My Carbonara (not traditional carbonara) ;).
To cook My Carbonara (not traditional carbonara) ;) you need 14 ingredients and just 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients
- It's of penne pasta.
- You need of smoked bacon lardons or diced smoked pancetta.
- Prepare of olive oil.
- Prepare of butter.
- It's of small onion.
- It's of 2-3 cloves garlic.
- Prepare of 1/2tsp dried basil.
- Prepare of 1/2tsp dried oregano.
- Prepare of white wine.
- Prepare of 1 heaped tbsp plain flour.
- It's of milk.
- You need of mature cheddar cheese.
- Prepare of Parmesan or equivalent.
- Prepare of English mustard powder.
My Carbonara (not traditional carbonara) ;) directions
- Gently sweat off bacon in 1tbsp of oil in a preheated frying pan. When the fat is totally rendered down, turn up the heat and stir fry to crisp up. Once cooked remove from the pan and place onto kitchen paper to remove excess fat..
- Finely dice the onion and finely chop the garlic. Sprinkle the garlic with salt and use the side of a large cooks knife to purée the garlic..
- Sweat off the diced onion, puréed garlic, dried herbs in butter with 1tbsp of oil. Until fully softened add in white wine and fully reduce..
- Sieve in flour, stir to form a paste. Add in milk a little at a time stirring continuously to prevent catching. Ensuring it’s beaten until smooth with each addition of milk..
- Heat gently, mixing continuously beating until smooth on a gentle simmer..
- Cook the pasta as per packet instructions. Grate the cheddar and finely grate Parmesan..
- Drain off the pasta. Remove sauce from the heat, stir in grated cheese, mustard powder and cooked bacon. Taste and season..
- Stir to combine and serve topped with a grated Parmesan, cracked black pepper. Feel free to pimp it up with some crushed dried chilli flakes.