About Pasta Carbonara Recipe: This simple Roman pasta dish derives its name from 'carbone' meaning coal. It was a pasta popular with the coal miners. The original recipe calls for guanciale, which is ...

Remember: The main goal is creaminess. This simple recipe starts with mixing together eggs, egg yolks, pecorino and Parmesan cheese as pasta gets cooked in salted boiling water. Meanwhile ...

Set aside. Add spaghetti to boiling water and cook 3 minutes less than box specifies. Once noodles are halfway cooked, transfer 3 cups hot pasta water to pan with pork drippings and bring to a ...

In a classic spaghetti carbonara, eggs are whisked with a small amount of the water used to boil the pasta, which contains some residual starch and therefore has a slight thickening effect.