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Easy Carbonara Sauce
Brigette Anderson
"Quick way to make a really tasty carbonara-style pasta sauce. Serve over cooked pasta."
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Ingredients
30 m servings 231 calsOriginal recipe yields 6 servings
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- Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain all but about 2 tablespoons bacon drippings from skillet. Cook and stir onion with bacon in reserved drippings until onion is translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Add garlic; cook and stir until fragrant, 2 minutes.
- Pour Alfredo sauce into onion-bacon mixture; rinse jar with the water and pour into skillet. Stir sauce with a wooden spoon, thoroughly scraping any brown bits of food from bottom of the skillet. Bring sauce to a simmer; add tomatoes. Simmer sauce until flavors blend, about 5 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
Per Serving: 231 calories; 20.3 g fat; 6.9 g carbohydrates; 6.8 g protein; 33 mg cholesterol; 761 mg sodium. Full nutrition
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2/15/2013
So delicious! And so quick to make! Perfect for a wholesome week night meal. I was concerned about the lack of seasonings, but due to the saltiness from the bacon, and the seasonings from the...
2/28/2013
I totally made this last night!! It was amazing! I chose a roasted red pepper alfredo so I diced up some red pepper and sauted it with the onions!! Soooooooooo goooooood! Great recipe!
1/14/2014
This was a great base recipe for carbonara! All I did different was use Oscar Meyer Turkey bacon ( it's the best) because I can't eat pork, added 2 cups peas to the sauce and used 1/2 cup dry wh...
6/26/2013
This was delicious! I've been looking for an easy good recipe and had no luck until this one. It's great. Thank you!!!
2/17/2018
This was pretty tasty. I did sub chicken broth for the water. My daughter loved it!
5/7/2015
I grilled chicken tenders and used a can of drained tomatoes. We LOVED this recipe. Will be making this again for sure!
12/2/2014
Perfect....easy....delicious. I added frozen peas and a 1lb of chicken. Yummy.
8/24/2014
This recipe was SO good and easy to make! I added baby shrimp, scallops and peas to my sauce and served it over steamed, mashed cauliflower (my family is eliminating pasta). It was amazing!!!