Spaghetti carbonara (5 ingredient ). Spaghetti Pasta Carbonara—indulgent and delicious, yet so easy! Luscious and wonderfully indulgent, pasta carbonara takes as long to make as it does to cook the pasta. A spaghetti carbonara recipe is a failsafe classic.
It's also great made with rigatoni.
Serving suggestions: straight outta the serving bowl.
By Lindsay Funston and Lauren Miyashiro.
You can cook Spaghetti carbonara (5 ingredient ) using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Spaghetti carbonara (5 ingredient )
- You need 10 oz of pasta.
- Prepare 5 piece of bacon.
- It's 2 large of eggs.
- You need 3/4 cup of grated parmesan cheese.
- You need 4 clove of garlic minced.
To make an authentic carbonara sauce, you need eggs and Parmesan. I repeat, YOU DO NOT NEED HEAVY CREAM. As much as we love cream, it'll just overpower everything. Spaghetti alla Carbonara is a relatively modern Roman dish made by tossing hot pasta with Guanciale, and a mixture of eggs, cheese, and black pepper.
Spaghetti carbonara (5 ingredient ) instructions
- Cook spaghetti . While spaghetti is cooking dice up your bacon..
- Cook bacon about 6 to 8 minutes. Crispy is what your looking for. Don't drain the bacon grease..
- While bacon is cooking whisk up eggs and grated parmesan.
- Add garlic to bacon . Cook a minute . Pasta should be done at this time . Keep some of the pasta water, at least a cup. Drain pasta..
- Turn pan to low temp.Add spaghetti and egg mixture. Fold in to mix. Add tablespoon at a time reserved pasta water . Cook a couple of minutes to desired consistency..
- I served it with parsley and extra shredded parmesan..
Adding the hot pasta to the mixture melts the cheese and starts to set the egg, creating a thick creamy sauce that lacquers each strand of spaghetti. Humble ingredients—eggs, noodles, cheese, and pork—combine to create glossy, glorious pasta carbonara. It's the no-food-in-the-house dinner of our dreams. This delicious spaghetti carbonara recipe is one of my all-time favorite of favorite of favorites. It was actually one of the very first recipes I ever shared on Gimme Some Oven.