All-Day Breakfast Pasta (Carbonara)

A good quick and easy pasta dish. 

All-Day Breakfast Pasta (Carbonara)

Feeds 2

Ingredients

• 225g spaghetti, linguine or penne
• 225g best bacon (back or streaky), cut into bite size bits
• 2 tsps olive oil
• 2-3 large eggs
• Lots of Parmesan, grated
• Black pepper and salt
• A little butter
• 1 clove garlic, crushed

Recipe

• Put pasta on to cook. Meantime, heat oil in a frying pan.
• Fry bacon till crisp. Remove and keep warm.
• Beat eggs, half Parmesan, pepper, salt in a bowl.
• Drain pasta. Tip back in warm pan. Add bacon, a little butter, crushed garlic, toss in the egg mix.
• Sit pan back on very low heat for a few seconds. Stir till sauce coats pasta and warms through – don’t let it scramble. Serve with more cheese.

Taken from – Sam Stern’s Student Cookbook - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sam-Sterns-Student-Cookbook-Survive/dp/1406308188/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323618933&sr=8-1

Review

So this dish was a little out of my comfort zone, I’d never cooked a dish like this before. Probably something to do with how useless I am in the kitchen.

But anyway this dish took me very little time to prepare and wasn’t any way near as complicated as I thought it might have been. Beating the eggs and getting the sauce just right was definitely the most complicated part but I managed pretty well.

In the end my flatmate and I agreed that I had managed to cook up a pretty good dish and pretty quickly as well so in that respect it was a pretty good success.

Wasn’t too expensive to make either, it wasn’t cheap but it wasn’t enough to make you delve into your overdraft. Depending on what you’ve bought that week you might be able to have some the ingredients lying around without needing to buy anymore.

For anyone looking to cook a quick, simple and nice dish then this is one for you.

By Matthew Hancocks