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#WFD – Creamy Bacon and Mushroom Spaghetti Carbornara

Combine the sauce with the cooked spaghetti, transfer to a serving dish and serve immediately

POLOKWANE – Carbonara is an Italian pasta dish from Rome made with egg, hard cheese, guanciale, and pepper. Spaghetti is the usual pasta, however, fettuccine, rigatoni, linguine, or bucatini are also used.

What’s for Dinner says if you love crispy bacon, then you’ll love it even more after trying this recipe.

Ingredients

  • 15ml sunflower oil

Method

  • Bring a large pot of salted water (1.2 lt water with 7.5 ml salt) to the boil and cook the spaghetti until al dente (cooked but still firm to the bite) then drain and set aside
  • Heat oil in a large pot or deep pan and fry the garlic and onion until soft
  • Add the diced bacon and fry until cooked and starting to become crispy
  • Add the mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes
  • Add the milk and stir in the contents of the sachet of KNORR Bacon Carbonara Pasta Sauce
  • Allow to simmer on a low heat for 10 minutes stirring occasionally
  • Remove from the heat and stir through the cream and the chopped parsley
  • Combine the sauce with the cooked spaghetti, transfer to a serving dish and serve immediately
  • BETTER FOR YOU TIPS: For a healthier spin on this dish replace durum wheat spaghetti with wholewheat spaghetti, cream with yoghurt and add a generous handful of fresh baby spinach leaves to the pot while simmering

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Raeesa Sempe

Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard

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