Carbonara Recipe

Salam..

            Back then when I was in the UK, I preferred a home made carbonara sauce rather that getting one from the store because as far as I've been looking around, their carbonara sauce didn't look so tempting. All of them were just plain white sauce while I like to put some flavours in my cooking. So I decided to prepare the sauce from scratch. And that was the first carbonara I've ever had, thus I wasn't too sure of how it should actually taste like but getting positive feedback from the housemates, I could not care less of the 'real carbonara flavour'. As long as it tasted good and went well inside the tummy, everything should be fine. Hihi. Plus, the recipe is very simple and took less than half an hour to get it ready.

But now that I'm already back in Malaysia, my preference has switched to a ready made sauce, specifically from Prego. Why is that so? It's more cost effective! Haha. You will just have to add 2-3 more ingredients to complete the taste. So, here they are.

Ingredients :

1. 250g pasta ( I like to use either tagliatelle or bowtie pasta)

tagliatelle

bowtie

 2. 200 ml of fresh milk

3. Cheesedale

 4. 300 g prego carbonara mushroom sauce

5. Frankfurter

6. Button mushroom

7. Butter / Margarine

8. 3 cloves of garlic, peeled

9. 1 large yellow onion, finely chopped

10. Ground black pepper

Directions :

1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Put a spoon of oil. Add the pasta and while waiting for them to cook, you can prepare the sauce.

2. Melt a table spoon of butter/margarine inside the pan. Add the garlic and yellow onion. Saute for 2 minutes to soften.

3. Add the frankfurter and the button mushroom that have been sliced into small pieces. Fry until crisp.

4. Empty the carbonara mushroom sauce inside the pan. To reduce the thickness of the sauce, add some water and 3/4 of fresh milk.

5. Add 3 slices of cheese to the sauce. Let them melt.

6. Season the carbonara with ground black pepper and salt.

Once done, serve your carbonara with the pasta of your choice. Simple right?

Till my next recipe,  Assalamualaikum..