Chicken Carbonara Recipe
 
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You can do this carbonara recipe without the chicken or replace with meatballs, sausages or vegetables.
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • Chicken breast 600 grams or 21 ounces, cut into bite size pieces
  • Bacon 2 slices, chopped (could also use pancetta)
  • Egg yolks 4 large
  • Linguine dried pasta 500 grams or 17 ounces
  • Salt to taste
  • Black pepper to taste
  • Olive oil
  • Lemon zest
  • Parsley flat leaf chopped finely
  • Double cream 150 ml or 500 fl ounces
  • Parmesan cheese grated finely 150 grams or 5 ounces
Instructions
  1. Add the diced chicken breast pieces to a large frying pan with a splash of olive oil. Seal the chicken and add the bacon or pancetta pieces.
  2. Salt a pan of boiling water and cook the dried linguine pasta.
  3. Mix the double cream, egg yolks, lemon zest, chopped parsley, and half of the parmesan cheese.
  4. Strain the linguine pasta when it is cooked and keep a little of the water in it. Add the pasta back to the pan and mix the egg and cream mixture.
  5. Mix it while it's still hot and then add the chicken pieces.Toss it all together to make sure the egg mixtures covers everything. The pasta should glisten rather looking like it has bits of egg all over it.
  6. To top it off, add a good sprinkling of quality parmesan cheese.
Notes
Once you have made this a couple of times it's super quick and easy to make. It a great pasta recipe to experiment with too. I have added all kinds of crazy ingredients to my carbonara recipe over the years.
Recipe by Good Food Recipes at https://www.goodfoodrecipes.com/chicken-carbonara-recipe/