Lets do the Carbonara!

Ok I am not talking about some fancy dance or anything. What I am talking here is FOOD! Yes, I am talking about how to make carbonara. To be more precise Fettucine Carbonara. I always have this crave for Italian food especially pastas. I simply love them. So I decided to learned how to cook it. By surfing the web I came to this site called video jug which teaches people how to make Spaghetti Carbonara, but instead of using spaghetti I decided to use Fettucine a type of flat pasta. It is not hard to make Carbonara, you just need the right ingredients to do it.

The ingredients that I used

Here are the ingredients that you will need to make Fettucine Carbonara: -(2 person)

1. 200g of dried Fettucine Pasta

2. 2 tbsp of olive oil

3. 6 slices of bacon, chopped

4. 2 egg yolks

5. 35g of Parmesan cheese

6. 4 tbsp of cream

7. 1 pkt of fresh button mushroom

8. salt and pepper.

9. 2 tbsp of parsley, chopped.

The utensils that you will need:-

1. Wooden spoon
2. 2 Saucepans
3. Colander
4. 1 bowl
5. 1 spoon

After you have all the ingredients and utensils ready it is time to prepare the ingredients. First off, clean and wash the button mushrooms and then sliced them into thin little pieces. Once done with the button mushrooms move one to the bacon strips. Chop the bacon strips into small rectangular chunks. Next, prepare the rest of the ingredients according to list above.

Boil a pot of water

Fill the saucepan with water and bring to boil, add in salt and half of the olive oil into the water then your pasta. Make sure your pasta is submerge inside the boiling water so that it is evenly cooked.

Add in salt and half of the olive oil then put the pasta in. Make sure it is submerge inside the boiling water.

While waiting for the pasta to be cooked, let us cooked the mushroom and render the bacon. render the bacon simply means melting the fats of the bacon. First, heat the saucepan and add in the other half of the olive oil. add in the bacon and the button mushrooms. stir for a few minutes and then turn the heat off.

Render the bacon, render simply means melting the fats.

Next mix the cream, parmesan cheese and egg yolks together, use your wooden spoon to mix the ingredients well.

Combine the parmesan cheese, cream and egg yolks

By now your pasta should be cooked, drain the pasta in the colander, leave it on top of the saucepan to drain off the excess water or liquid.

Now, this is the trickiest part, quickly put the drained pasta into the pan of bacon fat and stir well to coat the pasta. Then pour the egg mixture and mix thoroughly. Now it is important to use the warmth of the pasta to cook the egg yolks. But remember DO NOT OVERHEAT for you will end up with scrambled eggs. *Heh*... I passed this part with flying colours.

The last part would be the best part. Serving it! before serving the pasta don't forget to season the pasta with salt, pepper and the chopped parsley. Scoop the pasta with thongs and place a generous helping onto the plate. Then DIG IN! yummyz!

My Masterpiece!! =D

Happy trying and Bon Appetite !