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4
Easy
By Jack Monroe
Published 2019
A traditional carbonara recipe contains eggs, milk and bacon, and it was a challenge to recreate this, but I don’t give up easily. I started off with technicalities – smoking thin strips of aubergine to replace the bacon, whisking aquafaba to give the unctuous richness of an egg – and it was delicious, but the ingredient list was as long as my arm. So I shelved that version, and instead of focusing on trying to replicate a carbonara, I came up with this kinder, kinda one instead. The oil, n