Recipe: Perfect Spaghetti Carbonara

Spaghetti Carbonara. Spaghetti Pasta Carbonara—indulgent and delicious, yet so easy! This is a near perfect and flawless recipe for the classic Spaghetti alla Carbonara. And even it it wasn't, who cares?

By Lindsay Funston and Lauren Miyashiro. When you're craving a comfort food, nothing—I repeat, NOTHING—will cure you like creamy carbonara. Discover how to make our best spaghetti carbonara recipe. You can cook Spaghetti Carbonara using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Spaghetti Carbonara

1. You need of Dried or fresh spaghetti (check packet for amount per serving).
2. Prepare of Chopped smoked bacon or lardons.
3. You need 2-3 of eggs.
4. Prepare of Parmesan.
5. It's of Generous dash of olive oil.
6. It's of Creme fraiche (optional).
7. It's of Parsley.

This cheesy pasta dish is an Italian favourite. A recipe triple-tested by the BBC Good Food team. Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Because America may have contributed to its creation, carbonara is Exhibit A in the back-and-forth between Italy and.

Spaghetti Carbonara step by step

1. Cook the spaghetti for the required time..
2. While the spaghetti is cooking, fry the bacon/lardon in olive oil until a little bit crunchy. Turn the cooker off so the bacon doesn't burn. It's best to fry the bacon/lardon in a largish, heavy bottomed saucepan as you will be adding the spaghetti to it and need it to retain the heat..
3. When the spaghetti is cooked, spoon it into the bacon/lardon mix (retaining the spaghetti water) and give it a good mix to spread the flavour and coat the spaghetti in olive oil. Heat it further if you wish but not too much as it will dry up and fry..
4. Beat the eggs. Grate a good couple of handfuls of parmesan into the beaten eggs then pour the eggs and parmesan into the spaghetti mix; mix them in quickly and thoroughly. The eggs should cook in the hot mixture..
5. If it looks too dry add a few table spoons of water from the spaghetti saucepan..
6. Stir in a tablespoon of creme fraiche and season to taste..
7. Pour into a serving dish, top with a generous amount of grated parmesan and garnish with parsley. Job done..

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