Pasta Carbonara

Name: Pasta Carbonara
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: salt and pepper; 4 egg yolks; 150 ml (5 fl oz) double cream; 2 packets of sliced Parma ham, cut into 2cm (¾ inch) squares; 400-500 g (14-18 oz) dried pasta; olive oil, for cooking; a squeeze of lemon; 75 g (3 oz) Parmesan cheese

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keeping it Simple

By Gary Rhodes

Published 2005

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Ingredients

olive oil, for cooking
2 packets of sliced Parma ham, cut into 2cm (¾ inch) squares
150 ml (5

Method

Heat some olive oil in a large saucepan. Add the Parma ham squares and fry over a medium heat for a few minutes until the ham becomes crispy, then leave to one side.
Mix together the cream and egg yolks and season with salt and pepper.
Meanwhile, cook the pasta until tender. Drain, return it to the hot saucepan and stir in the lemon juice with the egg yolk