Carbonara pasta is the most popular dish in Italy and has won millions of hearts around the world. The secret of her success is that she cooks from available products and takes about half an hour to cook on average. Let's look at a few recipes where the main ingredient is chicken.
Classic pasta recipe
Carbonara with chicken is prepared easily and simply, even a novice hostess will cope with this dish. For cooking, we need:
- Chicken fillet - 300 grams.
- Durum wheat spaghetti - one pack.
- Eggs - four pieces.
- Parmesan cheese - 100 grams.
- Butter - 40 grams.
- Olive oil - one tablespoon.
- Garlic - two cloves.
- Salt, basil greens, ground black pepper - at your discretion.
The cooking algorithm for carbonara with chicken is as follows:
- Cut the chicken fillet into small cubes, crush the garlic with a knife, heat the butter in a pan and send the chicken and garlic there. Fry the fillet for about 10 minutes, then remove the garlic.
- While preparing the fillet, boil the spaghetti, previously adding olive oil and salt to the water.
- Take a bowl, break one whole egg and three yolks there, salt a little, pepper and beat thoroughly into a homogeneous mass.
- Now add three tablespoons of grated cheese to the egg mass and mix.
- When the spaghetti are ready, throw them in a colander, but do not forget to leave about 300-400 milliliters of water in which they were boiled.
- We turn off the pan with the chicken fillet and spread the spaghetti, the remaining butter, and the egg mass to it. Mix everything thoroughly.
- Water from pasta is also poured into our pasta in a thin stream, but so that the eggs do not curl.
- Now turn on a very slow fire and simmer for about one to two minutes.
- We spread the finished dish on a plate, pepper, sprinkle with herbs and the remaining parmesan.
Carbonara pasta with chicken and cream
You will need such products:
- Chicken fillet - one piece.
- Spaghetti - one pack.
- Bacon - 200 grams.
- Cream 20% - 200 milliliters.
- Egg yolks - three pieces.
- Parmesan cheese - 60 grams.
- Garlic - two cloves.
- Ground black pepper and salt - to your taste.
- Olive oil - for frying.
Cooking Method:
- Cut the chicken fillet and bacon into small cubes.
- Chop and fry two cloves of garlic in olive oil for about 30 seconds, remove it from the oil and send the bacon with filet there and simmer for about 20 minutes.
- Whip cream and yolks, add grated parmesan, salt.
- Cook the spaghetti according to the instructions.
- Pour the sauce into the prepared spaghetti and add the bacon and chicken. Mix everything.
Delicate carbonara with chicken and cream is ready.
Pasta with mushrooms and chicken fillet
For this recipe for carbonara with chicken we need:
- Champignons - 300 grams.
- Spaghetti - one pack.
- Chicken fillet - 400 grams.
- Garlic - two cloves.
- Cream 20% - 250 milliliters.
- Parmesan cheese - 150 grams.
- Olive oil - three tablespoons.
- Basil greens, salt, pepper and other seasonings - to your taste.
We cook carbonara with chicken and mushrooms like this:
- Cut the chicken into small cubes.
- We cut champignons into thin plates.
- Heat the olive oil in a pan, dip the chopped garlic in it for a minute and remove.
- Now put the mushrooms in there, fry for about seven minutes, and then add the chicken fillet.
- As soon as the chicken becomes golden, pour cream, salt, pepper and add spices to taste. Cook over low heat for about 25 minutes.
- Boil the spaghetti as indicated on the package; be sure to add a spoonful of olive oil to the water.
- Grate the parmesan on a fine grater and add it to the mushrooms and filet, simmer for about five more minutes.
- Throw the cooked spaghetti into a colander and then mix them with the mass in a pan.
- Serve the finished carbonara with chicken and mushrooms on an individual plate, after sprinkling with basil.
Mistresses note
Some useful tips:
- To make the paste truly Italian, you need to take pasta from higher grades of wheat.
- Do not cook spaghetti a little, the Italians call it "al dente" - "by little tooth."
- When you have decided on the recipe for carbonara with chicken, take fresh, unfrozen fillet.
- When cooking pasta, be sure to add a spoonful of olive oil or a little milk to make them more delicious.
- You can use any cheese, but parmesan is ideal.
- Any mushrooms are suitable for making pasta, it all depends on taste preferences.
- Cream use at least 20% fat.