Carbonara

🧺 Ingredients

• 200 g spaghetti
• 100 g guanciale or thick bacon, in batons
• 2 egg yolks + 1 whole egg
• 50 g pecorino (or parmesan), finely grated
• A violent amount of black pepper

👩‍🍳 Steps

1. 1

   Render the guanciale in a cold pan brought to medium until crisp; keep the fat.

2. 2

   Whisk eggs, cheese and pepper into a thick paste.

3. 3

   Cook pasta very al dente; save a cup of the starchy water.

4. 4

   Off the heat, toss pasta with the fat, then the egg paste, loosening with pasta water.

5. 5

   It should ripple like silk. If it scrambles, we never speak of this.