Name: Pasta with Asparagus, Cream and Crispy Bacon Sauce
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: About 18 oz/500 g pasta, preferably bow or shell shapes; 1 lb/450 g asparagus; 6 rashers of smoked streaky bacon, grilled till crisp, then broken into small bits; 1–2 tbsp chopped parsley and snipped chives, mixed; ¾ pint/420 ml single cream; A grating of nutmeg; Freshly ground black pepper (the bacon should add enough saltiness)

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

This is one of those special occasion dishes which take about 5 minutes to prepare and another 5 minutes to put together. If you are making it for non-meat eaters you obviously won’t want to include the bacon, so I suggest chopped cashew nuts which have been fried in a small amount of butter with a pinch or two of salt. This gives a good contrasting crunchy texture, as well as a complementary taste.

Which pasta you use depends on you. I like to make this dish using short pasta, that