orcodito OP t1_ja2154c wrote
Reply to comment by elwebbr23 in [Homemade] Bucatini alla Carbonara by orcodito
Sure, I’m just copy pasting the recipe I posted a few months ago if you don’t mind
RECIPE:
First of all you should put the amount of black pepper you’d like to use (it depends on ur personal taste) on the cooking pan, turn on the cooker and toast it for 2mins.
While it’s toasting, prepare your carbocream:
You could either use 2 yolks per person or one per person + 1 (for example, if you’re cooking for 2 persons it’s 2+1), in this case I went on with the first option, normally I just use yolks and many chefs do the same.
Add some pecorino, I don’t use an exact quantity every time tbh, just go by eye, also if u don’t like strong flavors I’d recommend adding some parmesan too. (I use 70% Pecorino 30% Parmesan)
Once the black pepper is toasted put it into the carbocream and mix.
After doing this, pick another cooking pan, put water in it and let it boil.
Afterwards, in the same cooking pan as pepper, put in guanciale (it’s really important to have guanciale, otherwise if you can’t find it go on with pancetta) and turn the cookers on, let its fats go out (the liquid you get is EXTREMELY important, that’s why guanciale’s better: it releases way more fats than pancetta).
Salt the boiling water and put in spaghetti.
After you notice the bacon or guanciale is crunchy enough, remove it from the pan (watch out from not removing the fats liquid), put the half of the fats it produced into the carbocream and mix it.
After cooking the pasta for 3/4 of the time necessary, turn down the cookers, take some pasta water into a case or another pan (you have to pick up at least 4/5 dippers of pasta water, THAT’S REALLY IMPORTANT otherwise your dish won’t be even half as creamy as mine), then drain the pasta, turn on the cookers on the guanciale’s pan (which now has only liquid fats) and after 30 secs put in it the pasta water, let it boil, and then put in the pasta.
Cook it the remaining 1/4 of the time eventually adding more pasta water if you notice there isn’t enough.
Then turn off the cooker (IT’S VERY IMPORTANT TO TURN IT OFF), wait 15 sec and put the carbocream in the pasta, then mix again and again occasionally adding more pasta water (don’t be shy😉) until it’s as creamy as mine.
Then just put bacon or guanciale on it and here you go!
If u wanna see more recipes of mine visit my ig page: @averageitaliancheff, it’d be much appreciated, thanks in advance❤️
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