In Italian cuisine there are many dishes that are prepared from simple and affordable products, but they are not only nutritious, but also very tasty. These include pasta - pasta in sauce with the addition of other ingredients: meat, seafood, cheese, vegetables. Pasta with bacon in a creamy sauce is relatively inexpensive, its preparation does not take much time and effort, but to taste this dish is not inferior to expensive delicacies. Delicate creamy flavor of the sauce perfectly emphasizes the taste of bacon, neutral pasta taste fastens this harmonious union, and hard cheese emphasizes creamy taste and gives the snack a little piquancy. The food gets even more interesting notes if it is supplemented with garlic or onion, pepper or mushrooms, and other ingredients.
Cooking Features
Cooked pasta with bacon in a creamy sauce can be quickly, if you have at least a little cooking experience and skill. The beginning mistress will have to spend a little more, but she can also get the expected result if she knows and takes into account a few points.
- It is believed that long pasta is best combined with cream sauce and fried bacon, short products are usually served with a thicker sauce, but this rule is not indestructible.
- Italians make pasta from pasta made from durum wheat, they are less boiled soft, keeping a neat and appetizing look after cooking. Such products and more useful than those made from soft wheat varieties.
- For cooking pasta, you must use a large saucepan. If the water is low, the products stick together.
- You need to salt water before putting pasta into the water. Then they will not be bland. Salt take about a teaspoon per liter of water.
- Dip the pasta into the already boiling water. You do not need to wash them before this, otherwise you will end up with a shapeless mass.
- The cooking time for pasta may be different, you need to be guided by the manufacturer's recommendations on the packaging.
- You can pour the sauce over the pasta after they are laid out on plates, or mix with it, putting the pasta in the pan.
- Cheese sprinkled with pasta after they are ready, but do not have time to cool, then it will melt just as much as you need. Sometimes cheese is added directly to the sauce.
Pasta with bacon in a creamy sauce is not recommended to be cooked in quantities larger than can be eaten at one time — this dish is good only in a freshly prepared form; if it cools down and is heated, it will lose its appetizing appearance and become less palatable.
A simple recipe for pasta with bacon in a creamy sauce
Composition:
- spaghetti - 0, 3 kg;
- bacon (raw) - 0, 3 kg;
- egg yolks - 3 pcs .;
- cream with fat content of 10-20% - 0, 2 l;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boil water in a large saucepan. Salt it. Put spaghetti in a pan, not breaking them, but immersing them in water with a spoon as they soften. Boil 5-10 minutes, focusing on the recommendations of the manufacturer.
- Separate the whites from the yolks. Proteins for this dish are not needed, they need to be put in a clean, dry jar and put into the fridge to be used later for other dishes.
- Place the yolks in a bowl.
- Finely rub the cheese, pour to the yolks, mix.
- Add cream and salt, whisk.
- Cut the bacon into small cubes, put it on a dry, thick-bottomed frying pan. Fry until cooked.
- Flip the spaghetti in a colander and, without rinsing, put it in the frying pan with bacon. Stir and fry everything together for 5 minutes.
- Pour the spaghetti and bacon sauce, mix. Immediately after this, remove the pan from the heat.
It remains to lay out the pasta on plates and serve.
Fragrant pasta with bacon in a creamy sauce with garlic and herbs
Composition:
- spaghetti - 0, 2 kg;
- smoked bacon - 100 g;
- fatty cream (from 30%) - 100 ml;
- egg yolks - 3-4 pcs .;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves;
- fresh parsley - 25 g;
- dried herbs, salt, pepper - to taste;
- hard cheese - 100 g.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the bacon into thin strips.
- Chop parsley finely.
- Chop grated cheese with small holes. Divide in half: half go into the sauce, the rest - on the sprinkle of the finished dish.
- Separate yolks from proteins.
- Combine the yolks with 50 g of cheese and cream, add pepper, a little salt and herbs, whisk with a whisk until you get a uniform composition.
- Crush the garlic cloves with the flat side of a knife, chop finely.
- In a dry frying pan, fry the bacon for 2 minutes, add garlic to it, continue frying for 2 minutes. Add parsley, stir, temporarily remove from heat.
- Boil the spaghetti, fold it to a colander. Transfer to a pan with bacon.
- Return the pan to the fire, fry spaghetti with bacon for 2-3 minutes.
- Pour the prepared sauce into the pan with pasta, mix.
After 1-2 minutes, remove the pan from the heat, arrange the pasta in plates, sprinkle with the remaining cheese and serve to the table.
Pasta with bacon and onions in a creamy sauce
Composition:
- macaroni - 0, 25 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- raw bacon - 150 g;
- butter - 20 g;
- refined vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- cream with fat content of 20% - 0, 2 l;
- hard cheese - 50 g;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Onion, freeing from the husk, cut into thin half-rings.
- Cut the bacon into thin strips.
- In a frying pan, melt the butter, add vegetable to it, warm them for 10 seconds.
- Put the onion in the pan, fry it until golden brown.
- Add bacon. Fry it with onions for 5 minutes.
- Pour cream in the products, add salt and spices. Stew the sauce for 5-10 minutes.
- Cook the pasta and put it in the frying pan with the sauce. Stir. Cook for 5 minutes.
Remove the pan with pasta from the heat, add grated cheese to them, mix and immediately lay out on plates.
Pasta with bacon and mushrooms in cream sauce
Composition:
- macaroni - 0, 2 kg;
- onions - 75 g;
- smoked bacon - 75 g;
- fresh champignons - 150 g;
- wheat flour - 10 g;
- cream with fat content of 10% - 0, 2 l;
- refined vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- salt, spices, dried herbs - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the bacon in small cubes.
- Wash the mushrooms, dry them with a napkin, cut them in the same pieces as bacon.
- Peel and cut the onion into small pieces.
- Heat the oil in a deep frying pan, put onions and mushrooms in it. Cook until the liquid released from the champignons evaporates from the pan.
- Add bacon. Fry food until lightly browned.
- Mix the flour with cream, pour them into the pan. Boil the sauce over a low heat, stirring until it thickens.
- Cook the macaroni, rinse them (preferably with hot water), transfer to the pan with the sauce. Stir.
- Warm the pasta in the sauce for 2-3 minutes and serve it to the table.
This version of the pasta will appeal to those who are not indifferent to mushrooms.
Pasta with bacon in a creamy sauce can be prepared according to various recipes. In some cases, the sauce is made with yolks, in others - without them. Bacon can be used fresh and smoked. Often in the food are cheese, onion, garlic. The technology of cooking depends on the selected recipe, but the result in any case will please you.
