It's fava beans' season! And in Rome fava beans and pecorino cheese is a typical dish,
 we usually eat this dish after a huge lunch.
But today I'm going to cook a pasta dish with fava beans and pecorino cheese.
The ingredients are: tonnarelli (long pasta) from Campofilone,
fresh mint, garlic, pecorino cheese, fresh fava beans
and olive oil, the good one!
Today we have Giorgio Franci's biological oil from Tuscany.
It won a lot of prizes as better business of the year!
Good Job!
Let's start with fava beans!
We have to open them and remove all the beans,
I'm going to put all the beans into this bowl.
Look, they're really beautiful!
It's a pity that Mario is not here! he could help me with this!
This is a relaxing job, you can do it while you drink a glass of wine!
It's such an easy recipe so we have to make it harder!
We will remove the skin from fava beans, that's an hard job,
I used to do that when I worked in a restaurant and I used to hate this!
It was even better when you had to remove the skin from peas!
This quantity is enough!
How can we peel it? I'm going to show you right now!
We need salted boiling water, I'm going to put the fava beans inside and now,
let's count 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10;
Bring them out of the water and we will use this water to cook pasta.
Now I'm going to remove the upper part, then I squeeze it and the pulp will come out.
Pay attention to not leave them into the water for a longer time because color would change.
We don't have to ruin our ingredients so just boil them for 10 seconds,
we will have the crunchy beans and the creamy pecorino sauce.
Since we are on a quarantine, let's help each other while we cook,
anyone can do any easy passage of a recipe like peeling the beans!
I have my own support worker Mariuccio!
Look, peeled all the beans,
they have to be a slightly crunchy consistence, it's not supposed to be a rock!
Now let's cook our tonnarelli, tonnarello is typical type of pasta from Rome.
I'm going to cook 9 oz of pasta, pay attention to don't brake it.
As soon as you put pasta into the water you smell something great!
It takes 10 minutes to be cooked!
Now we're going to put some oil into a pan, you have to cover all the bottom part of the pan,
let's add also two poached garlic cloves
and turn on the heat at the minimum power.
Mint is great with fava beans and pecorino cheese so we will add it!
I'm going to put the mint stalks into the oil to extract all the flavor.
Now we have to shallow fry the garlic and the mint.
Meanwhile I'm going to grate some pecorino cheese,
if you don't have a professional grater, you can use a regular grater.
Okay, garlic is ready, let's remove cloves and mint stalks.
Now we need a ladle to add some cooking water into the pan, after that turn off the fire.
After turned off the heat, I'm going to add some mint leaves, you have to break them with your hands,
don't use a knife unless it is ceramic. If you use a regular knife, leaves will become black.
Here we go, let's see if pasta is cooked...it's "al dente" , we like it!
I'm going to drain pasta and put it into the pan.
Now let's turn on the heat on the maximum power.
Pay attention because pasta could break so you have to wait a while before touching it.
You have to be really gentle.
Let's add some black pepper, a quite big amount!
You have to be thirsty when you eat this pasta !
Now our favorite moment is coming, let's add some water and let's toss!
I'm going to turn off the fire and wait to let's pasta cool down a little.
Now it's time to add pecorino cheese!
Let's add more water, it's like if we're cooking a "cacio e pepe",
so we can't have a really high temperature inside the pan, cheese has to become creamy.
This is my favorite moment, I'm exited!
Camerawoman come to see this cream!
Here we go, do you hear the sound?
Let's add fava beans.
Let's add more fava beans! And now we have to plate it!
Look it's really creamy!
Listen to this sound! Do you see the cream?
It's because we added thin grated pecorino and we also have the right temperature!
And now fava beans on the top!
Let's sprinkle with some fava beans ,some pecorino cheese and, black pepper ,
some olive oil and now let's sample it.
I don't feel very well! I could pass out!
Guys, it's amazing, you have to try to cook it at home!
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