Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Simple Carbonara Ala Dau

(can feed 4 - 6 people)

Indredients.

500 grams SAN REMO FETTUCCINI
2 tall cans of evaporated milk (the cheapest evap milk will do the same)
1/2 cup butter
200 grams spiced ham cut into 1 cm squares
1 minced onion
3 cloves of garlic
1/2 cup of EDEN CHEDDAR CHEESE
2 KNORR CUBES shrimp
2- 3 tbsp of Sugar
Salt and Pepper to taste
Veg Oil


Procedure.

1. Break the Pasta into 3 cuts.
2. In a deep pan, place 2 litters of water, 3 tbsp of salt and some oil. Bring to boil. Cook the pasta. constantly stirring it not to stick. set aside went to guard

3. In a big saucepan... saute garlic, onion and ham.
4. Melt butter to the saucepan
5. Add 2 cans of milk.
6. Wait to boil on medium low flame, add one Knorr shrimp cube
7. Simmer for another 10-15 minutes until reduced by 1/4 its original volume
8. Add grated cheese to melt faster.
9. Taste sauce, add salt pepper and sugar
10. Then the other Knorr cube as to satisfy taste.
(the sauce should be a little salty, just an itsy bitsy)

11. Drain pasta and add to sauce, coat with the sauce all over. Taste again and add salt sugar pepper in accordance to desire.

*this pasta is also satisfying with TUNA CARBONARA SAUCE, just exchange the milk with above volume and increase Tuna volume 4x. minus the Thyme... exchange olive oil with butter

1 comment:

JP Herrera said...

Yey!!!! Thanks for the Carbonara recipe....How did you know that this is my favorite pasta? Joke!!! Hahaha.....

Anyway...thanks again...I'll definitely try your recipe....

Ciao!! See you around...and I'll post my comments too...