Cheap and Easy Spaghetti Carbonara is a family fave!
This spaghetti carbonara is one of our family’s absolute favorite dinners! We like to serve it with grilled chicken breast or a whole roasted chicken in order to up the protein content of the meal. In fact, I’m writing this post on a day on which we plan to have pasta carbonara for dinner. (We tend to serve this cheap and easy pasta recipe up on Mondays but no one really knows why!)
This is also an excellent dinner to have on busy nights when I have failed to plan because we usually have most of the ingredients for spaghetti carbonara on hand. We tend to eat this especially often in the spring when our chickens are laying tons of eggs! It’s even better with homegrown bacon, but you’ll get no judgment from me if yours came from the store!
This creamy bacon and eggs pasta carbonara recipe is sure to please even the picky eaters in your family! My four-year-old gobbles it up and he tends to turn his wee nose up at most things I serve for supper! If you try the recipe I would love to hear what you think of it!
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Spaghetti Carbonara
Ingredients
- 6 slices bacon chopped
- 1 whole onion finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic finely chopped
- 1 lb spaghetti
- 1/4 cup white wine
- 3 whole eggs
- 1/4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 2 tbsp heavy cream
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook spaghetti in large pot of boiling salted water,according to package directions until al dente
- Meanwhile, heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add bacon and fry until almost crispy.
- Add onion and cook gently for 5 minutes or until soft but notcolored.
- Add garlic and cook for another minute.
- Add wine and simmer until mostly evaporated.
- In a mixing bowl, lightly beat eggs with parmesan, cream, choppedparsley, salt and pepper.
- Drain spaghetti, return to pan with bacon and onion mixture. Remove from heat and mix well.
- Temper egg mixture by adding some of the pasta to the mixing bowl.
- Transfer remaining pasta mixture to serving bowl. Pour egg mixture over pasta in serving bowland stir to combine. The heat from thespaghetti will cook the eggs.
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