What's your go-to spaghetti carbonara recipe please?

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I usually cheat and use a shwartz packet mix but would like to make from scratch later. What's your re cioe and me this please?

Bacon lardons, mushrooms, onions, cooked spaghetti with a small bit of cooking water let it cook a teeny bit not to scramble the eggs. However many beaten eggs you need. Take it off the heat and mix in the eggs. It is very simple.

Let it cool not cook

Same as yellow or also sometimes use bacon chopped up instead of lardons
Instead of egg, use half fat creme frauche. Fry off garlic bacon and mushrooms. Cook soaghetti. Swirl in creme fraiche at end. Add cooked onions in before serving as doing so before can cause sauce to curdle a bit.

Phone!!! That is supposed to read recipe and method...

Ah thanks for the replies...I thought that parmesan was involved somewhere?

We have this for dinner regularly in our house and it's dead easy:

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta-recipes/beautiful-courgette-carbonara/

I know It's not a traditional carbonara, but the addition of veg and herbs makes it colourful and very yummy imho

You can omit the cream if you want.

It is. Fry onions and bacon, mix in spaghetti. Take off heat and add beaten eggs into which lots of Parmesan has been mixed. Comfort food at its best.

Of course it is!

Cook your spaghetti.

Mix up eggs - an extra yolk for every wile egg- with as much grated Parmesan as it will hold.

Fry off some chopped pancetta, I find it easiest to use a wok here.

Drain cooked pasta; hold back a few tablespoons water.

Add pasta to wok with pancetta; mix through to cool a little; add cheese and egg mix, stir through til it's silky, add some of the water if need.

No mushrooms creme fraiche garlic or onions! Sounds nice but not a carbonara.

One Egg plus one egg yoke. Grated Parmesan. Mix together.

Fry some garlic and pancetta in butter.

Cook spaghetti.

Drain spaghetti add pancetta and stir through

Add egg and Parmesan and mix quickly to stop egg scrambling

OK I was shown this by a genuine Italian person...

Fry bacon lardons, boil pasta.

whisk together one egg for the first person, then one yolk for each other person.

Dump the cooked and drained pasta back into the empty saucepan, with the fried bacon lardons, and mix the eggs through it.

Serve at once with parmesan/grana padano

So no cream/crème fraiche/mushrooms/
I am sure these are tasty but it's not really a carbonara.

Oooops yes Parmesan I knew I was forgetting something. Sometimes I just throw it on top of I’m feeling lazy though.

No onions, mushrooms, creme fraiche, Schwartz packets - none of those belong anywhere near a carbonara.

Traditional Roman carbonara involves just 4 ingredients, and should be a lot quicker to make (and tastier) than your Schwartz version.

The ingredients are eggs, spaghetti, pepper, and pancetta (guanciale which is cured pork cheek is usually used in Roman kitchens but as it's impossible to find in this country pancetta is an acceptable substitute), and the recipe is here.

Some Italian cooks/chefs will add garlic and white wine (as do I), but this isn't traditional.

*apologies, add pecorino too to that ingredients list! That would be pecorino Romano, which you can easily find in every supermarket here.

Mix an egg yolk per person with Parmesan in a bowl.

Fry pancetta lardons, keep warm.

Cook spaghetti until al dente, drain off water, drain some into a cup/bowl.

Put cooked spaghetti into pan with lardons, heat on v low. Pour in egg/cheese mixture and some cooking water. Stir like mad to make sure all pasta is coated, add more water if it’s too thick. Season with salt (if needed) and lots of black pepper. Eat immediately.

For 2:

Spaghetti or tagliatelle
3-4 rashers of unsmoked bacon, chopped
Single cream
An egg
Parmesan
Salt
Pepper
Butter

Put pasta on to boil.

Fry chopped bacon.

Once cooked, add cream (enough to cover bacon and then some).

Whisk one egg and add in a shit load of parmesan (cheesier the better for me!) Add salt and pepper.

Once pasta cooked, stir a knob of butter through it.

Add eggs/cheese mixture.

Add bacon/cream.

Add more parmesan to top to taste.

(I do know this is not a traditional recipe but it does taste bloody good)

Fry onions, mushrooms and cut up smoked bacon with garlic, mixed herbs and black pepper. Just before serving, add single cream or Elmlea and heat until starting to bubble. Simple but a firm favourite here.

The one I use is Nigella's & it's bloody amazing. Can't remember the quantities exactly but it involves frying pancetta, then adding vermouth to the pan once the pancetta's cooked. Putting that to one side, you boil your spaghetti al dente, meanwhile mixing a combination of one whole egg and one or two egg yolks and cream (not crème fraîche). Once the pasta's cooked, you drain it but leave a little water & put it back in its pot with lid on. Quickly reheat the pancetta (or lardons) and the vermouth. Tip it into the pasta and mix well. Finally, add cream & egg mixture. Stir. Add freshly ground pepper to taste as well as freshly grated parmesan. Stir once more & serve immediately.

I should have said i add parmesan through the egg if using egg and sprinkle on top if using creme fraiche.
Not traditional recipe but it is really lovely with creme fraiche and if you want you can call it bacon creme fraiche pasta instead of carbonara but it tastes lovely all the same. Definitely no need for packet mixes.
It depends what you like as to how you adapt it. I wouldn't get too hung up over what makes for a traditional recipe.
If you want to add more veggies then courgette and red pepper is also nice.

Jamie Oliver's skinny carbonara from his website

Very interesting reading! Thanks everyone...the reason I asked about parmesan is that DP doesn't like it at all but I really really do. Sounds as though I can just omit this then and just add mine at the end. Looking forward to it.

I think my recipe is Carluccio's, but I hardly look at it any more. Bacon, egg, cheese* pasta, pepper.

*I have used finely grated cheddar in an emergency. It was delicious.

That's what we had for dinner and it was yummy 😋

I use this recipe.

antonio-carluccio.co.uk/recipes/spaghetti-alla-carbonara/

put spaghetti on.sometimes with some peas in
cook onion and bacon in pan.
in a bowl mix bout 4 eggs 3ooml milk sometimes imx with cream and big handful of grated cheese
drain spag leaving a little of the water which contain the starch with help the sauce stick and thicken
mix in bacon and onions
mix in sauce
mmmmm]somehow serving it in fancy pasta bowls makes it nicer to.sprinkle of pepper and more cheese atop.
oh and a gass of Ribena.dont ask...

guesswhosback that's the one. Delicious.