Traditional Cream Free Carbonara. Traditional carbonara doesn't have any cream in it. It's creamy enough all on it's own, just from the eggs and parmesan cheese. And hey, don't get me wrong… there is nothing, I repeat, NOTHING wrong with a yummy pasta sauce made with cream - just not when it's carbonara!
First of get some salted water on the boil and add a good glug of olive oil. Also get a large saute pan on a medium heat; As the water is coming up to the boil cut the bacon into small squares or thin strips and crush or finly chop the garlic As Alberto went on to tell us, traditional carbonara pasta from the Parma/Bologna region is made with eggs instead of cream, yet the result is a lusciously creamy and super addictive pasta sauce that will have you licking your plate clean and looking for seconds. It's usually made with locally produced small goods such as guanciale or pancetta, but when cooking at home bacon is a super. You can cook Traditional Cream Free Carbonara using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Traditional Cream Free Carbonara
- It's 2 of whole egg, 1 egg yolk.
- It's 1 tsp of salt.
- You need 1/2 tsp of black pepper.
- Prepare 3 tbsp of Parmesan cheese power.
- Prepare 100 g of bacon cube, in French is Lardons.
- You need 1 clove of garlic.
- You need of Spaghetti for 2 people.
Great recipe for Traditional Cream Free Carbonara. The popular carbonara is cooked with tons of butter, heavy cream and fat bacon, makes it super greasy and sticky. But do you know that the traditional Italian carbonara is cream free? It's much healthier but also rich in taste.
Traditional Cream Free Carbonara step by step
- Boil the water, cook the spaghetti according to the instruction on the package, in the mean while, prepare the sauce..
- Heat the pan, add a little bit oil, add the bacon, slowly cook the bacon with median heat until all the bacon oil has come out and bacon become brown and crispy, if you feel there are too much oil, get a kitchen pepper and remover some of them in the pan. In the mean time the spaghetti should be nearly cooked..
- Add the chopped garlic to the pan, cook it with bacon a little bit until the smell has come out, or you can choose to cook it a little bit more like until golden brown..
- Prepare the egg sauce, whisk eggs and egg yolk together, add Parmesan, salt, pepper. Mix them well together. This is the traditional carbonara sauce, its creamy, rich and healthy..
- Turn off the heat. Add freshly cooked spaghetti to the bacon pan(don't add too much spaghetti water), remove the pan from the heat, quick stir to mix the spaghetti with the bacon, garlic and bacon oil.(finish this part in 15 second).
- 15 second after removed from the pan(get a perfect temperature, not too hot to cook the egg, not too cold to get soup noodle), quickly add the egg sauce to spaghetti, stir it quickly, prevent the scrambled egg:), you will get a creamy texture..
- Add additional Parmesan powder on the top as you like, and enjoy !.
Spaghetti alla Carbonara: When it's good, it can make your eyes roll back in your head with pleasure. It lurks there, beckoning, batting its eyelashes on Italian menus. When you don't order it, you usually end up wishing you had. Do you ever make it at home? It's basically just bacon, eggs, and pasta.