Pasta Carbonara

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 4
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 362.3
  • Total Fat: 14.3 g
  • Cholesterol: 131.8 mg
  • Sodium: 436.6 mg
  • Total Carbs: 44.6 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 2.4 g
  • Protein: 15.1 g

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Introduction

This is a great side dish; add in some meat and veggies with the pasta and you have a one dish meal! Cubed chicken and zucchini lightly sauteed are great over top of this pasta. This is a great side dish; add in some meat and veggies with the pasta and you have a one dish meal! Cubed chicken and zucchini lightly sauteed are great over top of this pasta.
Number of Servings: 4

Ingredients

    1/2 box pasta
    4 slices bacon
    2 Tbsp butter
    2 cloves garlic, lightly crushed
    1/4 c diced onion
    2 beaten eggs
    1 Tbsp parsely
    1/4 c parmesan
    1/2 tsp ground black pepper
    1/4 tsp salt
    1/2 tsp garlic powder
    1/2 tsp onion powder

Directions

Start water for pasta. While waiting for it to come to a boil and start the pasta cooking, fry bacon in a pan. Remove bacon from pan to drain/cool, and crumble. Keep the bacon grease in the pan! Add butter to same pan. Saute onion and garlic cloves over medium heat until soft, but stop short of caramelizing. Discard garlic. It will look very buttery/liquidy, but this is the base of the sauce so it's OK.

While pasta is cooking and bacon is frying, lightly beat 2 eggs. Stir in parsely, parmesan, pepper, salt, garlic powder and onion powder.

Put cooked pasta in a bowl. Add egg mixture and stir rapidly to avoid egg scrambling. Add bacon and onion mixture. Toss and serve.

Number of Servings: 4

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user HLJ3079.