Carbonara. Humble ingredients—eggs, noodles, cheese, and pork—combine to create glossy, glorious pasta carbonara. It's the no-food-in-the-house dinner of our dreams. Pasta, eggs, cheese, and bacon come together in the ultimate Italian favorite: spaghetti carbonara.

This dish is a deli egg-bacon-and-cheese-on-a-roll that has been pasta-fied, fancified, fetishized and turned into an Italian tradition that, like many inviolate Italian traditions, is actually far less old than the Mayflower Because America may have contributed to its creation, carbonara is Exhibit A in the back-and-forth between Italy and the United States when it comes to food Remember: the. Luscious and wonderfully indulgent, pasta carbonara takes as long to make as it does to cook the pasta. The ingredients are simple—just spaghetti (or other long pasta), and the carbonara is made with pancetta or bacon, eggs, Parmesan, a little olive oil, salt and pepper. You can have Carbonara using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Carbonara

Prepare 16 oz of fettucine pasta.
Prepare 1 lb of Bacon (I used smoked bacon).
You need 15 oz of jar alfredo sauce (I used bacon savory flavored).
It's 1 small of onion, chopped.
Prepare 1 tsp of minced garlic.
You need 1 cup of frozen peas.
It's 1 tbsp of vegetable oil.
You need 1/2 cup of parmesan cheese.

This is a favorite late-night dinner for my husband and I. John's favorite meal is carbonara; he always asks for it on his birthday. We also make it when he plays with his rock band. John doesn't like to eat dinner before a show so this has become our favorite midnight supper after a gig.

Carbonara instructions

Cook the bacon until it is nice and crisp. Crumble or chop the bacon then set it to the side.
Cook your pasta (be sure to follow thedirections on the package)..
In sauce pan add in 1 tbsp of vegetable oil, then turn the heat up to medium..
Add in the onion, and cook for 1 minute then add in the peas, and garlic..
Pour in the alfredo sauce and bacon, and let simmer for 5 minutes.
Drain the pasta, then place it back into a large pot. Pour in the sauce, and combine the ingredients..
Place the pasta on a plate, and top it off with parmesan cheese and the reserved bacon..

I can't eat, think about, dream about, or even remotely consider Pasta Carbonara without thinking of Heartburn, the Meryl Streep/Jack Nicholson movie from the eighties that I both love and hate. Love, because it's incredibly written by Norah Ephron and incredibly acted by Meryl and Jack. For a quick dinner, whip up Tyler Florence's authentic Spaghetti alla Carbonara recipe, a rich tangle of pasta, pancetta and egg, from Food Network. Bacon, eggs & Parmesan "This easy pasta sauce will cook in about the same time it takes to cook some dried pasta in boiling salted water - we're talking about quick and easy options here. It was delicious nonetheless and shockingly easy.