Carbonara with Chicken
Classic Carbonara doesn’t usually involve chicken but this recipe does because you can’t beat a chicken and bacon creamy pasta situation!
The chicken in this recipe is pan-fried in the smoked bacon-infused oil, giving more taste to your incredibly simple yet unbelievably delicious creamy sauce.
This is a recipe anyone can do even if you’re a beginner in the kitchen. The combinations of smoked bacon, chicken, cheese and pasta are enough to make anyone drool!
Approx. time to make: 25 minutes in total
Makes 4 servings
Ingredients
-400g spaghetti (100g spaghetti per person)
-4 egg yolks
-100g of parmesan
-1 or 2 large chicken breasts sliced
-100g smoked bacon lardons
-Sea salt and cracked black pepper
-Olive oil
-Reserved pasta water - remember not to throw this away as it is needed for the sauce
Method
-Cook the spaghetti in a pan of boiling water to the time according to the package directions. Season the pasta water with a glug of olive oil and a heavy pinch of salt.
-In a bowl, mix the yolks and parmesan till combined. Season with cracked black pepper.
-While the pasta cooks, in a separate large frying pan drizzle in some olive oil and when hot add the bacon lardons. Pan fry until fully cooked through then remove and put aside.
-In the same frying pan (with the leftover bacon-infused oil) add in the sliced chicken breast. Season with salt and pepper. Once fully cooked through, remove from the pan and set aside with the bacon lardons.
-When cooked, drain the spaghetti (but make sure to keep at least 100ml of the pasta water aside).
-Turn the heat to the frying pan off, but again using the same frying pan with all the flavored oil and juices remaining, add all the spaghetti into it.
-Bit by bit, add the yolk parmesan mixture to the pasta and mix it in. Gradually as you add in the yolk mixture also add in a little of the pasta water till a sauce builds and coats the spaghetti.
-Now assemble the dish by serving the spaghetti, sprinkle over more parmesan, sea salt, black pepper and add on top the lardons and portions of the sliced chicken breast. Enjoy.