Please tell me how to make a creamy UK style Carbanara

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8 months pregnant. Have been eating VERY well due to an elevated risk of diabetes (sisters and mum all had it). But I’ve decided one fuck it meal will do no harm.

Please can you tell me how to make a UK-style carbonara which is a bit creamier and less sharp. Something like you would get at Prezzo or Zizzi’s. I tried making one last night and it was far too authentic so it ended up as DH’s lunch today.

Desperate to make one! I’m bored and it will give me something to do.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks all, making this for lunch today. Need to actually leave the house

Bacon eggs and cream ? Cheese isn’t critical

Creamy cheesey bacon pasta 😆 fry lardons with a bit of garlic powder and add dried oregano just before it’s done. Take pan off heat. Cook pasta, save half a mug of pasta water when draining. Add pasta to bacon pan with two egg yolks, loads of strong cheddar cheese and 200ml double cream stir like fuck. Add bit of pasta water as you go until it’s as saucey as you want it!

Use Pecorino rather than Parmesan.

You lot are heathens with your onions, garlic or mushrooms. They don’t belong in a Carbonara.

Mushrooms are a good idea though, to be fair.

Lardons not bacon , lots of garlic and cream as others have already said. Lots of cheese. Yum

I use this one. It’s very cheesy (I’ve had some in restaurants which are more oily) so tastes quite creamy and absolutely delicious in my humble opinion (I guess you could also add extra cream if you wanted to).

There are a gazillion recipes on the internet

all of the BS ones with cream and milk or whatever in them - urgh.

no Other explanation? 😂

the ingredients are bacon or pancetta, eggs, Parmesan and garlic.

it’s ridiculously simple and soooo worth doing it properly

I always use the Felicity Cloake recipe. There’s no cream, but you need an extra egg yolk.
I use 2 whole eggs, as well.
Always goes down a treat.

You don’t need to add cream. Use eggs

I pan fry pancetta and finely chopped onion, boil pasta and drain,mix 1-2 egg yolks plus knob butter over the hot cooked pasta, add grated cheese (I use provolone) and stir until all melted, add creme fraiche to your desired consistency, black pepper, the pancetta and onion mix and chopped parsley. It’s really easy

100% and that’s what I would call carbonara but OP wants something creamier and less Parmesan tasting which is why I said cream
sometimes I want creamy cheese pasta and sometimes carbonara!

That was the exact thought I had too 😂

I make a very cheat version for the grandkids - fry pancetta with a finely chopped onion in butter and olive oil until golden, then take off high heat and stir through a tub of philadelphia (has to be the full fat one) and a bag of pre grated cheddar/mozzarella mix. Then add some black pepper, stir in a cooked pan of pasta and bingo. Kids will eat a mountain of it, it's rich and creamy and about as inauthentic as it gets.

Can vouch for this recipe. Delicious and really quick and easy to make.

I'd fry some pancetta or guanciale until crisp, with some garlic but don't let the garlic burn. Add lots of cream, then the parmesan. Put your pasta into a wide bowl and pour over the sauce and toss. Just before eating, tip one egg yolk onto your pasta and mix it all through really well in the bowl you are going to eat from.

You need to serve it with a massive salad.

I don’t know about ‘need to’!

Just had this tonight. It’s the best one.

I’d make a cream rich béchamel, add an egg to it at the end and crispy fried bacon. Lots of Parmesan on serving, job done.

Mmm carbonara, I love it. I wish I could buy guanciale locally, but it's still ace with just streaky bacon or lardons plus lots of black pepper.

Make sure whatever bacon you go for, it hasn't had water added to it like a lot of UK bacon has had. You want it to fry nicely, not sweat and sit in water in the pan.

I do this super easy Jamie Oliver one all the time. It uses fresh lasagna sheets cut lengthways and tastes differnt every time depending on how much I use of each ingredient.

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta/mushroom-carbonara/