A freakish experiment/my homage to carbonara & breakfast sandwiches. Always felt like carbonara was basically a deconstructed bacon egg and cheese anyway. This ain’t that but keep an open mind.
Very small evoo, little bit of grated garlic, minced shallot to sweat in a pan, add 2-3tbsp of nduja and really try to break it up, add a tbsp or more of tomato paste in the pan. I’m kinda gross and love a ton of ketchup on breakfast sandwiches so I go HAM on the TP. Incorporate it well, Add a little bit of starchy pasta water if it needs some slack.
Then you’re basically going carbonara, couple wet egg yolks in a bowl w black pepper and grated pecorino&parm regg. Add some pasta water and get that thing moving. Combine the eggs, cheese, pasta then add to nduja “ketchup” mix in pan which should be warm but off the heat.
Toss, stir, add pasta water and heat as needed. I also threw a bunch chives in at the end.
by double_bakes
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Have you had Chinese tomato egg? Seems like something you might like
I would absolutely fuck with this, very cool fusion dish OP, I love it.
I think you’d love Rigatoni alla Zozzona, this seems like you got quite close on your own.
Looks amazing and thank you for the recipe.
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Looks good, interesting project.
We serve B-E-Carbonara for brunch once a year with a local bagel shop. Start with instead of guanciale, fairly normal carbonara process after but maybe a little extra parm creaminess, and top with everything bagel seasoning. Crowd favorite