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How To Make a Pasta With Bacon And Peas recipe. This is not a Pasta Carbonara recipe; but it's pretty close, and probably something that most of us have. Pasta in a red sauce with bacon and peas.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pasta with bacon and peas using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pasta With Bacon And Peas:
- Get 1/2 each Diced white onion
- Take 2 each Or more diced garlic cloves
- Make ready 4 oz Chopped pancetta/ thick cut chopped bacon
- Take 8 oz Petite peas (I use frozen)
- Take 500 grams Pasta (penne, canneroni,tortiglioni work well) All I had in the cupboard was spaghetti!
- Prepare 1 Extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare 1 Sea salt or Kosher salt
- Get 1 Parmesan cheese grated. Leave cheese out for 1/2 hour and grates much easier.
- Get 1 Italian parsley
Add bacon or pancetta and a sprinkling of pepper, and fry until golden and crisp. Immediately add frozen peas and stir for a minute or two. Add crème fraîche or heavy cream and chopped mint. But over time, this Pasta with Peas and Bacon recipe has elbowed its way to the title.
Steps to make Pasta With Bacon And Peas:
- Place frozen peas in a bowl of water to being thawing.
- Start boiling the water for the pasta. You want a large pan with about 4 quarts of water.
- Add chopped onions with just enough olive oil to sauté. The pancetta will add a lot of flavor and fat to the sauce.
- Once the onions begin to become transparent/ or golden if you prefer, add the garlic.
- Add pancetta to the onions and garlic. Keep heat on low.
- Drain peas.
- Add to sauce. Cook for only a couple of minutes more and then remove from heat.
- Once the water comes to a rolling boil, add a handful of sea salt.
- Add the pasta and stir continuously for about three minutes. Then, stir occasionally until the pasta is al dente. I have found this is about 2 minutes before recommended cooking time.
- Drain pasta and combine with sauce. Add Parmesan cheese and parsley, if desired.
- La scarpetta!
COMBINE EVERYTHING Then, you just combine everything together: add cooked and rinsed pasta, cooked peas, cooked chicken, and cooked bacon to the pan with the sauce and mix to combine. Fry bacon in skillet til crisp. Transfer bacon to paper plate to drain, crumbling once cooled. Add pasta and peas to the cheese mixture and toss to coat, adding more reserved water as necessary to moisten pasta. Stir in bacon bits, adjust seasoning, and serve.
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