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I'm a pretty good cook. My husband says that's one of the reasons he married me. But you know what? I've never cooked carbonara. The major reason is I prefer red sauce to white sauce. But now that I have kids, I figured I shouldn't impose my culinary preferences on them. Since my boys love pasta, they should try all kinds of pasta and sauces. I mean, all the pasta they know is spaghetti with tomato meat sauce! And, I'll be honest, they don't seem excited anymore when I serve them spaghetti.
And that's why I decided to cook my first carbonara!
Ingredients:
Half a kilo of noodles (I used spaghetti noodles so that it's familiar to my kids)
1 can evaporated milk
250 ml Nestlé All Purpose Cream
1 can cream of mushroom soup
200 grams sweet ham (since my family loves bacon, I didn't use ham and just added more bacon!)
200 grams bacon
6 cloves of garlic, minced (the recipe called for a whole head but my kids don't like garlic)
1 onion, minced
1 tsp white pepper (you can use black pepper but I prefer white so that it looks nicer, no black spots on the white dish!)
Parmesan cheese, grated
Chopped parsley as garnish
1. Prepare pasta according to package instructions. Set aside.
2. In a bowl, mix cream of mushroom soup and evaporated milk till it's smooth. No lumps!
3. Slice the bacon into 1-cm pieces. Fry. Set aside.
4. In the same pan where all that lovely bacon oil was left behind, sauté garlic and onion. Add back the bacon but leave maybe a few tablespoons for sprinkling later.
5. Add the milk and cream of mushroom soup mixture, the Parmesan cheese, and Nestlé All Purpose Cream. Stir and bring to boil.
6. Season with pepper. There's no need to add salt since the cheese is salty.
7. Simmer with gentle stirring because the cream will burn if you leave the sauce alone. Remove from heat when sauce starts to thicken.
8. Serve pasta topped with the carbonara sauce sprinkled with bacon, more cheese, and parsley. Enjoy!
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Ako naman, yan lang ang kaya kong lutuin. Hehehe! I'm lucky though because the husband is a great cook. Di kami magugutom mag ina.
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