Carbonara
Not Updated for Ages Time: 20 min Yields: serves Cost: $4.86 per serve Difficulty: 5/10
From Jamie Oliver which felt like an odd choice but his video had so many great tips and he was so excited about it. Twist spaghetti into pot to stop it clumping.
Ingredients
- Spaghetti 200 grams
- Pancetta (with skin on) 150 grams (80g skinned)
- Pecorino cheese 20 grams (plus more to serve)
- Garlic 1 clove
- Eggs (yolks) 3 whole
Steps
- Boil pot of water for spaghetti.
- Remove hard skin from pancetta and reserve, dice the meat 5mm.
- Crush garlic with side of knife, don't peel.
- Finely grate the cheese.
- Separate yolk into bowl and combine with cheese. Add pepper if not already on the cheese or pancetta.
- Rub skin on cold pan, add garlic and pancetta then heat to medium-high, cook for 10 minutes from cold, until crisped.
- Once pan is hot, add spaghetti to water, cook 8 minutes.
- Remove pan from heat, discard garlic.
- With tongs move spaghetti from pot to pan, toss through. Splash water across enough to stop the pan sizzling.
- Pour in the egg mixture and toss well and then done.
