🇮🇹 How to Make Carbonara

Craving Carbonara? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Carbonara at home, in about 20 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 200g spaghetti
• 100g pancetta or guanciale (bacon works), cut into little batons
• 2 whole eggs + 1 extra yolk
• 50g pecorino or parmesan, finely grated, plus extra
• a scandalous amount of coarse black pepper
• NO cream. Really. None.

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Boil the spaghetti in well-salted water. Before draining, SAVE A FULL MUG of the cloudy pasta water — it's the sauce's secret ingredient.
2. While the pasta cooks, fry the pancetta from a cold pan on medium until the fat renders and it's crisp, about 5 min. Kill the heat.
3. Whisk the eggs, yolk, cheese and lots of pepper in a bowl until it looks like wet sand.
4. The drained pasta goes into the pancetta pan (heat still OFF); toss in the fat for 30 seconds and let the sizzling stop.
5. Pour in the egg mix while tossing fast, adding splashes of pasta water until it becomes a glossy cream that coats every strand. Residual heat cooks it; direct heat scrambles it — the pan must never go back on the flame.
6. Serve instantly with more cheese and pepper. Silky = you nailed it. Scrambled = call it 'breakfast pasta' and try again tomorrow.