Making your own carbonara sauce is not as hard as you may think, here’s a simple tutorial on how you can do it too.

This sauce is ideal for pasta dishes.

Ingredients

8 Slices of bacon cut into small pieces (use whatever kind of bacon you like)

4 tbsp Butter

2 Eggs

2 Egg Yolks

1 Cup of parmesan cheese

1 tsp Red pepper flakes

½ Cup of heavy cream

Salt & Black Pepper

Start this carbonara sauce by mixing the butter in a bowl until creamed. In a separate bowl beat the 2 eggs and 2 egg yolks until blended well. Next add the parmesan cheese to this bowl.

(If you’re making pasta boil the water and cook this now, also heat the serving bowls).

Next fry the bacon until it has become nice and crispy (the crispier the better). Next drain ½ the cooking fat from the frying pan and stir in the red pepper flakes and ½ cup of cream. Simmer this cream mixture and keep warm.

When your pasta is cooked, drain and thoroughly stir in the butter, coating all the pasta well. Stir in the hot bacon and cream mixture, and then the beaten eggs and parmesan cheese mixture, the heat from the pasta will cook the raw eggs.

Finally add the pasta portions to the hot serving bowls, season to taste and serve with grated parmesan cheese on top.

Carbonara sauce also goes tremendously well with mushrooms. Following the same guide above when cooking the bacon, add add chopped mushrooms to the frying pan.

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