Spaghetti Carbonara

#myitalian #worldonplateCarbonara is an Italian pasta dish from Rome. The ingredients consist of pancetta / guanciale (or can be replaced with smoked bacon), egg / egg yolk mixed with hard cheese such as Parmesan or Pecorino Romano and black pepper. Spaghetti is the most common pasta, but fettuccine, rigatoni, linguine, or bucatini are also used. Which kind of pasta would you prefer?If you like my recipes, please follow my Instagram @jenscookingdiary @jenscookdineandtravel

yum! :hungry

Always delicious

so simple :)

I've always liked carbonara, and I was a bit surprised to learn later on that the original Italian recipe uses no cream but only eggs. Normally the recipe uses guanciale or pancetta but finding either in this time of quarantine has proved impossible so I just used plain old bacon. This also includes my canonical method for cooking bacon. 🇮🇹🍝

There are hundreds of versions of this amazing dish. With cream or without? Whole eggs or just yolks? Pecorino, Parmesan cheese, or both? Guanciale, pancetta or bacon? This superb version is based on a recipe by food writer Daniel Gritzer.

This is the cheap version of creamy pasta carbonara. I came up with this recipe when I was a college student. A time when mozarella and parmesan are too expensive for a student's budget (^^)

I love pasta carbonara. This is the ratio I came up for the egg to cheese that I enjoyed the most. I prefer Romano to Parmesan due to the higher moisture content.