The Perfect Carbonara. You want perfect strands of pasta glossed with a rich, silky sauce—not noodles tossed with scrambled eggs. Here's how to get pasta carbonara right, every time. Spaghetti carbonara is made with bacon (you can use pancetta, guanciale, or even regular breakfast bacon), cheese, and eggs.

This helps the distinctive salty cheese infuse the whole dish, giving it an intense richness for a truly perfect carbonara. For those who don't own a slow cooker, Barilla's Executive Chef, Andrea Tranchero, previously shared his secret for preparing the 'perfect' carbonara in a pot. Photograph: Dan Matthews/The Guardian A big plate of bacon and eggs for dinner - little wonder that this Roman classic is so popular in the UK. You can cook The Perfect Carbonara using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of The Perfect Carbonara

1. Prepare 150 grams of Pancetta.
2. You need 100 grams of Parmigiana Reggiano.
3. You need 3 large of Eggs.
4. Prepare 300 grams of Spaghetti or Linguine (bronze die is best).
5. It's 2 large of fresh garlic cloves, crushed and chopped.
6. You need 1 dash of olive oil, extra virgin.
7. It's 1 of handful of flatleaf parsley, chopped..
8. Prepare of salt.
9. Prepare of lots of freshly ground pepper.

TOP TIPS FOR THE PERFECT CARBONARA. Add Parmesan to your whisked eggs at the very beginning of the recipe. This helps the distinctive salty cheese infuse the whole dish, giving it an intense richness for a truly perfect carbonara. Flavour your pancetta with garlic while it fries, but take the cloves out before adding your pasta.

The Perfect Carbonara step by step

1. In essence Carbonara is just pasta with eggs and bacon. Forget cream as it's not needed. ☺.
2. Boil water and salt to taste (be careful not to scold yourself). Add spaghetti and cook for 9 minutes or until al denti (to the tooth).
3. Remove the rind and cut the pancetta into lardons (5-6mm little strips). Fry the lardons in olive oil over a medium heat until golden..
4. Add the chopped garlic, parsley and black pepper and cook for 30 seconds..
5. Add the cooked pasta to the pancetta, parsley and garlic as well as the beaten eggs and half the cheese. Mix well. If the mix is too stodgy you can always add a small amount of the pasta water to thin the sauce but be careful not to add to much..
6. Add salt and pepper to taste and cook until the egg is partial cooked but still moist and creamy..
7. Serve in warm serving bowl with the remaining cheese, black pepper, parsley and homemade garlic bread..

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