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- From: bch@ecsvax (Byron C. Howes)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Spaghetti Carbonara, Neapolitan Style
- Date: 21 Feb 86 05:16:36 GMT
- Organization: North Carolina Education Computing Service
- Approved: reid@glacier.ARPA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CARBONARA M "10 Feb 86" 1986
- .RZ "BIAGIO'S SPAGHETTI CARBONARA" "Spaghetti carbonara, Neapolitan style"
- My wife and I had the pleasure of staying at the Villa Virgiliana (owned by
- The Vergilian Society) in Cuma, Italy just outside of Naples in June, 1985.
- Biagio and Maria Sgariglia, the proprietors of the villa, served us
- excellent Italian farm meals for a week, each meal being more delicious than
- the last. This dish was the gastronomic highlight of our stay.
- .IH "Serves 3 to 4 people"
- .IG "1 pound" "thin spaghetti, rotini or equivalent pasta" "500 g"
- .IG "2 Tbsp" "olive oil" "30 ml"
- .IG "\(12 lb" "pancetta or bacon" "250 g"
- .IG "1" "medium yellow onion"
- (chopped)
- .IG "\(12 cup" "cold water" "125 ml"
- .IG "\(14 cup" "dry Italian white wine" "60 ml"
- .IG "4" "eggs"
- .IG "4 Tbsp" "heavy cream" "60 ml"
- .IG "8 Tbsp" "parmesan cheese" "100 g"
- (grated)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Put large bowl in oven to warm at lowest possible setting.
- .SK 2
- Soak chopped onion in cold water for 15 minutes to reduce pungency.
- .SK 3
- Chop Pancetta or bacon into
- .AB "\(14-inch\(mu1-inch" "5mm\(mu2cm"
- strips.
- .SK 4
- Beat eggs and cream together with a fork. Add
- .AB "4 Tbsp" "50 g"
- parmesan cheese to the mixture.
- .SK 5
- Wash pasta. Put on water to cook pasta. Add pasta when boiling. In
- the meantime...
- .SK 6
- Dry onions and saut\z\(aae with pancetta or bacon in olive oil until onions
- are barely translucent.
- .SK 7
- Add wine and reduce heat when initial boiling ceases. Meat should not
- be crisp.
- .SK 8
- When pasta is cooked, drain, but
- .I
- do not wash.
- .S
- .SK 9
- Quickly remove bowl from oven, put pasta in it and toss with egg, cream
- and cheese mixture so that heat from pasta cooks eggs.
- .SK 10
- Add meat, onions and wine without draining fat and toss until
- thoroughly mixed.
- .SK 11
- Sprinkle remaining cheese to taste, toss and serve immediately.
- .NX
- Pasta should be cooked
- .I
- al dente
- .S
- so that it offers resistance to the teeth without crunching. Fresh
- pasta is desirable (dried pasta is a poor imitation of the real
- thing.) Pasta should be used immediately when done so as to stop its
- internal cooking. If both portions of the recipe cannot be completed
- at the same time, the meat and onion mixture should finish first.
- .PP
- I have made a very successful variation on this using hot country sausage.
- Make sure the sausage is fairly lean if you try it, however.
- All of the quantities are adjustable, and may depend
- on the kind of pasta or meat you use. Too much cream will
- cause the egg mixture to separate from the pasta and meat. Too little cream
- will essentially give you scrambled eggs and bacon with pasta.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate to hard (timing is critical).
- .I Time:
- 30 minutes.
- .I Precision:
- measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Byron Howes
- North Carolina Education Computing Service, Research Triangle Park, NC
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