Roman-Style Authentic Carbonara
- 100 grams Pasta of your choice
- 3 eggs' worth (A) Egg yolk (you could also use 1 whole egg and 1 egg yolk)
- 1 (A) Parmesan cheese
- 1 clove Garlic (finely chopped)
- 1/5 or 1/6 Onion (finely chopped, optional)
- 1 Bacon (or pancetta is even better) (cut into 1 cm thick pieces)
- 30 ml Extra virgin olive oil
- 1 Black pepper (preferably coarsely ground)
- Fill a large pot with 3 liters of water and bring it to boil.
- This is the water to be used for cooking the pasta.
- Once the water begins to boil, add 2 tablespoons of salt (this amount is equal to 1% of the weight of the water).
- The amount of salt used in Step 1 will also add flavor.
- Measure out the salt carefully.
- When the pasta water comes to a boil, turn the heat down very low to have it ready.
- Prepare and cut the garlic, bacon, and onion as noted in the ingredient list.
- Combine the "A" ingredients and a dash each of salt and pepper in a bowl and mix well.
- * I use a small amount of salt and pepper since a lot of the salt will come from the bacon.
- To drain the pasta, place a strainer over the top of another bowl, which should be larger than the bowl in Step 4.
- Prepare this beforehand in order to quickly use it as a double broiler.
- Combine the olive oil, garlic, and bacon in an unheated frying pan and heat over low heat.
- * Thoroughly transfer the fragrance of each of the ingredients to the oil.
- When the garlic from Step 6 becomes a light beige color, add the onion, salt, and pepper and heat over medium heat.
- When the onion from Step 7 becomes translucent, remove from heat.
- Add the pasta to the boiling water from Step 2 and boil over low heat.
- When the pasta is cooked to al dente, drain the pasta in the strainer from Step 5 and preserve the water in the bowl underneath.
- Add the cooked pasta to the frying pan in Step 8 and mix well over a low-medium heat.
- Add one ladle's worth of pasta water (or, if you're using a whole egg, add 0.6 ladle's worth) and the contents of the frying pan to the bowl in Step 4.
- Place the bowl in Step 11 over the top of the bowl containing the remaining pasta water to create a double broiler.
- Heat the pasta and sauce using this method and mix well.
- (Tip) This carbonara only uses egg for the sauce, so the sauce should become hard around the edges of the bowl.
- Continuously mix quickly, focusing on the edges of the bowl.
- Once the egg sauce has reached a preferred thickness, transfer the sauce and pasta onto a plate, add plenty of black pepper, and you're done!
- I sliced Parmesan cheese and used it as a topping.
- Crisp bacon would also be really delicious.
- Even though only egg is used for the sauce, by using a double broiler and adding a lot of the pasta water will produce a creamy sauce without lumps.
- If you have any leftover egg yolks, be sure to give this recipe a try!
- Here's a delicious way of making Authentic Carbonara..
- Try this too!
- Also try this version - "Tomato Carbonara With Plenty Of Bacon".
- It's quite addictive.
pasta of your choice, eggs, parmesan cheese, clove garlic, onion, bacon, olive oil, black pepper
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/155750-roman-style-authentic-carbonara (may not work)