Italian dishes are becoming more and more frequent guests of our menu every day. This also applies to spaghetti carbonara. The best recipes for such a treat are published below.

Classic Italian Carbonara Recipe

Ingredients: 220 g spaghetti, 5 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil, 2 chicken eggs, 140 g of Pecorino cheese, 160 g of bacon (ideally Pancetta), salt, ground pepper.

  1. Italian or regular bacon is cut into thin slices. It is advisable to choose meat slices.
  2. Cheese is very finely grated.
  3. Eggs beat with a whisk until foam. Yolks and proteins should mix well.
  4. Half of the crushed cheese, salt, pepper are poured to the beaten eggs.
  5. The rest of it is also slightly perky.
  6. Pasta is boiled until half cooked. A couple of spoons of refined oil is poured into the water. This will help prevent sticking.
  7. In a heated skillet, bacon is fried until crusty. Then a mixture of 4 steps is poured onto it.

To exactly repeat the classic Italian carbonara recipe, you need to put a portion of pasta on a plate, pour them with sauce and sprinkle with the remaining cheese.

How to cook with ham?

Ingredients: half a pound of pasta, 270 g of ham, 60 g of parmesan, fresh garlic to taste, 4 egg yolks, half a glass of fat cream, salt, a little olive oil.

  1. The oil is heated, and small cubes of garlic (3-4 cloves) are fried on it.
  2. Next, a straw of ham is sent to the pan. If the product is oily, the amount of oil should be reduced to a minimum.
  3. Pasta is slightly undercooked.
  4. For the sauce, the yolks, cream, finely grated cheese, salt are combined. You can add a little ground pepper.
  5. Hot spaghetti mixed with sauce. The mixed components should stand for 5-6 minutes.

The finished dish is laid out on hot plates and sprinkled with plenty of fried ham cubes.

With bacon and cream

Ingredients: 230 g of spaghetti, 130 g of raw smoked bacon, 120 ml of very fat cream, 4 egg yolks, dried garlic, 60 g of parmesan or its analogues, salt, fresh parsley.

  1. Bacon is cut into thin, approximately equal stripes. They need to be fried in a skillet until golden brown. The meat is sprinkled with dried garlic.
  2. Parsley leaves are chopped with a knife. They also go to the pan with the rest of the food.
  3. For the sauce, mix the yolks and half the grated cheese. Cream is also poured here. You can add Provencal herbs to your taste.
  4. Spaghetti is boiled in salt water. Better not digest them than digest! The latter option can completely ruin the dish.
  5. The sauce is combined with hot pasta. Fried garlic bacon and the remaining grated cheese are laid on top of the serving.

Ready-made spaghetti carbonara with bacon and cream are immediately served on the table.

Mushroom Paste

Ingredients: 240 g of spaghetti, 180 g of hard cheese (if parmesan is used, then its amount can be reduced), 170 g of bacon, a full glass of fat cream, 170 g of fresh champignons, a pinch of dried basil, salt.

  1. Pasta is boiled in salted water. In the end, they should be a little solid and undercooked. To prevent the spaghetti from sticking together, you just need to add a little vegetable oil to the water.
  2. Bacon is cut into thin strips. Mushrooms - slices. Together, these products are fried in a pan for 7-8 minutes.
  3. When the meat with mushrooms is browned, you can pour cream on them. At minimum heat, the mass should remain until thickened.
  4. It remains to mix the resulting sauce with hot pasta just pulled out of the water.

The finished treat is laid out on a plate and sprinkled with dried basil. All other seasonings are allowed.

Spaghetti carbonara with chicken

Ingredients: 430 g of chicken, 1 leek, 4 branches of thyme, 270 g of pasta, a pinch of ground pepper (black), 320 g of fresh mushrooms (best of all, champignons), fresh garlic, 3 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil, 70 g of parmesan, salt, half a liter of cream of medium fat content.

  1. Chicken fillet is cut into small slices. Mushrooms - in thin slices. Onion - with rings. Garlic is cut into small cubes. Its amount must be adjusted to your taste.
  2. Slices of chicken are fried in olive oil. When they turn white, mushrooms, garlic and onions spill out into the pan. Together, the ingredients cook for another 8-9 minutes.
  3. The mass in a pan is sprinkled with chopped thyme, salted, and pepper. Cream is pouring in there. Everything is mixed up.
  4. Separately, pasta is boiled and laid out in a pan. It is desirable that they turn out slightly undercooked. The side dish will reach the desired state in hot sauce.

The treat is laid out on plates and only after that is sprinkled with finely grated cheese.

Cooking in a slow cooker

Ingredients: 260 g of spaghetti, 160 g of parmesan, onion, a pinch of basil, 220 g of smoked brisket, a full glass of cream of medium fat content, garlic to taste, half a liter of water, egg, salt, pepper mixture.

  1. Smoked brisket is chopped into strips. Onions - in cubes. Instead of brisket, you can take bacon or even the most ordinary ham.
  2. In a "smart pan" any oil is heated. An olive component is always better for carbonara.
  3. In heated oil, meat and onions are fried. You need to do this in the Baking program for 8-9 minutes. Garlic is passed through a press and also sent to the bowl. Frying continues for a couple of minutes.
  4. Products are poured with cream. The mixture remains in the same mode until slightly thickened. It is necessary to stir it periodically.
  5. Spaghetti is broken into two parts and sent to a creamy sauce. At this stage, the constituents salt and pepper. Water is added. It is important that the spaghetti do not stick together and are completely covered with liquid.
  6. A dish is prepared in the "Spaghetti" or "Pilaf" mode until it is completed.
  7. A couple of minutes before the end of the program, the yolk with grated cheese is sent to the container.

After thorough mixing, the food is served on the table. You can cook carbonara paste in the microwave, including chicken.

Carbonara Pasta Sauce - Options

In order for the Italian dish under discussion to turn out to be truly delicious and satisfying, you need to prepare the appropriate spaghetti sauce.

Shrimp sauce

To prepare it, 130 g of Parmesan is finely rubbed, half a bunch of fresh dill is chopped, 3-4 cloves of garlic are finely chopped. These ingredients are combined, 2 raw yolks, 40 ml of olive oil, 90 ml of heavy cream, a mixture of peppers are added to them. All of them are well kneaded.

Separately, boiled 260 g of shrimp. Finished seafood is very finely chopped. They are added to the sauce at the end. To taste, you can pre-fry the shrimp in olive oil, only then grind and send to the sauce.

Mushroom sauce

For such a sauce, 170 g of any crushed fresh mushrooms with garlic is fried in olive oil. A glass of hot cream is poured into the pan. Finely grated Parmesan (160 g) is sent immediately to the other ingredients.

 

It is important to pour the prepared sauce only freshly cooked and still hot pasta. Only in this case they are well saturated with the components of the fill. Pour some freshly chopped basil into the dish for flavor.

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