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Hey, I'm Jocelyn and this is a quick and dirty carbonara. It's not exact because I'm not going
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to use pecorino. Partly because this is part of another video, five things to make with 10
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ingredients. So that video is like when you're traveling and you're staying in an apartment
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and you don't want to buy a ton of food, but you can get like 10 or 12 ingredients and make a whole bunch of meals. So this is one of those meals. So we're going to start with
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We've got two eggs and two egg yolks. We've got noodles for everyone
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I'm using a gluten-free fettuccine because they're my favorite. These are also really easy, you know, portions, right
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So there are four people. I usually use five of these for our family
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And I've got some Parmesan here, and I've got bacon. Pancetta would probably be a little bit better
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Carbonara is usually made with the meat from the cheek. But I'm just going to use bacon because that's one of the things we're going to use
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and some of those other meals that I've got. So we're going to start by just chopping this up into, you know, maybe not quite inch long pieces
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So my family really likes bacon. So I've actually got more bacon than you would usually use in a carbonara
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For like this size, I would probably use about three or four strips of bacon if you're doing it the right way
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I'm using like six because, you know, that's my family. So we're gonna go cook these off and I've got water boiling already so that's
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I'm just gonna wait for that to boil while this renders down. Okay so we're
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just gonna throw this I got my pan already kind of a little bit hot and we just gonna render this We don want this to get crispy like bacon We just want it to cook down
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I'm just tossing these in my boiling water and I'm going to let those cook until they're
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about al dente. And depending on what kind of pasta you use, it's going to be different for every pasta
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I'm going to give this a quick stir. And because I'm using this carbon steel pan that gets really hot and retains heat really
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well, I'm turning this down pretty far. medium medium low that way I can go over and mix my eggs and my cheese and make
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the sauce okay so we're gonna make our sauce really quickly and it's just two
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whole eggs and then two egg yolks and we're gonna dump them in our bowl and I've
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got about a cup or so of Parmesan and we're just gonna whisk this together
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You can whisk the eggs first and then put in the cheese so it mixes up just as well either way
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We're going to use a generous amount of black pepper, about a teaspoon and a half maybe
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and just a little bit of salt because that cheese is pretty salty
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and then you going to put it with bacon and all of that is going to be salty so we don want to add too much So I just going to whisk that up
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And yes, this is raw, but when we put it in with our hot bacon and on our noodles, it won't be so bad
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It'll kind of cook itself. Okay, so my bacon is pretty well done
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It's not really crispy, nice and soft. still but cooked. So I'm going to take this and I throw it on a paper towel and just let it drain
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and then I'm going to drain my pasta and always when you are making pasta try to reserve a little
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bit of that water. It's really easy to do with these little bundles these sort of nests of
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noodles because you can just sort of pull the noodles out and you don't really have to worry
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about trying to save the water and drain everything out that can kind of be a pain in the rear end. So
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we're just going to do this and my noodles are done so I'm going to go ahead and drain that
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so like I said you don't really have to drain these noodles because of the type
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I can just pull them out and throw them in my hot pan
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I'm going to mix everything back in in this pan simply because it's easy
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So this pan is completely off
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It just whatever heats in there is simply from you know from having cooked the bacon And now my bacon I just going to make sure it nice and dry throw that in there mix it around a little bit and then we gonna throw our egg and
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cheese mixture in here stir it around and you will have pasta carbonara nice
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and easy this is a great meal for kids you know when you don't have a lot of
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thyme or something, this is one you can make really quickly. It's got a ton of
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protein in it. Not a lot of vegetables, but you know what? Who says you can't
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just throw some broccoli in there too or something? So there you go. We're gonna
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mix this in really well. And then I'm gonna throw a little extra cheese on top
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So I'm just gonna add a little more cheese. It is entirely up to you how much
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you want to put on there. I've got quite a lot in there because I really like
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parmesan. So there we are. There is a beautiful huge serving of pasta carbonara and it's quick
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and you can make this really easily when you don't have a whole lot of ingredients. Like I said
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this is all part of five meals you can make with 10 ingredients and this is one of them. So I hope
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you enjoy it. So I said reserve a little bit of water and this is pretty good and wet and I'm not
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real concerned about it, but reserving that little extra pasta water, you just pour a little bit in
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and mix it all up. This is especially great if the kids are taking a long time to get down to
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the dinner table. The hot water will just kind of liven this all back up again, and so there you go
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That's why Italians keep a little pasta water
