Table for TwoSpaghetti Carbonara
Silky egg and cheese sauce clinging to pasta with crisp guanciale.
⏱ 25 min📶 Medium👫 Serves 2
Ingredients (for 2)
- Spaghetti, 300g
- Guanciale or pancetta, 150g
- Egg yolks, 4
- Pecorino cheese, 80g
- Black pepper, generous
- Salt for pasta water
Steps
- Cook the spaghetti in well-salted water.
- Render the guanciale until crisp.
- Whisk yolks with pecorino and a lot of black pepper.
- Off the heat, toss pasta with guanciale then the egg mixture, using pasta water to loosen.
Cook it together: One whisks the egg and cheese while the other watches the guanciale — timing matters here.
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