Authentic Italian Pasta Carbonara Recipe
Join me in mastering the art of Italian cuisine with this step-by-step guide how to make Carbonara Pasta! From rendering the guanciale to creating the perfect creamy sauce, this pasta carbonara recipe will transport your taste buds straight to Italy. If you don’t have bucatini pasta you can make spaghetti carbonara.
Pasta Carbonara Recipe Ingredients:
5oz guanciale
8oz bucatini pasta
2oz Parmigiano-Reggiano
1 large egg
2 egg yolks
1 cup pasta water
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00:00 Introduction
00:33 Prepping Ingredients for Carbonara Pasta
01:30 Making Sauce
Let’s make this beautiful and delicious pasta carbonara the most important ingredient is Guanciale but if you don’t have Guanciale you can definitely use Pancetta or regular bacon pasta carbonara like most Italian dishes requires simple ingredients to create hearty and delicious pasta dish and you have to remember pasta carbonara doesn’t
Include cream milk or any stocks and the most important traditional ingredient is Guanciale it is salt cured pork jowl take about 5 oz of Guanciale and cut it into medium cubes don’t cut them too small or they will burn and don’t cut it too big because it will be
Unpleasant to eat use Parmigiano-Reggiano or Pecorino Romano don’t use other cheeses I’m using Parmigiano-Reggiano and finely grade about 2 oz of it transfer it into the bowl and put it aside for now get a saute pan make sure that it’s cold and now let’s render the Guanciale
Place the Guanciale in and put the pan on a low heat couple minutes passed and you can see some fat releasing from Guanciale and that’s what I will use to make authentic carbonara when Guanciale is done you can scoop out some of the fat but leave couple spoons in a saute pan when
You see that the Guanciale is perfectly cooked get a slotted spoon and remove it from the pan now let’s cook the pasta bring the water to a boil season the water with salt I got about 5
Quart of water and and approximately I’m adding 2 tbsp of kosher salt add the pasta in I’m cooking 8 oz of bucatini pasta cook the pasta until it’s al dente approximately 9 minutes while the pasta is cooking let’s prep carbonara sauce into the bowl add one large egg and two egg yolks add
Parmigiano-Reggiano and you can leave some for decoration use only freshly grounded black pepper approximately half a teaspoon mix it until all the ingredients are well combined Reserve about 1 cup of pasta water and add a splash of pasta water into the egg
Mixture put the sauté pan with Guanciale fat on a medium low heat add Guanciale bucatini pasta mix it make sure to subscribe to my channel press the Bell press notify to get notified of my tasty beautiful recipes remove the pan from the heat add carbonara sauce return it
Back to the heat vigorously Stir It and add about half a cup of pasta water here you need to act fast so you don’t end up with scrambled eggs vigorously stir it for about 1 minute and you will see that the sauce will get thicker and creamy and that’s it we’re
Done our pasta carbonara is ready transfer it into the plate put some Guanciale on top enjoy and then definitely add some fresh ground black pepper if you are an Italian please let me know how I did on this recipe

2 Comments
Mmmm I was in Rome a year ago and I'm telling that's how it's done. Great job
And i thought i was the carbonara King 😂 This recipe must be super tasty !!