasta and sauce for 1 minute.
28. Take the pan off the heat.
29. Add the egg and cheese mixture to the pasta.
30. Mix well until creamy.
31. Finish with more black pepper.
32. Finish with more grated Pecorino.

## Equipment

- pot
- knife
- cutting board
- pan
- mortar and pestle
- spoon
- grater
- bowl
- whisk

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT697xyPM/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/b6121ac6-1d0a-4e2a-9cd0-9655faf9df4a
- Extracted: 2025-08-15

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