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Carbonara
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes
Serves: 4 People
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- Prep time: 20 minutes
- Cook time: 10 minutes
- Total time: 30 minutes
- Serves: 4 People
Ingredients
- 400 g Dried pasta, (ideally spaghetti but use whatever you have!!)
- 200 g Speck, (or bacon, pancetta) - leave out if vego (can sub for mushrooms)
- 4 Eggs
- 1/2 cup Parmesan or pecorino cheese, + extra to serve
- Flat leaf parsley
- 1 Lemon
- Pepper
Method
- 1)
Get two pots on the stove top (pot for pasta and pan for speck), put both on low heat.
- 2)
Boil your kettle for your pasta, if don’t have kettle fill pot with water and put on high heat.
- 3)
Slice speck/bacon into a chunky dice.
- 4)
Increase heat of pan to medium to high, add olive oil then add the speck. Cook until crispy.
- 5)
Put pasta on once kettle has boiled or water in pot is boiled. Set timer for el dente as per cooking instructions.
- 6)
Crack eggs into bowl.
- 7)
Add grated Parmesan, lemon zest, black pepper to bowl.
- 8)
Give a whisk together.
- 9)
Drain off pasta once el dente reserving a little bit of water in the bottom.
- 10)
Add pasta into pan with speck off the heat, add your egg mixture in and stir through.
- 11)
Add chopped flat leaf parsley and squeeze of lemon.
- 12)
Serve.