Spaghetti Carbonara. Spaghetti Pasta Carbonara—indulgent and delicious, yet so easy! This is a near perfect and flawless recipe for the classic Spaghetti alla Carbonara. And even it it wasn't, who cares?
By Lindsay Funston and Lauren Miyashiro.
When you're craving a comfort food, nothing—I repeat, NOTHING—will cure you like creamy carbonara.
Discover how to make our best spaghetti carbonara recipe.
You can cook Spaghetti Carbonara using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Spaghetti Carbonara
- It's of Dried or fresh spaghetti (check packet for amount per serving).
- Prepare of Chopped smoked bacon or lardons.
- Prepare 2-3 of eggs.
- You need of Parmesan.
- Prepare of Generous dash of olive oil.
- It's of Creme fraiche (optional).
- It's of Parsley.
This cheesy pasta dish is an Italian favourite. A recipe triple-tested by the BBC Good Food team. Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Because America may have contributed to its creation, carbonara is Exhibit A in the back-and-forth between Italy and.
Spaghetti Carbonara step by step
- Cook the spaghetti for the required time..
- While the spaghetti is cooking, fry the bacon/lardon in olive oil until a little bit crunchy. Turn the cooker off so the bacon doesn't burn. It's best to fry the bacon/lardon in a largish, heavy bottomed saucepan as you will be adding the spaghetti to it and need it to retain the heat..
- When the spaghetti is cooked, spoon it into the bacon/lardon mix (retaining the spaghetti water) and give it a good mix to spread the flavour and coat the spaghetti in olive oil. Heat it further if you wish but not too much as it will dry up and fry..
- Beat the eggs. Grate a good couple of handfuls of parmesan into the beaten eggs then pour the eggs and parmesan into the spaghetti mix; mix them in quickly and thoroughly. The eggs should cook in the hot mixture..
- If it looks too dry add a few table spoons of water from the spaghetti saucepan..
- Stir in a tablespoon of creme fraiche and season to taste..
- Pour into a serving dish, top with a generous amount of grated parmesan and garnish with parsley. Job done..
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