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Pasta alla Carbonara
Erin Clifton
"This was always a family favorite. Easy to reheat. Great as a side dish. Timing is important for success. Toss the sauce with HOT noodles: the eggs continue to cook on the HOT noodles."
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Ingredients
servings 560 calsOriginal recipe yields 16 servings
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Directions
{{model.addEditText}} Print- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute onions in oil until tender. Drain on paper towels.
- Using the same pan, cook mushrooms in butter over medium heat. Stir in onions and bacon; reduce heat to low, and cook until bacon browns. In a medium bowl, beat together eggs, cream, and cheese; mix into bacon mixture. Cook, stirring, until the sauce begins to thicken. Remove from heat.
- Meanwhile, cook pasta in a large pot of boiling water until done. Drain. Toss hot noodles with sauce, parsley and red pepper flakes.
Nutrition Facts
Per Serving: 560 calories; 37.6 g fat; 36.4 g carbohydrates; 19.4 g protein; 198 mg cholesterol; 589 mg sodium. Full nutrition
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Most helpful positive review
1/24/2004
Not bad, but carbonara should have a much more intense bacon taste. Also, where is the garlic?? Here are my changes. Use 3/4 of the pasta. When cooking the onions add 2-3 cloves (or to taste...
Most helpful critical review
10/13/2004
Perhaps when scaling the recipe down it altered the overall flavor of the dish, but whatever it was, it started a fight with my hubby over what real Pasta alla Carbonara is. The taste wasn't hor...
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1/24/2004
Not bad, but carbonara should have a much more intense bacon taste. Also, where is the garlic?? Here are my changes. Use 3/4 of the pasta. When cooking the onions add 2-3 cloves (or to taste...
10/12/2010
This was a good recipe. I used half and half instead of whipping cream to save a little on the calorie side. I also found two pounds of bacon to be too much. One thing to improve upon would be...
10/13/2004
Perhaps when scaling the recipe down it altered the overall flavor of the dish, but whatever it was, it started a fight with my hubby over what real Pasta alla Carbonara is. The taste wasn't hor...
10/13/2010
This is not a traditional carbonara, but it is a delicious pasta dish. I followed the recipe exactly, but quartered the ingredients. Be warned when reducing the recipe - remove the pan from the ...
10/22/2001
super easy and very yummy! didn't have any mushrooms so i tossed in some peas and a tomato and it turned out great! thanks!
11/6/2009
I agreed with the comment on garlic definatly needed it I also made this a basic one dish meal added garlic, cut carrots, yellow pepper, and brocolli to the mix and it came out very tasty
3/4/2008
I thought this was wonderful and the whole family agreed. Boyfriend had three helpings! I followed the recommendations to add the parsley and red pepper to the egg mixture before adding it to ...
10/16/2010
We enoyed this very much. All the ingrdients can be easily altered but I think the heavy cream/egg/parm turned out to be a little bland. Perhaps a sharper cheese? or make this pasta dish like an...