Step by step recipe

Stage 1

10 min.

Cook 500 g spaghetti.

Stage 2

5 min.

Meanwhile make sauce: in a bowl put 4 egg yolks, 200 ml cream, salt and pepper.

Beat to mix well, then add juice of ½ lemon and some grated Parmesan, whip again, sauce is ready.

Stage 3

5 min.

In a pan on medium heat, put 200 g small pieces of bacon and cook until lightly browned.

Reduce heat.

Stage 4

2 min.

Keeping bacon pan over low heat, tip in cooked pasta and mix well.

Stage 5

2 min.

Add sauce and continue to mix for about two minutes.

Stage 6

Your spaghetti carbonara is ready. Grate some more Parmesan over, and put the pan in the centre of the table so that your guests can serve themselves and come back for more.

Remarks

Nutritional information

How much will it cost?

• For 6 people : 3.07 €
• Per person : 0.51 €

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Your 2 comments or questions on this recipe

• I really appreciate your site: I hope you will not be offended if I remark that spaghetti alla carbonara canonically does not contain any lemon whatsoever. There can be differences of opinion as to the technique, some people mix the sauce and the pasta on a burner, some do it off the burner and count on the pasta residual heat to cook the eggs. But the lemon will really change the taste. And I do not say that it does not taste good! But it is not carbonara any more...
  Posted by Walter Aprile march 25^th 2009 at 16:51 (n° 1)
• For Walter Aprile : I'm not offended (at all !), I love when people suggest or comment recipes like you do. But Walter I'm terribly sorry to not agree with you, THERE IS (some) lemon juice in carbonara pasta, otherwise it will be only pasta with cream and eggs sauce. Lemon juice give an indispensable small acidity wich is very important in the egg-cream-cheese mix, which could be a bit too soft otherwise. If you have time, please try pasta with it, and come back to the website to tell us what you think about that. In the same way, I've meet an Italian lady who said that if you don't add white pepper, or black pepper instead, you will not make carbonara...
  Posted by jh march 25^th 2009 at 19:53 (n° 2)

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