Cheesy Bacon Pasta

Name: Cheesy Bacon Pasta
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 180 g spaghetti; 80 g Bacon Lardons; Generous Handful Cheddar Cheese; Generous Handful Parmesan; 2 Cloves Garlic; Parsley; Olive Oil

Lloyd David @lloyd

Super quick pasta dish, everything cooks in the time it takes to boil the spaghetti, then it just needs to be combined.
Adjust the amount of cheese as you prefer, I like it cheesy so I add loads, but add a little less if you prefer it to be a bit more subtle.

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Ingredients

15 mins

2 servings

180 gspaghetti
80 gBacon Lardons
Generous Handful Cheddar Cheese
Generous Handful Parmesan
2 ClovesGarlic
Parsley
Olive Oil

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Steps

15 mins

1

Add the spaghetti to a pan of salted boiling water. Cook for approximately 7-8 minutes. The pasta will be finished off with the sauce, so you want it slightly underdone.
2

Slice the garlic as thin as possible, and fry on a gentle heat. You don't want to really brown these, just slowly cook them. When they start to slightly stick together, remove them from the pan.
3

Add the bacon lardons, turn up the heat so the fat can render down, and they start to go nice and crispy.
4

By now your spaghetti should be ready. It should still have a bite, and shouldn't be fully cooked. Save a cup of the pasta water and drain the rest.
5

Add the garlic back into the pan with the bacon, add the spaghetti, and a glug of the pasta water. Stirring constantly add the grated cheddar and parmesan. If you feel it needs loosening add some more of the pasta water, with the constant stirring the cheese should start to emulsify and form the sauce.
6

Keep an eye on your pasta, it's easy to overcook it at this stage, I like mine al dente, so try and complete this stage nice and quickly, as it's easy to over do it, and turn your spaghetti into mush.
7

Add the parsley, and you are good to go. I like to sprinkle with a generous amount of parmesan and black pepper and serve straight away. It needs to be eaten straight away, so make sure everyone is ready to eat.