Creamy bacon linguine

Name: Creamy bacon linguine
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 tbsp unsalted butter; 2 tbsp all-purpose flour; 1 1/2 cups whole milk; 100 g cambozola cheese; 7 strips smoky bacon; 350 g dried linguine noodles; 3 cloves garlic, finely sliced; 1 shallot, finely chopped; 1 handful fresh Italian parsley, roughly chopped

Robert Gonzal @robert

Vancouver BC

Back when I was a wee sprout, before I knew the joys of making my own pasta sauces, my go-to sauce began with Classico brand, roasted garlic alfredo flavour. To it I'd add even more garlic and an obscene amount of bacon, including all the fat that rendered out. Diet, it wasn't. Tasty, you betcha. This recipe is a slightly less artery-clogging but just as rich version of that one. The bechemel can be made ahead of time and kept in the fridge, covered with a bit of plastic wrap (make sure the wrap touches the sauce surface to avoid a skin forming).

Robert Gonzal @robert

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Ingredients

45 minutes

4 servings

2 tbspunsalted butter
2 tbspall-purpose flour
1 1/2 cupswhole milk
100 gcambozola cheese
7 stripssmoky bacon
350 gdried linguine noodles
3 clovesgarlic, finely sliced
1shallot, finely chopped
1 handfulfresh Italian parsley, roughly chopped

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Steps

45 minutes

1

Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the flour and whisk until the foaming slows but before the roux starts to darken (5 to 10 minutes). Keep whisking as you pour in the milk. Once the bechemel starts to thicken, add the cheese a little at a time and let it melt. Keep cooking until the sauce coats the back of a spoon. Stir in salt and cracked white pepper to taste. Take the pan off the heat and fish out any unmelted bits of rind and cheese vein.
2

Cook the bacon in a large pan until crispy. Remove the bacon to drain on a paper towel lined plate and spoon out all but a few tbsp oil from the pan.
3

Drop the pasta into a large pot of boiling salted water.
4

Add the garlic and shallot to the pan you used for the bacon. Fry for 2 minutes until fragrant. Stir in the bechamel and turn the heat down to minimum, just to keep it warm.
5

Once cooked, drag the pasta into the pan of sauce. Add the parsley and toss. The pasta may be very thick, so add pasta cooking water as required to loosen it. Crumble the bacon, and sprinkle it on top of the pasta when serving.