Capellini Carbonara Recipes

SPAGHETTI ALLA CARBONARA

Steps:

• Prepare the sauce while the pasta is cooking to ensure that the spaghetti will be hot and ready when the sauce is finished; it is very important that the pasta is hot when adding the egg mixture, so that the heat of the pasta cooks the raw eggs in the sauce.
• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, add the pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until tender yet firm (as they say in Italian "al dente.") Drain the pasta well, reserving 1/2 cup of the starchy cooking water to use in the sauce if you wish.
• Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a deep skillet over medium flame. Add the pancetta and saute for about 3 minutes, until the bacon is crisp and the fat is rendered. Toss the garlic into the fat and saute for less than 1 minute to soften.
• Add the hot, drained spaghetti to the pan and toss for 2 minutes to coat the strands in the bacon fat. Beat the eggs and Parmesan together in a mixing bowl, stirring well to prevent lumps. Remove the pan from the heat and pour the egg/cheese mixture into the pasta, whisking quickly until the eggs thicken, but do not scramble (this is done off the heat to ensure this does not happen.) Thin out the sauce with a bit of the reserved pasta water, until it reaches desired consistency. Season the carbonara with several turns of freshly ground black pepper and taste for salt. Mound the spaghetti carbonara into warm serving bowls and garnish with chopped parsley. Pass more cheese around the table.

LEMON CAPELLINI

Steps:

• Add 2 tablespoons of salt to a large pot of boiling water. Add the capellini and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until just al dente.
• Meanwhile, heat a large (12-inch) saute pan, add the butter, and heat until the butter is melted. Add the zest and juice of the 2 lemons. Add 2 teaspoons salt and 1 teaspoon pepper and swirl the pan to combine.
• As soon as the pasta is cooked, lift the pasta out of the water with tongs, allowing most but not all of the water to drain back into the pot, and add all the pasta to the sauce. Cook for one minute, adding pasta water to the sauce with a ladle just enough to keep the pasta moist.
• Transfer the pasta to a serving platter or individual plates. Garnish with more lemon zest, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and squeeze a little lemon juice on top. Serve hot.

CAPELLINI WITH TOMATOES AND BASIL

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add 2 tablespoons of salt and a splash of oil to the pot.
• Meanwhile, heat the 1/2 cup of olive oil in a large (12-inch) saute pan. Add the garlic to the oil and cook over medium heat for 30 seconds. Add the tomatoes, basil, parsley, thyme, 2 teaspoons salt, the pepper, and red pepper flakes. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook for 5 to 7 minutes, tossing occasionally, until the tomatoes begin to soften but don't break up.
• While the tomatoes are cooking, add the capellini to the pot of boiling water and cook for 2 minutes, or according to the directions on the package. Drain the pasta, reserving some of the pasta water.
• Place the pasta in a large serving bowl, add the tomatoes and Parmesan and toss well. Add some of the pasta water if the pasta seems too dry. Serve large bowls of pasta with extra basil sprinkled on top and a big bowl of extra Parmesan on the side.

CHICKEN CAPELLINI CARBONARA

Steps:

• Render the bacon over low heat in a medium sauté pan.
• Start a pot of boiling water for the pasta.
• Remove the bacon from the pan once it is cooked and has released drippings into the pan.
• Add the 2 tablespoons of olive oil to the drippings and raise the heat to medium high.
• Sautê the diced onion and whole garlic cloves until onions are translucent and the garlic is.
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• Start the pasta now.
• Add the diced chicken to the sauté pan, and cook until the chicken is almost cooked.
• Add the heavy cream.
• Reduce the cream by a third and toss the bacon back inches
• In a separate mixing bowl beat the eggs a couple of tablespoons at a time whisking constantly.
• Once about half of the liquid has been tempered into the eggs, add the egg mixture to the sauté.
• pan.
• Do not return to the burner.
• The heat from the pan, mixture and pasta will cook the eggs.
• Drain the pasta well but add it to the sauté pan while it is still hot.
• Add the parmesan and toss pasta in the sauce.
• Garnish with some parsley and a little more parmesan.
• Serve immediately.

CAPELLINI CARBONARA

Steps:

• Heat olive oil and butter in large saute pan over medium heat.
• Add shallots, bacon and prosciutto, cook until lightly browned.
• Add wine and chicken stock, cook for 2 minutes over high heat.
• Add cooked pasta, grated cheese, freshly ground pepper and egg yolk, stirring vigorously over high heat until pasta is coated and creamy.
• Transfer to individual plates and serve.