Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Spaghetti Carbonara

I made this today for my pasta dish and it was AMAZING! Two other people did carbonara and it's funny how different each one of ours was. But not to be bias or full of myself but this one is really yummy, and easy.

Creamy Spaghetti Carbonara
Serves 2 ( you can adjust if y ou want more)
1/2 lb angel hair spaghetti (you can use regular or any kind of long stands)
5 slices of bacon, diced
1 garlic clove, minced
1 T extra virgin olive oil
2 egg yolks
1/2 c. cream
1 c. reserved pasta water
1/2 c. parmasean cheese
1/4 tsp nutmeg
black pepper, TT (to taste)
Bring a pot of water up to boil and salt it fairly heavily, you want your pasta just under al dente, so have it done and ready by the time you are doing the sauce and have it in the strainer over your water. Then whisk egg yolks and cream togerther. Then in a skillet crisp your bacon up, then add the olive oil and garlic and saute for about 1 min, don't burn your garlic. Then add your pasta and using tongs turn to coat with bacon and garlic. Slowly add your pasta water and cream and yolks slowly turning the pasta around to prevent scrambling. Then add the parmasean, nutmeg and pepper. Let sit for about 1 min and serve.

What is also good with this are some veggies, I personally like to saute zuchinni with olive oil and garlic, salt and pepper, then add diced tomatoes until they warm through and put on top of your pasta. It's delicious!

1 comment:

  1. ohhhh wow i really want to try this one. it doesnt sound too hard. i am an easy cook...i can do easy. complicated and time-consuming..not so much :)

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