This meal for one is super simple with only four ingredients. I found the recipe on the BBC food website and adapted it for my taste. Here’s my take on it.
Ingredients:
4 slices of unsmoked streaky bacon, cut into thin strips
125ml double cream
75g blue cheese (I used Castello Danish Blue)
100g/3½oz pasta, cooked (the recipe suggests tagliatelle but I went for spaghetti)
I buy my spaghetti like this from M&S. It’s so much easier to freeze that a big tangled lump of fresh speghetti and nicer than the dried stuff.
Method:
For the carbonara, fry the bacon in a saucepan until crisp (I started off with a little splash of oil just to get things sizzling).
Add the cream and cook for a further two minutes.
Add the blue cheese to the sauce to melt, then add the cooked pasta and serve.
I think you could add a little less cheese. As it is, unless you eat the dish lightning fast it turns into a bit of a cheesy lump.
Otherwise – totally delicious. I’ll be having this one again.
