Carbonara - the Italian way
Carbonara - the Italian way

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, carbonara - the italian way. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Carbonara - the Italian way is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Carbonara - the Italian way is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

We don't use cream, milk, garlic, onions or other strange ingredients; we use only guanciale, eggs, pecorino cheese, and lots of black pepper (carbonaro is the Italian for coal miner). Spaghetti alla Carbonara: When it's good, it can make your eyes roll back in your head with pleasure. It lurks there, beckoning, batting its eyelashes on Italian menus. When you don't order it, you usually end up wishing you had.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carbonara - the italian way using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Carbonara - the Italian way:
  1. Get 80 g/person linguine
  2. Get 1 egg/ 2 people (maximum!)
  3. Prepare 1 handful Parmesan
  4. Get 1 packet pancetta (ideally guanciale)
  5. Make ready 1 handful salt
  6. Make ready 3 tablespoon milk/cream
  7. Take Black pepper
  8. Get Salt

As you can see there is no cream in the original version. Hopefully once you have seen how eat it is to make you won't ever buy a ready made. While most Italian pasta dishes use a specific pasta shape, in pasta Carbonara recipe any type of pasta will do. Spaghetti is the typical choice for Carbonara however fettuccini, rigatoni, linguini and bucatini are all very common in Carbonara recipes.

Steps to make Carbonara - the Italian way:
  1. Boil the water of the pasta with a handful of rock salt. When it boils add the pasta and cook as per the instructions - I recommend timing it to be 2 min less than what indicated on the packaging and then taste it to not risk overcooking it.
  2. In a frying pan cook the pancetta on medium heat. If you have bacon cut that into pieces and cook it in the same way. Cook until golden. I don't add any oil to the pan as the pancetta already has quite a lot of fat that will be released with the heat.
  3. In a bowl add one egg and the parmesan together with a dash of milk or water. Add salt and pepper. Beat it with a fork well. For the real recipe you are meant to only use the yolk although it feels like a waste for me so I use the whole egg. This doesn't need to cook so just leave it on the side.
  4. Now when the pasta is ready (al dente) take a cup and save some of the water. This is a good tip for whatever pasta you make, in Italy we save some of the water so that you can add it in case it gets too dry.
  5. Drain the pasta and add it back in the pot without any heat. Add the egg and the pancetta and mix well. The eggs will cook with the heat from the pasta. If it looks too dry add a dash of water that you saved from the cooking.

While most Italian pasta dishes use a specific pasta shape, in pasta Carbonara recipe any type of pasta will do. Spaghetti is the typical choice for Carbonara however fettuccini, rigatoni, linguini and bucatini are all very common in Carbonara recipes. The Original Italian Way of Making Pasta Carbonara by Rachel Mukando Pasta carbonara is one of the delicious dishes that needs very few ingredients… which is always a plus if you like to make quick meals. In the traditional recipe for spaghetti carbonara, you need no other ingredients so. DO NOT USE garlic, parsley, onion, cream, milk, parmigiano, pancetta, bacon.

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