Friday 14 August 2015

Marco asks, "Have you ever tasted a real 'Spaghetti alla Carbonara'” ??????


A lot of people like “Italian Cooking” but what they really know about it ? 


The majority of strangers eat Italian food in their own countries, in restaurants  that seems Italian but aren’t, cooked by chefs came out of nowhere.I will just give you one example in order to show you how this could work. Let’s try to find the Carbonara Recipe on internet. I’ve typed on Google “ Carbonara Recipe” and I’ve found from bbcgoodfood the following recipe:



Learn to make Spaghetti Carbonara:

Ingredients: 400 g spaghetti, 1 tbsp olive oil, 200 g smoked pancetta cubes or streaky bacon, chopped, 2 garlic cloves, crushed, 3 eggs, 75 ml double cream, 50 g Grana padano or parmesan, finely grated, plus extra to serve

Method:
Cook the spaghetti. Bring a large, deep pan of salted water to the boil. Plunge spaghetti into the water, stir well and cook, following pack instructions. Aim for 'al dente': cooked, but retaining some bite in the middle. Take a few strands out of the water with a spaghetti spoon or tongs 1-2 mins before the end of the cooking time and bite into it. Repeat until you think it is properly cooked. 
Fry the pancetta. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a frying pan. When hot, tip in the pancetta or streaky bacon. Fry over a medium heat until the fat in the meat has melted down into the pan and the meat has turned lightly golden. Be careful not to crisp the pancetta too much; it will be cooked a little bit more later on in the recipe. Remove from the heat and set aside.
Prepare the sauce. Crack 2 of the eggs into a mixing bowl. Separate the yolk from the third egg: gently crack the side of the shell and, using both hands, slowly open it into two halves over a separate bowl - you want to keep the yolk in one of the halves. Tip the yolk from one shell half to the other and repeat until all the egg white has fallen into the bowl below, taking care not to crack the yolk on any rough shell edges. Tip the yolk in with the other eggs and beat together, along with the cream, the cheese and some seasoning. 
Combine the dish. Add garlic to the pancetta and return frying pan to hob. Fry over high heat for 1 min or until garlic is cooked and pancetta warmed through. Meanwhile, drain spaghetti. Tip back into the hot saucepan off the heat. Pour egg mixture over pasta, followed by hot pancetta, garlic, any fat and oils. Toss quickly and thoroughly with spaghetti spoon or tongs. Mix until it has thickened to a smooth, creamy sauce. Serve with extra cheese and freshly ground pepper.

Do you think an Italian cooks “Spaghetti alla Carbonara” in this manner ???  
None, only between the ingredients there are 5 errors.
Here's the Italian recipe.

Spaghetti alla Carbonara

Ingredients: 350 g spaghetti, 150 jowl bacon chopped into cubes, 4 eggs, 100 g of Pecorino

Method:

Cook the spaghetti. Bring a large, deep pan of water to the boil, then add salt, not as usual, because jowl bacon and pecorino are salty. Plunge spaghetti into the water, stir well and cook, following pack instructions. Aim for 'al dente': cooked, but retaining some bite in the middle. Take a few strands out of the water with a spaghetti spoon or tongs 1-2 mins before the end of the cooking time and bite into it. Repeat until you think it is properly cooked. 
Fry jowl bacon chopped without oil in a frying pan. Fry over a medium heat until the fat in the meat has melted down into the pan and the meat has turned lightly golden. Be careful not to crisp the pancetta too much. Remove from the heat and set aside until it will become lukewarm. 
Prepare the sauce. Crack 4 of the eggs into a mixing bowl and beat together, along with the cheese and some black pepper.
Combine the dish. Add to the sauce to jowl bacon in the bowl. Meanwhile, drain spaghetti. Put the drained spaghetti into the bowl. Toss quickly and thoroughly with spaghetti spoon or tongs. Mix until it has created to a smooth, creamy sauce. Serve with pepper.

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