Tired of regular meals? Want to try something tasty but easy to make? Then you went to the address. Carbonara pasta with mushrooms and bacon is a delicate, original dish that can be easily and quickly cooked at home. For this, it is not necessary to be a cooking genius. It is enough to have at hand the necessary products. So, let's begin.
Spaghetti preparation
It is difficult to imagine carbonara with mushrooms and with sticky pasta. To prevent this, you need to properly boil spaghetti for this dish. After all, this is the basis. On many packages, the manufacturer indicates the recipe for the preparation of pasta. If not, then you will need:
- spaghetti (pasta) - 100 g;
- non-chlorinated water - 1 l;
- salt - 10 g.
These are optimal proportions. How much do you need to cook such pasta? As a rule, this process takes no more than 7 minutes. If necessary, you can try pasta. According to experienced chefs, spaghetti should be slightly undercooked at the time the stove is turned off.
Classic recipe for carbonara with mushrooms
To prepare 4 servings of such a dish, you will need:
- 500 g of spaghetti;
- 250 g of champignons (fresh);
- 150 g of bacon, preferably smoked;
- 200 ml cream with a fat content of 25%;
- 25 g of unsweetened butter;
- a mixture of peppers;
- bow;
- favorite spices and salt.
Getting down to cooking
How is carbonara paste prepared with mushrooms and bacon? The whole process comes down to the following actions:
- Rinse and chop the mushrooms.
- Peel, chop, and put the onion in a pan with oil. Put mushrooms here too. Blanch food until all of the liquid has evaporated.
- Grind the bacon into slices.
- Pour the cream into the stewpan, put mushrooms with onions here, add your favorite spices salt and a mixture of peppers. Boil the components at a low temperature, heat for 7 minutes, stirring regularly.
- While the sauce is cooked, boil the spaghetti as described above.
- Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the bacon on it.
The components of the dish are ready. To serve, put spaghetti on a plate, then a layer of bacon and pour on top all the sauce with mushrooms and onions. To use such a dish is hot. The cooled paste of carbonara with mushrooms, cream and bacon will not be so tasty anymore.
For cheese lovers
If you like cheese, then the recipe for carbonara pasta with mushrooms and cheese will definitely come in handy. To create a tasty and fragrant dish, prepare:
- spaghetti (pasta) - 200 g;
- champignons (fresh) - 200 g;
- natural cream with a fat content of 15% - 200 g;
- bacon - 100 g;
- Parmesan - 100 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. l .;
- salt;
- ground pepper (black).
How to cook?
The process of preparing such a dish is reduced to the following actions:
- Boil pasta as described above.
- Put the butter and melt in a pan. Sauté bacon and mushrooms, previously chopped, on it.
- Whip the cream and yolks with a mixer. Add cheese, a little salt, pepper to the mass. Mix the ingredients and add the mushrooms with bacon.
- Pour the resulting sauce into the prepared spaghetti and mix. Leave for a few minutes to soak the pasta in the sauce.
Serving carbonara paste with mushrooms is in a large, preheated plate. For decoration, you can use cheese chips and green leaves.
Carbonara paste without meat
If you are not a fan of ham or bacon, then you can try the following spaghetti recipe with sauce and mushrooms. To do this, prepare:
- mushrooms (oyster mushrooms / champignons) - 300 g;
- spaghetti (pasta) - 300 g;
- eggs - 5 pcs.;
- Parmesan - about 100 g;
- spices, salt;
- oil.
We start to create:
- Finely chop the mushrooms and fry them in oil, adding a little salt.
- Boil the spaghetti as described above.
- Grind cheese with a grater, mix with spices and yolks.
- Add the pasta to the dressing bowl and fry everything in a pan for several minutes, after adding the grated cheese.
What are the difficulties?
To understand whether you have prepared the dish correctly, look at it carefully. If carbonara paste turned out, then pasta should shine, resembling real silk. At the same time, spaghetti should not stick together, and the sauce should not drain to the very bottom of the plate. You can achieve the desired result, knowing the subtleties of cooking.
There are only a few problems that can darken the meal:
- The spaghetti is too dry and the sauce is viscous.
- The sauce is too thin. He does not linger on the paste, but flows down to the bottom of the plate.
How to fix them? Italian cooks after cooking spaghetti do not pour out all the liquid in which pasta was cooked. Part of it is poured into a separate container. If the spaghetti turned out to be dry, and the sauce is too thick, then the liquid is added to the dressing.
If the sauce, on the contrary, turned out to be too thin, then cheese will help to fix the situation. That's all the tricks of this dish.
With a special mood and desire, you can experiment in your kitchen. For example, not everyone likes champignons. You can replace this component with oyster mushrooms or porcini mushrooms. The latter give the dish a richer mushroom flavor. As for bacon, you can not add it at all. But if you are not able to refuse meat, then this component can be replaced with ham. In order to better understand the intricacies of cooking, you can refer to the video that is presented above.