thread: Carbonara Recipes???

  1. #1
    Registered User

    Sep 2008
    Australia
    471

    Carbonara Recipes???

    Anyone got a good carbonara recipe? I've been feeling like creamy bacon carbonara with chicken... oh and some garlic bread

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Feb 2009
    2,031

    My BIL is a chef and makes the most utterly delish deluxe creamy bacon cabonara I have ever had.... but the rotten turd won't share the recipe with me! He is a good guy, just a big meany!

    So wish I could help

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Jul 2008
    Country VIC
    930

    This is the best fettuccine carbonara recipe I have ever tried and to make it even better it is from the Symply too good to be true books so low fat etc.

    Ingredients:
    1 teaspoon of crushed garlic
    1 onion diced
    3 rashes bacon or 1 cup of 97% fat free ham
    3 cups mushroom sliced
    1 tablespoon flora light margarine (or whatever you have)
    2 tablespoons plain flour
    1 x 375ml can evap light milk
    3/4 cup skim milk
    2 sachets of mushroom cup a soup
    1 teaspoon vege stock powder
    2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
    pepper to taste
    300g dry fettuccine pasta

    Cook fettuccine pasta.
    Coat a large non stick saucepan with cooking spray, saute garlic and onion for 2 minutes, toss in bacon/ham and cook for 2 minutes. Add sliced mushrooms and cook a further 2-3 minutes.
    Remove from pan and set to one side.
    In same saucepan put margarine, flour, evap milk skim milk, dry soup mix, stock powder and cheese give a whisk until its reasonably combined. stir over heat until thickened and smooth.
    Return mushroom mixture to pot and stir to combine, serve over pasta once cooked.