Easy Authentic Italian Spaghetti Carbonara from Scratch Recipe

Discover the secrets to making traditional Spaghetti alla Carbonara with Mama Anna in this step-by-step video! This beloved Roman pasta dish features a rich, creamy sauce made without cream, just fresh eggs, Parmigiano, salt, pepper, parsley, and guanciale (cured pork cheek) for unbeatable flavor.

Anna will also show you her simple method to make the spaghetti from scratch, giving this dish an extra special, homemade touch. Learn the easy step-by-step method to get that perfect silky texture and authentic taste.

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Spaghetti Carbonara Recipe
Serves 4-6 people

Ingredients:
6 oz of Pork belly or guanciale
2 cups of parmigiana cheese
1 whole egg
5 egg yolks
3-5 springs of parsley
Garlic optional
1 cup of Reserve cooking pasta water
1 lb of spaghetti
Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:
Render all pork until crispy.
Prepare pasta cooking water. Add pasta when boiling and cook for ten minutes.
Add all other ingredients to a bowl and combine well.
Once pasta is cooked, drain and reserve one cup. Add pasta to the rendered pork and all other ingredients in the bowl. Add reserved water and stir well. Enjoy.

[Music] and this is spaghetti alon hi Bella hi Bella ala carbonara and for our English friends our English friends today we’re making spaghetti carbonara all right and what are our ingredients ingredients are a cheese eggs flour because we’re making uh spaghetti from scratch okay parsley and guanchale guanchali and what’s gualeal guanchal is h the cheek from a pig that it’s cured and this is what you need to do carbonara beautiful what are we going to do first the pasta uh yes okay ammon okay make one cup of flour one cup of flour yes we might need a little bit more animal okay now you’re doing your little well my little Wow and we put two eggs cuz we’re not making a lot of pasta today right no no just enough for what two people yes okay more than enough for two people okay for you and me okay what do you got there salt just a tiny pinch okay so we mix this really well [Music] everything on the board okay you see that’s what I mean that we might need more because it depends on the size of the eggs but um my girls have been very generous so the eggs are big they’ve been producing good ones yeah always [Music] okay now give me a minute i got to wash my hands mhm we’ll come back yes okay and we’re back look how beautiful already just to think that this amount will feed two people really really good perfect and obviously you can do different types of pastas of course but the Roman way is with spaghetti yes and you can use the dry pasta the dry spaghetti too but uh I think my friends know me by now that I want to make the dish very special from scratch as much as I can and this feels great that’s how it should feel look at that okay so now we start for the machine to knead the dough okay so we going to setting number one [Music] have you always had this machine your whole life or no let me see i think the first one I I bought it was about 25 years ago before that no everything was by hand yes what was the worst pasta to do by hand uh actually I cannot answer that because I love to do anything all of them yes yes look how much fun is this one yeah and then when we do the how much fun making or anything or spaghetti anything that every time we go through the machine they come nice and so you cut it up in three parts now yes so now is it going to be stay in three parts um maybe not we’ll see do you want really long spaghetti not too long not too long no I don’t want to fight wrapping it around my fork awesome okay so now we go to setting number three five which setting are we going to stop at i think it’s seven okay yeah because we did it just with eggs so we can go on a lower number okay so now it’s at five i’m going to shut it off so just remember to setting seven the highest one oh yeah okay okay so this is the length hold it up yes you said maybe you want them too long yeah not too long i think that’s perfect okay so let’s run that through now we changed our attachment to spaghetti attachment beautiful these are called pretty spaghetti pretty spaghetti and now we got our hanging rack yeah and they’ll dry beautifully and all these tools we have them on our Amazon so we have the link where you can buy it yourself all the attachments look at that gorgeous each one perfect just like you Senora [Music] all right we got three more sheets to do yeah how quick was that is it what 8 minutes wow i think Are you timing me no because I always time myself [Music] beautiful [Music] and our last one so now the pasta is going to dry dry we’re going to make our guanchale we’re going to get everything ready for that and by the time that’s all ready our pasta will be dried out oh yeah okay then we getting our parsley mhm anything you make if you get really good at prepping for it before then it won’t take long at all to put it together mhm so now the parsley is ready the guanchali you can check for your local butcher yes beautiful guanchali i cut some slice already there’s a little one here from this big piece okay so we start cutting and we’ll see if we need more we’re okay with that and I love this so the more the better beautiful mhm do you feel like we’re in Italy when we do this of course when we use this just missing the music unfortunately oh the music playing in the background [Music] and what’s the next step after this after this I already have the pan on the stove a very low heat and we put this in so all the fat will melt so very low setting we’re going to render the fat yeah you’re going to see how it changed the color it looks so pretty [Music] and I’ve seen people use pork belly ponchetta bacon because uh it’s not easy to find the guanchal we were really lucky to find it yeah we went to um an Italian market here in San Diego it’s called Mona Lisa uh downtown San Diego and they have it so not everywhere has it so when you do find it grab it grab it and make this right away how beautiful now we start to make the sauce okay so we put one whole egg in here and then this ones here we use just the yolk and the white we put in here [Music] so while that’s cooking on low we got the water boiling over there for the pasta we got the pasta drying look how pretty that’s you working with your eggs oh yeah how many eggs you did i did four one the whole egg and three just the yolk okay okay we have eggs in here and we put one two three four five tablespoon of parmesan we put some uh black pepper tiny tiny pinch of salt parsley you can mix one at a time if you want but you don’t need to that’s how I do it mix another mix it until you get the beautiful cream and now for the extra flavor first of all you remove the one shallot and I put in a little bowl okay so now I get few tablespoon of this and you pour in the eggs you put some of that fat in there yes that’s a lot of flavor it’s not cold fat flavor it’s called flavor a mix [Music] okay now this is almost done for now we switch a little bit i’m removing all the fat because we don’t need to put this in the pasta okay see we put a tiny pinch of salt and the beautiful pasta it just makes me happy look at that nice and easy and how long do you think it’s going to take it comes to a boil and that’s it i’m going to remove it they’re already over here [Music] now we’re going to get closer now what we do into the cheese and egg we put a little full of the pasta water i’m going to put two and we’ll see if we need more okay cuz this is going to be the one that dresses the spaghetti this is the gold [Music] and to me this looks amazing okay so now what do we do we put some of the oneal in here we just leave few for topping okay and some more parsley because it’s just beautiful [Music] and this looks perfect how does it look to you it looks delicious okay we’re done we’re done yeah let’s go the other side beautiful i’m just trying to [Music] Oops [Music] so beautiful so now we put more of the wali on top mhm okay cuz these are just like candy now at this point mhm okay and then just let them drop whatever they want to draw picture perfect don’t forget about the parmy jam oh yeah yeah because we didn’t put enough paragan so we need this amazing [Music] seora that was amazing okay my pleasure okay thank you very much we’ll see you next week all right okay ciao ta [Music]