How To Make Bacon Carbonara Pasta
Homemade carbonara pasta might seem intimidating to most, but this proves that it’s anything but that. This five-ingredient recipe also has peas and bacon.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1lbspaghetti
- 10slicesbacon,cut into small pieces
- 3large eggs yolks
- ½tspkosher salt
- ¼tspcoarse ground black pepper
- 1cupparmesan,shaved
- 1cupfrozen peas
Instructions
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Cook the pasta in a large pot to one minute less than the directions on the box and keep ½ cup of pasta water to the side to drain pasta. Do not rinse pasta.
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In a large skillet add the bacon and cook it until crisp then turn off the heat and remove the bacon with a slotted spoon. Add the pasta and toss it in the bacon fat.
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Add the eggs, salt, pepper and Parmesan cheese to a large bowl and whisk well before adding slowly while tossing the hot pasta quickly to prevent it from scrambling.
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Add in ¼ cup of the pasta water and peas, tossing again to create a saucy consistency to the pasta then topping with bacon before serving.
Nutrition
- Calories: 623.98kcal
- Fat: 29.08g
- Saturated Fat: 11.53g
- Trans Fat: 0.06g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 11.43g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 4.08g
- Carbohydrates: 61.27g
- Fiber: 3.45g
- Sugar: 3.86g
- Protein: 27.34g
- Cholesterol: 140.98mg
- Sodium: 693.75mg
- Calcium: 328.04mg
- Potassium: 331.80mg
- Iron: 1.97mg
- Vitamin A: 112.03µg
- Vitamin C: 4.02mg
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