Recipe: Perfect Carbonara

Carbonara. Season the carbonara with several turns of freshly ground black pepper and taste for salt. Mound the spaghetti carbonara into warm serving bowls and garnish with chopped parsley. Humble ingredients—eggs, noodles, cheese, and pork—combine to create glossy, glorious pasta carbonara.

An Italian friend of mine who cooks told me that the proper way to make smooth Carbonara sauce is to combine the beaten eggs with the grated parmesan, and then to pour that mixture onto the spaghetti once the spaghetti has cooled slightly (so that it's still hot, but so that the eggs don't cook and the cheese melts seamlessly into the eggs and pasta). This dish is a deli egg-bacon-and-cheese-on-a-roll that has been pasta-fied, fancified, fetishized and turned into an Italian tradition that, like many inviolate Italian traditions, is actually far. To make an authentic carbonara sauce, you need eggs and Parmesan. You can cook Carbonara using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Carbonara

1. It's 250 g of pasta shapes/tagliatelle.
2. Prepare 200 g of white mushrooms.
3. You need 1 of large onion.
4. Prepare 2 cloves of garlic.
5. It's 150 g of bacon lardons/cubes.
6. You need 80 ml of single cream.
7. You need 4 tbsp of dry white wine.
8. Prepare 4-6 pinches of parmizan cheese.

I repeat, YOU DO NOT NEED HEAVY CREAM. As much as we love cream, it'll just overpower everything. The combination of eggs + Parm,. A carbonara sauce is typically made with bacon, eggs, and cheese.

Carbonara instructions

1. Boil kettle for pasta + turn preheat oven (for garlic bread) + heat deep pan with 3 tbsp olive oil.
2. Chop garlic and onion, put into deep pan and mix.
3. Cook pasta and garlic bread.
4. Once onions are softened add bacon and mushrooms and mix again add some grated pepper (little bit salt optional).
5. Once bacon are slightly crispy and mushrooms are softened add the white wine.
6. Once wine has evaporated add the single cream mix thoroughly add 2-3 pinches of parmizan cheese cook on medium heat for 2mins.
7. Drain cooked pasta and put 2-3 tbsp olive oil through pasta then mix into carbonara..
8. Stir thoroughly, then serve and add a little more parmizan.

We've added a little half-and-half for a silky texture. Read the full recipe after the video. The ingredients are simple—just spaghetti (or other long pasta), and the carbonara is made with pancetta or bacon, eggs, Parmesan, a little olive oil, salt and pepper. The silky carbonara sauce is created when the beaten eggs are tossed with the hot pasta and a little fat from the pancetta or bacon. The only trick to Carbonara is tempering the egg yolks to ensure you do not end up with scrambled eggs.