Sunday, February 19, 2012

Pasta alla Carbonara

This is such a easy, fast, few ingredient dish! We probably have it once week. Cus you always have the ingredients on hand. Pasta, eggs, and cheese.  I add a few extras if you have them in fridge.
For 2 ppl:
Cook whatever pasta you have on hand, I like linguine for this dish. 
Saute 2 strips of bacon. Take bacon out when cooked through, to bacon fat add a little onion and 1 garlic clove, hot chilies if you have some.
Right before pasta is done, mix together 1 egg, S & P,  handful of parm. Temper the egg with a scoop of hot pasta water. That is, add the water slowly while you stir so you don't cook the egg but just bring it to temperature, so that when you add it to the hot pasta you don't just get scrambled eggs.
Drain pasta, add to bacon skillet with onions and such, pour egg mixture over pasta on low heat and stir.  Finish with lots of black pepper and a drizzle of good EVOO. You can add anything you like to this dish. Traditionally, it is peas, but sometime I add broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, lemon, arugula, anything to lighten it up a little. What you get is a delicious creamy simple pasta dish! Hope you get a chance to make this! Let me know what you think.

                                                

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