Friday 21 November 2008

Ultimate spaghetti carbonara

Ingredients:

  • 100 gr pancetta
  • 50 gr pecorino cheese
  • 50 gr parmesan
  • 3 eggs
  • 350 gr of spaghetti (de cecco are the best)
  • 2 plump garlic cloves peeled
  • 50 gr of butter
  • salt and greated black pepper

Method:

  1. Put a large saucepan of wather on boil.Chop the pancetta.Grate both cheese and mix them together.Beat the eggs in a bowl and add a tach of black pepper.Set everything a side.
  2. Add salt to boiling water,add the spaghetti and cook at a constant simmer for 10 minutes or untill "al dente"
  3. While the spaghetti is cooking,fry the pancetta whit garlic.Drop the butter into a frying pan and as soon as has melted,add to the pancetta and garlic.Leve those to cook for about 5 min,untill the pancetta is golden and crispy and then take off the garlic.
  4. When the pasta is ready lift it from the water with a pasta fork and put it in the frying pan with the pancetta.
  5. Mix most of the cheese with the eggs,kiping a small handfull back.Take tha pan of spaghetti and pancetta off the heat .Now quikly pour in the eggs and cheese,using a long fork lift up the spaghetti so it mixes easily with the eggs mixture,and everything is coated.
  6. Serve immediatly with a little sprinkling of the remain cheese and a gratting of black pepper.

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