Italian · serves 2
Pasta Carbonara
Four ingredients, no cream, and it's over in fifteen minutes if you keep your nerve.
Ingredients
- 250g spaghetti
- 3 eggs + 1 yolk
- 1 cup grated parmesan or any hard cheese
- 150g bacon, pancetta or mushrooms
- 2 tsp black pepper, coarsely crushed
- Salt
Method
- Beat the eggs with the cheese and a lot of black pepper into a thick paste. No cream. Ever.
- Boil the pasta in well-salted water. Save two mugs of the water.
- Crisp the bacon or mushrooms in a wide pan. Take the pan OFF the heat.
- Drained pasta into the pan, toss 30 seconds to cool it slightly.
- Now the egg mixture, with a splash of pasta water, tossing hard and fast. Off the heat the whole time — on the heat you get scrambled eggs.
- More pasta water till it's glossy and coats the strands. Serve immediately.