Speghetti Carbonara

In my previous pasta post: suasages with mushroom speghetti, I find myself suddenly got a passion to try out many different recipes about pasta. As normally in the past, I often bought a can of pasta sauce and some ingredients such as brocoli, mushroom, hotdogs to goes with the pasta.

Olive oil goes very well with pasta. Adds in a unique taste. I remember during my b'dae, my bf brought me to this chillax massage cafe, they hav this speghetti carbonara. Since then, I had been wondering how it was done. And I managed to find one. Below recipe is my verison with some changes of the porportion of the ingredients.

Serves 1

Ingredients:-

3 tablespoon of bacon bits (I bought the above)

1 egg - beaten

1 onion - chopped

1 garlic - minced

1 tbsp of olive oil

1 serving size of speghetti

Salt and pepper to taste

Ready to use chopped parsley

1/2 cup of pasta cheese

Method:-

1.  Cook speghetti in a pot of boiling water till al dente. Add in about 2 tsp of salt into the boiling water.  Drain off the boiling water and soak in warm water for 5 mins and addin 1 tbsp of warm water.

2. Heat cooking pan and add in bacon bits. Stir fry till bacon bits slightly crisp. Remove from pan and drain onto kitchen towels.

3. Using the oil from bacon, add in 1tbsp of olive oil and stir fry chopped onion till translucent like below.

4. Add in minced garlic and cook for 1 min.

5. Return bacon bits to pan; add cooked speghetti. Toss to coat and heat through. Add more olive oil if the speghetti looks dry or sticking together. Add in beaten egg and tosing constantly with pasta fork till egg barely set.

6. Add in pasta cheese and toss again. Add in pepper and salt to taste(bear in mind that bacon are already salty, so do not add too much salt).

7. Dish out the speghetti on a serving plate. Serve  & sprinke with ready to use parsley and extra pasta cheese according to your preference.