OK so I have been trying to make a really good carbonara for some time; it has eluded me for a while but now I have it! Some people over complicate the whole thing unnecessarily. This really does work brilliantly and uses basically no ingredients.The trick, I have discovered, is to put the egg and cheese in at the correct time (see below for when this is).
Ingredients (for one person)
Method
Get the pasta on in some boiling water with a little salt and olive oil. Fry the bacon in a little olive oil/butter.
Take the bacon out and cut it up into small pieces; put to one side. Drain the pasta. Keeping the pasta pan off the heat (this is absolutely key!), grate in a decent chunk of cheese and break the egg in. Add the bacon. Put it back on the heat and stir with a wooden spoon for about 20 secs.
You must keep the pan off when you put the cheese and egg in because otherwise it starts to fry and so you get a "bitty" carbonara. This is horrible. So don't do it.
Fab. Delicious. The Barking Baking easy carbonara.
- Pasta
- 2 rashers of bacon or just some ham if you want
- 1 egg
- Grated cheese
Method
Get the pasta on in some boiling water with a little salt and olive oil. Fry the bacon in a little olive oil/butter.
Take the bacon out and cut it up into small pieces; put to one side. Drain the pasta. Keeping the pasta pan off the heat (this is absolutely key!), grate in a decent chunk of cheese and break the egg in. Add the bacon. Put it back on the heat and stir with a wooden spoon for about 20 secs.
You must keep the pan off when you put the cheese and egg in because otherwise it starts to fry and so you get a "bitty" carbonara. This is horrible. So don't do it.
Fab. Delicious. The Barking Baking easy carbonara.
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