This easy Pasta Carbonara comes together in about 30 minutes and is the perfect weeknight dinner! Packed with crispy bacon and mixed with the creamiest carbonara sauce, this recipe is a total knockout.  Easy Pasta Carbonara Pasta carbonara is one of those simple dinners we should all know how to make.It’s the perfect go-to for a busy weeknight, and it’s also a dish fit for the weekend or even to serve to guests.It seems like one of those dinners with so few ingredients that how could you possibly mess it up, but oh how you can if you aren’t using with the right method.

I’m no expert on carbonara, which is why I turned to Cook’s Illustrated, they are the kitchen geniuses.I loved how they cooked their pasta in less water to begin with to really concentrate the starches, which will help bind everything in the sauce and prevent separation when you add it to the egg mixture.I also loved that they simmered the bacon in water first — bacon seems easy to burn or can cook unevenly in a skillet, but when I went their route and cooked it in water first and let it simmer off and then continued to brown, it works like a charm.

I also loved that they tested and came up with the perfect ratio of eggs and yolks (or one yolk in this case) to have the perfect carbonara flavor and the perfect consistency.Their recipe listed Romano cheese, but I always have Parmesan on hand so I went with that to keep the simple weeknight meal idea here, but I’m sure Roma

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