Spaghetti carbonara recipes
Ingredients
- ½ onion
- 1-2 cloves garlic
- 90g streaky bacon
- 250g spaghetti
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons single cream
- 30g grated parmesan
- generous pinch freshly cracked black pepper
- olive oil
- salt
- butter
Method
- Put the kettle on to boil for the pasta. Peel and finely chop the onion and garlic and set aside. Chop bacon and fry in olive oil in a large frying pan or pot (it will need to be big enough to mix the pasta and the sauce together before serving).
- Get a pan of boiling water, add plenty of salt and a glug of olive oil and keep it simmering. When the bacon just starts to turn crispy, add spaghetti to the boiling water. When the bacon is nice and crispy, add the onion and garlic to the pan along with a knob of butter. Turn the heat down and leave to cook gently. Now make your sauce: in a jug, whisk the eggs, cream, parmesan and black pepper. When the pasta is al dente, drain it, reserving some of the cooking water.
- Add the pasta to the pan with the bacon and briefly stir (this helps to cool everything slightly to avoid scrambling the eggs). Now pour in all of the egg-cream mixture and mix everything together thoroughly. The residual heat from the pasta and bacon will gently cook the eggs and melt the cheese, resulting in an amazingly rich creamy sauce. Add some of the pasta cooking water to achieve a more fluid consistency. Keep stirring until the sauce is silky and smooth, then serve and eat immediately.
6 Comments
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Princess_ Sun Feb 14 2010 • Reply
Fantastic recipe I did this except used my own cheese and used chicken breast that had been left to marinate in chopped garlic and mixed herbs all day. also if you are only cooking for less people id lessen the sauce and also i wondered if anyone knew how to thicken it abit? Flour? Thanks loved it!!
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jonnysta13 Sun Sep 6 2009 • Reply
Sorry.It must be an error!!
Ingredients
- PASTA
- 2oz per person Spagetti or any other Pasta
- INGREDIENTS
- 6 pieces Bacon Rashers. Chopped
- 2 table spoons Olive Oli
- 2 garlic clove
- 5 Eggs
- 5 Eggs - beaten
- 140ml double cream
- Parmesan (optional)
Method
- Boil spaghetti in boiling water with salt and a drizzle of oil for 20 mins or until aldente.15 minutes later fry the bacon in olive oil and crush the garlic into the pan, cook until bacon is nice and crisp.Take the pan off the heat and hopefully by this time the pasta should be ready.Drain the pasta in a colander.Then place the drained pasta back in the pan and add the bacon with all the extra juices.Stir in well.Then pour in the beaten eggs and stir in well, try to avoid placing the pan back on the heat because the egg starts to scrambble.Then pour in cream.Add a drizzle of olive oil (optional) and parmasan cheese (optional)and place in a preheated serving bowl.Enjoy!!
Ingredients
- 400ml Single Cream
- 1 500g spaghetti
- 6-8 rashers of smoked streaky bacon. the best quality you can afford
- 50g Freshly Grated Parmesan Cheese
- 1 A few good twists of black pepper
- 2 egg yolks
Method
- 1.Put a medium or large pan 3/4 full of water on the heat add a good pinch of salt..
- 2.Cut the bacon into slivers across the width and fry them off with a little butter or olive oil until they are a little crispy..
- 3.Then add the cream to the bacon and bring to a simmer.
- 4.Add the spaghetti to the boiling water stir well to separate.
- 5.Add the Parmesan to the simmering pan then reduce the heat.
- 6.Drain the pasta and place back in the pan.
- 7.Add the egg yolks to the cream stir in.
- 8.Add the sauce to the spaghetti,a few good twists of black pepper and enjoy proper food cooked not prossesed remember.xx
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Add commentKenny Thu May 5 2011 • Reply
Spaghetti Carbonara the King of Pastas
Kenny Mon Apr 4 2011 • Reply
Definitely agree with you - Spaghetti Carbonara is my absolute favourite Italian pasta dish as well - this look very tasty will have a go a making it for dinner this week.