Grammy's Kitchen · Carbonara · Creamy Carbonara

One of 156 carbonara recipes we measured

Creamy Carbonara

from www.favfamilyrecipes.com

It ranks #1 of 156 for brightness among the carbonara recipes we compared. 10 cooks on www.favfamilyrecipes.com rate it 4.9★.

hands-on15m
waitingnone
makes6
each$1.58
kcal730
levelbeginner
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The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 156.

this recipe typical

Where it stands out

  • #1 of 156 for brightness
  • #1 of 156 for noodle texture
  • #1 of 156 for saltiness
  • #1 of 156 for sauce cling

Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

454 g1 pound spaghetti
454 g1 pound bacon
16 g5-6 cloves garlic
100 g2 eggs
30 g2 tablespoons heavy cream
pepper (to taste)
142 g5 ounces parmigiano reggiano (grated on the finest side of a box grater)

Method: 6 steps, published by www.favfamilyrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“This dish, Pasta Carbonara, is delicious. We were having a group of 14 friends over for potluck dinner & I decided to try a new recipe. I was a bit nervous about cooking those eggs but it all worked out. I tripled the dish so we would have enough. There was on” — a cook
“I’m guessing the pan is getting too hot while you’re cooking the garlic. You might try just warming the garlic through in the bacon drippings and then immediately adding the warm pasta and egg mixture. You also might want to condition the egg mixture by adding” — a cook
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