Carbonara Pasta

Carbonara A.k.a. bacon egg and cheese pasta is perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner! Creamy, savory, and delicious, this dish is way easier to make than you thought.

What Is Carbonara?

“Bacon, egg, and cheese” is an Italian pasta dish that features egg yolk and parmesan cheese to create a silky sauce that coats the pasta in a way that’s not thick like alfredo, but rather a light but stable sauce.

How To Store

YOU DONT! Since there’s egg yolk in the sauce, the minute you microwave or try to reheat this pasta, the eggs will scramble, and you will no longer have that silky, beautiful sauce you created.

Carbonara

Carbonara, a.k.a. bacon egg and cheese pasta is perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner! Creamy, savory, and delicious, this dish is way easier to make than you thought.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

Course Breakfast, Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Servings 3 people

Ingredients

  

• ½ lb spaghetti
• 4 strips bacon
• 1 small shallot finely diced
• 2 garlic cloves grated
• 2 Calabrian chiles minced
• 1 sprig green onion thinly sliced
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 cup finely grated parmesan
• ½ cup reserved pasta water plus more if needed
• Salt and pepper to taste

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Instructions

 

• Boil heavily salted water and cook pasta for about 6 minutes until al dente.

  *Don't throw pasta into water until about 5 minutes before you're ready to throw it into your skillet with all of your aromatics in it.
• To a skillet on medium high heat, cook chopped bacon until fat is rendered and bacon is crispy. Remove bacon and set aside. Discard half of the fat from the bacon. Reserve the remaining half to further cook this dish.
• Sauté onions in the same skillet until translucent. Follow with garlic, chilies, and green onion. Sauté until fragrant.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together egg yolks, parmesan, black pepper, and pasta water until a thin paste is formed.
• Turn heat off and add pasta into skillet straight from the pot and add in the egg/cheese mixture. Stir vigorously until the paste has melted and turned into a pasta coating sauce.

  Add bacon back into pasta. Serve immediately.