Fettuccine Carbonara

Submitted by Diana Adcock

"This is an excellent recipe for an intimate dinner for 4. Serve with salad and wine."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 5 eggs
• 1 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese (NOT that Kraft Stuff)
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
• 12 ounces dry fettuccine (or fresh fettucini(Pasta dough #1)
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1⁄2 lb sliced button mushrooms or 1/2 lb porcinni mushroom
• 1⁄2 cup light cream
• salt & freshly ground black pepper

directions

1. Heat a large pot of salted water on high and begin to cook pasta if it's dry.
2. If it's fresh wait until after youve prepared the sauce as it will only take 3 minutes to cook.
3. Beat together the eggs, parmesan cheese and parsley until eggs are blended well.
4. Heat a large skillet over medium high heat and add the butter.
5. Saute the garlic and mushrooms for 3-4 minutes.
6. Add the cream and heat through.
7. Drain the pasta and return to pot immediately.
8. Add the mushroom and egg mixture, tossing for 2 minutes.
9. Season with salt and pepper, serve at once.

Reviews

[Leggy Peggy]

Sensational recipe. I made using wide fettuccine noodles and only four eggs, because they were extra large. Earlier in the day, I cooked some chopped chorizo for another recipe, so I added about 4 ounces of the leftover sausage to the pasta along with the egg mixture. Had a good laugh at your comment about Not that Kraft stuff. I hand-grated a nice Parmesan, which is the only honourable thing to do it.

 

[diner524]

Wonderful change from the normal carbonaras I have had in the past!! I had some leftover cooked fettuccine in my refrigerator from a previous recipe that I made too much of the pasta, so very quick to make lunch today. Other then scaling this way back to serve one (using one egg), after I took the photo, I added cooked bacon crumbles. Thanks for sharing a fun new twist, which I much prefer the mushrooms over the normal peas, that I will make again. Made for CQ 2014.

 

[Dienia B.]

wowser this good made with paula g chimichurri bread awesome combocakepops on parade italian leg of quest

 

[Azmilah]

I made this recipe this afternoon. The taste was good and it get even better after had been refrigerated and reheated by microwave. I love mushroom and will put more next time.

 

[Debby H]

Great recipe and very rich indeed. I subsituted 2 Tablespoons chopped green onions for the mushrooms and added 1/2 pound of crumbled bacon. Great recipe, next time I will add in the mushrooms.