Mama Ashley's Pasta alla Carbonara. Mama Ashley's Pasta alla Carbonara A rich and delicious pasta! The best pasta shapes for carbonara sauce. Carbonara sauce wants long pasta and spaghetti are your shapes of choice.
However, linguine, fettuccine, bucatini and rigatoni can also be used.
Rigatoni is the second most popular pasta for carbonara in Rome.
The recipe I used is one that my Italian hubby follows.
You can cook Mama Ashley's Pasta alla Carbonara using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Mama Ashley's Pasta alla Carbonara
- It's 1 of half pound uncooked bacon bits.
- It's 1 tbsp. of bacon grease.
- It's 2 tbsp. of chopped garlic in oil.
- It's 3 tbsp. of butter.
- You need 1 pound of uncooked spaghetti.
- Prepare 1 quart of Half and Half.
- It's 1.5 cups of FRESH grated parm.
- Prepare 2 of uncooked, scrambled eggs.
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Mama Ashley's Pasta alla Carbonara step by step
- Cook 1 pound spaghetti until al dente. (Not completely cooked, but almost.) Cool pasta and drizzle with a tbsp. olive oil, and set pasta aside..
- In large pan, cook bacon bits with bacon grease over med-high heat. Until bacon bits are brick red in color or well done..
- Reduce heat, and add garlic. Cook until garlic is browned. (The garlic will burn quickly, so be careful with this step.).
- Add 3 tbsp. butter and melt down..
- Add about 3/4 of your quart of half and half. Save the rest for reheating the pasta..
- Add spaghetti, and bring to boil until it reduces. You want the half and half to rise to the top of the pan, and then reduce. This usually takes around 10-12 minutes..
- Remove from heat and add FRESH grated parm..
- Once the parm is well mixed in and melted, add 2 raw eggs. (I like to scramble mine before adding).
- Enjoy!!!.
Spaghetti alla Carbonara is not difficult to make and requires just a few simple, but standard, required ingredients. It really does not vary much from one recipe to the next. This recipe is a fundamental, basic reference recipe. I find it a little easier to mix the (room temperature) egg and cheese in a bowl and then add the cooked pasta to. Espaguetis carbonara (Spaghetti alla carbonara) Hoy vamos a preparar los auténticos espaguetis con salsa carbonara, reivindicando la receta original.