Easy Tomato and Bacon Carbonara
Easy and delicious carbonara pasta dish!
Servings: 6 people
Ingredients
- 1 pound pasta spaghetti or any long noodle are ideal
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic - crushed
- 1/2 cup bacon crumbles make sure it's real bacon not bacon bits (I buy the big costco bag)
- 1-1/2 cups tomatoes - chopped I use cherry tomatoes cut in half
- 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese - plus more for on top
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons reserved pasta cooking water
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions, save 2 tablespoons of cooking water.
- Drain and set pasta aside, do not rinse pasta.
- In a small bowl, add eggs and whisk together.
- Take 2 tablespoons of hot water that your pasta was cooking in and slowly whisk it into your egg mixture.
- Set egg mixture aside.
- In a large pan, add olive oil and crushed garlic and saute over medium heat for 1 minute.
- Add bacon and stir for 1 minute.
- Add tomatoes and stir for another minute.
- Add your pasta to the pan and mix in the bacon, tomatoes and garlic.
- Add Parmesan cheese and salt and mix it into the noodles.
- Shut heat off and remove pan from hot burner.
- Add the egg mixture and quickly stir the noodles so they get coated in the egg mixture.
- Top with more Parmesan cheese and serve.