Carbonara. For a quick dinner, whip up Tyler Florence's authentic Spaghetti alla Carbonara recipe, a rich tangle of pasta, pancetta and egg, from Food Network. Humble ingredients—eggs, noodles, cheese, and pork—combine to create glossy, glorious pasta carbonara. It's the no-food-in-the-house dinner of our dreams.
Carbonara (Italian: [karboˈnaːra]) is an Italian pasta dish from Rome made with egg, hard cheese, cured pork, and black pepper.
The cheese is usually Pecorino Romano, Parmigiano-Reggiano, or a combination of the two.
Spaghetti is the most common pasta, but fettuccine, rigatoni, linguine, or bucatini.
You can have Carbonara using 6 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Carbonara
- Prepare 1 of pack of spaghetti.
- Prepare 1 of right amount of Parmesan cheese.
- Prepare 3 of eggs.
- You need 1 of egg yolk.
- Prepare 1 of plenty of pancetta.
- It's 1 of plenty of fresh black pepper.
In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook spaghetti according to package directions until al dente. In a medium bowl, whisk eggs and Parmesan until combined. Luscious and wonderfully indulgent, pasta carbonara takes as long to make as it does to cook the pasta. 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.
Carbonara step by step
- Set a pot of water on stove and bring to a boil. Water should be as salty as the ocean, but if your pancetta is salty cut back on salt here.
- Dice pancetta.
- In a large skillet, fry pancetta until crispy and drain excess fat..
- Grate parmesan.
- Combine eggs with grated cheese in mixing bowl.
- Add pasta, cook to just before all dente.
- With a ladle, add a scoop of pasta water to egg and cheese mixture to help it emulsify (in mixing bowl).
- With a pair of tongs, transfer pasta to skillet with pancetta.
- Add egg and cheese mixture to pasta in skillet..
- Add pasta water as needed and heat on low flame to get desired consistency..
- Add black pepper to taste.
- Garnish with fresh chives.
This is a favorite late-night dinner for my husband and I. John's favorite meal is carbonara; he always asks for it on his birthday. We also make it when he plays with his rock band. John doesn't like to eat dinner before a show so this has become our favorite midnight supper after a gig. I can't eat, think about, dream about, or even remotely consider Pasta Carbonara without thinking of Heartburn, the Meryl Streep/Jack Nicholson movie from the eighties that I both love and hate.