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Spaghetti Carbonara

A very famous Italian pasta recipe: egg yolks, cream, bacon, Parmesan and lemon juice.

286,989 24.0/5 for 56 ratings

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Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

For 6 people, you will need:

0 500 g spaghetti
1 4 egg yolks
2 200 ml cream
3 200 g small pieces of bacon
4 ½ lemon
5 Parmigiano reggiano (Parmesan)
6 salt
7 pepper
Total weight: 1,045 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
7 min.	17 min.	24 min.

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Keeping:

Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.

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

You can use the same recipe with other pasta like penne, tortellini etc.

And to drink?

A red Italian wine like Barbera d'Asti

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,649 Kcal or 15,278 Kj	100 gr	350 gr	205 gr
182 %	39 %	33 %	31 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
349 Kcal or 1,461 Kj	10 gr	33 gr	20 gr
17 %	4 %	3 %	3 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
608 Kcal or 2,546 Kj	17 gr	58 gr	34 gr
30 %	6 %	6 %	5 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 6 people : 3.07 €
Per person : 0.51 €

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Source

Home made.

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	Small pieces of bacon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cocotte eggs with Comté, Beef braised in reduced red wine, Truffade, Alsatian-style salad, Fougasse with bacon and Comté, ... All
	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate cake, Potimarron and Parmesan tart, Baker's chicken and potato tart, Crunchy verrines, Individual creamy endive gratins, ... All
	Egg yolk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Steamed leeks with morel sabayon, Hazelnut and orange cake, Gâteau Breton (Brittany butter cake), Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse, Butter cream, ... All

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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)
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)

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