Carbonara original recipe: 60 photos

Real Spaghetti Carbonara | Antonio Carluccio

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FAQ

Carbonara is made with guanciale (cured pork), eggs, Pecorino Romano cheese, spaghetti pasta, and lots of black pepper. Italians don't add extra ingredients like cream, milk, garlic, or onions. Try this recipe if you want to make an authentic, creamy carbonara that comes straight from Italy, where I live.
Ingredients
  • 100g pancetta.
  • 50g pecorino cheese.
  • 50g parmesan.
  • 3 large eggs.
  • 350g spaghetti.
  • 2 plump garlic cloves, peeled and left whole.
  • 50g unsalted butter.
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
According to one hypothesis, a young Italian Army cook named Renato Gualandi created the dish in 1944, with other Italian cooks, as part of a dinner for the U.S. Army, because the Americans had fabulous bacon, very good cream, some cheese and powdered egg yolks.
Classic Italian carbonara sauce is typically made with just 4 ingredients: eggs, black pepper, pecorino Romano (or parmesan), and guanciale (or pancetta). Of course, you can play around with the ingredients to your liking (we added cream and garlic to this one and often use bacon or ham instead of pancetta!)
Should carbonara have cream? Typically carbonara sauce is only made of eggs, bacon, parmesan, olive oil, seasoning, and sometimes, vegetables. As for cream, Italians will tell you that is a big no no.
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