Bacon Ends Spaghetti Carbonara

It’s a perfect weeknight meal, lunch or brunch. Leftovers taste amazing too! So if you want a quick, easy and effortless pasta dish then you need to make this Bacon Ends Spaghetti Carbonara recipe!

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Cooking Method: Boiling, Frying

Cuisine: Italian Cuisine

Catagory: Main Dishes, Pasta

Description

This Bacon Carbonara recipe is a simple, delicious twist on the classic original. Creamy seasoned pasta combined with crispy bacon!

Ingredients

1 pound spaghetti
3 large eggs
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
12 ounces bacon ends (Times Right sells Behrmann Bacon Ends)
3 cloves freshly minced garlic
sea or kosher salt, to taste
Optional garnish: chopped fresh parsley and more Parmesan cheese

Instructions

1
Cook the pasta in generously salted water according to package directions (al dente). Drain the pasta. Do not rinse the cooked pasta.
2
Reserve 1 cup of the cooking water and set aside.
3
Add the eggs, Parmesan cheese, and pepper together in a small bowl.
4
Whisk until combined. Set this aside.
5
Fry the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat. You want it to be brown and lightly crispy. it will take 5 to 10 minutes.
6
Remove the bacon from the pan and drain the excess fat from the skillet (all but about 1 tablespoon). Crumble the bacon and set aside.
7
Add the minced garlic to the bacon grease in the skillet and cook for 2 minutes. Don't let the garlic burn. Reduce to low heat.
8
Add the cooked spaghetti to the skillet.
9
Add ½ cup of the reserved cooking water to the skillet.
10
Toss this all together with tongs.
11
Remove the skillet from the heat. Add the Parmesan, egg, and pepper mixture.
12
Immediately use tongs to gently combine allowing the spaghetti to be coated. (If you allow the eggs to sit, it may cook into a clump.) The eggs will cook from the residual heat on the spaghetti.
13
Add crumbled bacon then continue to toss everything together again.
14
If the dish is too dry for your taste, you may gradually add the desired amount of the reserved pasta water (stirring as you add.)
15
Add salt to taste. Taste it first, the bacon and Parmesan cheese adds its own saltiness

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Wanda Morefield Hubler

Owner - Times Right

Hi, I'm Wanda Hubler, owner of Times Right in Vandalia, Illinois. Times Right sells many gourmet food products including flavored coffee, ice cream, soup mixes, dip and spread mixes, bbq sauces, packaged meat, flavored popcorn and more.