Carbonara recipe?

Looking for a tested and approved carbonara recipe. If it's an unusual version let me know in what way it differs.

Egg, cream, bacons, pasta, seasoning (black pepper), some nice cheese.

Make the pasta.

At the same time fry up bits of chopped up bacon.

Add the cream to the egg.

Add the cheese and bacon to the egg-cream mix.

Add seasoning.


Then drain the pasta and add it quickly to the carbonara sauce.

This cooks it.

Then eat. Nyom nyom.

just don't put a fuckin whale in it

Chicken-Mushroom Carbonara
per serving:
1-rasher of middle bacon or 2-slices of streaky, chopped.
1 Tbsp Oil
25g white onion, chopped
100g chicken breast, diced
3 white button mushrooms, sliced
1-clove fresh garlic, minced
25ml white wine
100mls cream
20g parmesan or romano cheese, shaved or grated
1 egg yolk
fresh ground black pepper, to taste
200g pasta (usually spaghetti, fettuccine, or linguine)
parsley for garnish

bring a large pot of salted water to the boil

heat oil in an appropriate sized pan, add chicken breast pieces and sear the outside letting them colour lightly. toss in onions, mushrooms, and bacon.  cook over med-high heat for about 2-mins.
add the garlic and cook for a further 30-secs. splash in just enough wine to release the bits of chicken and bacon from the bottom and sides of the pan.  pour in the cream before the wine completely evaporates. bring it to the boil then take it off the heat.

start cooking the pasta. once it has become al-dente, drain it and add it to the sauce. top with the selected cheese and mix together.  finish by mixing in the egg yolk. at this point the dish should still be steaming hot, but not so much that it will scramble the egg.
season with black pepper. taste before adding any salt.

transfer it to a serving dish and top with MOAR CHEEZ and parsley.


Purists will argue that it's not a real carbonara because it has chicken, mushrooms, and cream. But I say FUCK YOU to them, because if food didn't evolve, we'd still be sitting around campfires gnawing on charred whatever-we-killed-with-a-stick-that-day.

Protips:  don't burn the fucking garlic--if it looks dark brown throw it all out and start again.
when separating the egg, crack it into a bowl of hot water, it'll help temper it.
also once the yolk is in the pasta, slowly stir it into the sauce and pasta rather than folding the pasta over the yolk and stirring.