Carbonara is bacon, egg, Parmesan….that’s it.

[Notsympatheticenough]

I’ll accept garlic.. WTF is this?

Carbonara recipr

That's just wrong!

Yeah....that's not carbonara.

It also sounds pretty gross, and I'll normally eat anything!

I thought it was going to suggest cream 😧

There’s a Chat forum in Mumsnet.

this is just wrong

It's not just wrong, it's an abomination! Soup?!

It's an advert for Campbells soup.

My mum used to make it like that with soup! I was an adult before I realised it wasn’t normal.

So did I and I would accept that. That recipe reminds me of 70s recipes for vol au vents etc using Campbell's soup.

It's the opposite of an advert if it's putting you off the stuff for life.

Got to have FF milk or cream. Or it's dry.

My suggestion would be black pepper but that recipe is a no from me

I put in crème fraiche

"Carbonara is bacon, egg, Parmesan….that’s it."

I would normally add spaghetti... 😉

Supposedly that is the original Italian recipe and adding cream is sacrilege (according to the late Antonio Carluccio). If you want to loosen it up because it's too dry add some of the cooking water from the pasta.

What about mushrooms? I'm sure it had mushrooms in last time I ate it.

Eeew. Although YABU too. Ought to be guanciale, at most pancetta, not bacon. And pecorino not parmesan.

Pancetta, not bacon

I occasionally replace the bacon with smoked salmon

It's not carbonara but it is very nice

Traditional Carbonara is

Spaghetti
garlic
parmesan
eggs
salt & pepper
bacon.
butter (to fry the bacon & garlic in).

Defo butter. Better with cream and a lot of pepper

No cream crème fraiche or mushrooms.

yes pasta as a vehicle for the sauce. And to provide a spoon or two of pasta water to make the sauce.

black pepper…yes.

I love a Campbell mushroom soup vol au vent.

Fair enough…not bacon…but tonight I had bacon in not pancetta. And no giuncale to be had where I live.

That link needs a content warning 🙁

Nope, no cream. If its too dry you use the pasta water.

Definitely no mushrooms.

And yes, it's supposed to be pigs cheek not just any old bacon, and pecorino.

Obviously you can put whatever you want in it, but then technically it's not carbonara.

Yeh that’s bad