Spaghetti Carbonara was one of my favorite meals growing up. I’d always ask for it when my opinion was asked and I always wondered why Mom was reluctant to cook it too often. Now that I’m grown up I quite understand her reluctance. This has been one of my Tried and True Recipes that I don’t even look at the recipe card anymore, unless I’m trying to change things up a little.
Spaghetti Carbonara could also be called a heart attack in a dish.
I do not exaggerate a lot.
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Spaghetti Carbonara Recipe Ingredients
Ingredients: 4 eggs, 1 pound of bacon, 1/4 cup about parmesan cheese, 1/2-1 pound of spaghetti noodles cooked to taste, salt to taste in the water
How to make Spaghetti Carbonara
- Set water to boil for noodles. Meanwhile, heat the pan to cook the bacon and start cooking the bacon.
- As the bacon cooks beat the eggs together and add in a pile of parmesan (if you’re actually measuring the recipe my Mom gave me says 1/4 cup).
- Drain the noodles and add them to the bacon grease (the recipe says 3-4 tablespoons, but my Mom always just seemed to add most of it, I drain off some amount of the grease, so it’s not overwhelming).
- In a frenzy of activity pour in the egg mixture and mix it into the bacon grease coated noodles. The heat from the bacon grease will cook the eggs, and you’ll have a delicious if unhealthy meal.
- Oh, somewhere in there cut the bacon up into bite-sized pieces. Sometimes I am able to do this while the noodles are still cooking, sometimes I complete this step at the very end.
- Add the bite-sized bacon into your noodles and mix it all up.
- Eat the delicious mess of yumminess and think to yourself this is delicious, but I shouldn’t eat it too often. Then regret how rarely you should really eat it.
Future Ticia 2025 has found a recipe card to add in, so let me drop that in here.
Spaghetti Carbonara
This is a great comfort food to eat once in a blue moon, because it is not in the least bit healthy, but it is delicious.
Ingredients
- 1 pound of bacon, diced, reserve 3-4 tablespoons of the grease after it has cooked
- 1/4 cup of grated parmesan
- 1/2 pound of spaghetti noodles
- 4 eggs
- Optional minced garlic cloves
Instructions
- Set a pot of salted water to boiling. As that is starting to boil, start cooking the bacon. Once the water is boiling, add the noodles.
- While the bacon and noodles are cooking, scramble the eggs, then add in the parmesan. If adding garlic cloves, mix it into the egg and parmesan mixture.
- When the noodles are to the desired level of doneness, drain, and mix with the reserved bacon grease.
- Next mix together the egg parmesan mixture with the noodle bacon grease mixture while over the heat.
- Finally, add in the diced bacon, mixing it up to create the spaghetti carbonara, and enjoy.
Hmmm, it keeps having an exclamation mark which indicates something is wrong, and I don’t know why. Technology has not been my friend for all of March.
Okay, got that fixed. At least I’ve been able to fix one technology problem this week.
More delicious recipes to make
- Sugar cookies
- Chicken and Dumplings
- Simple Scone recipe
- Crockpot chicken parmesan
- Cyprus– we made a delicious sesame cookie, which I need to remake soon
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