No Cream Fettuccine Carbonara.
To cook No Cream Fettuccine Carbonara you need 5 ingredients and just 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients
- Prepare of dried fettuccine pasta.
- You need of eggs.
- Prepare of bacon or pancetta, chopped.
- It's of parmesan cheese, freshly grated.
- You need of sea salt and cracked pepper to serve.
No Cream Fettuccine Carbonara directions
- Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil..
- Add 1-2 tsp salt..
- Cook the chopped bacon or pancetta in a frying pan over medium heat until crispy. Set aside..
- Cook the fettuccine pasta in the pot of boiling water according to the packet instructions, until al dente..
- Meanwhile, beat the eggs in a medium sized bowl..
- Add the parmesan cheese and mix well..
- When the pasta is cooked, use tongs to remove it from the pot of boiling water and straight into the frying pan with the pancetta (don't throw away the water!)..
- Put the frying pan over a medium heat and add ¼ cup of the reserved pasta water..
- Shake the pan for 10 seconds or until most of the water has evaporated.
- Remove the pan from the heat and pour in the egg/cheese mixture..
- Working quickly, stir the pasta until it has a smooth coating from the sauce.
- Add in a little more of the pasta water if the egg mixture is too thick..
- Season with sea salt (if needed) and cracked pepper and serve immediately..