Carbonara. Humble ingredients—eggs, noodles, cheese, and pork—combine to create glossy, glorious pasta carbonara. It's the no-food-in-the-house dinner of our dreams. For a quick dinner, whip up Tyler Florence's authentic Spaghetti alla Carbonara recipe, a rich tangle of pasta, pancetta and egg, from Food Network.

In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook spaghetti according to package directions until al dente. In a medium bowl, whisk eggs and Parmesan until combined. Luscious and wonderfully indulgent, pasta carbonara takes as long to make as it does to cook the pasta. You can have Carbonara using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Carbonara

You need of spaghetti (enough for 2ppl).
It's 150 of g/1pack smoked cubed bacon/pancetta affumicata.
It's 2 of eggs beaten.
Prepare 1 of red onion chopped.

The ingredients are simple—just spaghetti (or other long pasta), and the carbonara is made with pancetta or bacon, eggs, Parmesan, a little olive oil, salt and pepper. This is a favorite late-night dinner for my husband and I. John's favorite meal is carbonara; he always asks for it on his birthday. We also make it when he plays with his rock band.

Carbonara step by step

Place your spaghetti into a pan of boiling salted water..
As soon as spaghetti starts cooking take a frying pan with extra Virgin olive oil on low heat and put in your bacon cook the same time as the spaghetti 2 minutes before spaghetti is ready add your onion..
Once spaghetti is ready drain out and put into your frying pan with the other ingredients pour your beaten egg (you may also like to add pepper to your egg) Stir all your ingredients together until the egg is cooked..

John doesn't like to eat dinner before a show so this has become our favorite midnight supper after a gig. Pasta carbonara is best fresh, but if you're going to reheat, it is best to reheat pasta carbonara over the stove, and not in the microwave. I can't eat, think about, dream about, or even remotely consider Pasta Carbonara without thinking of Heartburn, the Meryl Streep/Jack Nicholson movie from the eighties that I both love and hate. Love, because it's incredibly written by Norah Ephron and incredibly acted by Meryl and Jack. Carbonara (Italian: [karboˈnaːra]) is an Italian pasta dish from Rome made with egg, hard cheese, cured pork, and black pepper.