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Bacon is a type of salt-cured pork made from various cuts, typically from the pork belly or from the less fatty back cuts. It is eaten on its own, as a side dish (particularly in breakfasts). Bacon or "bacoun" was a Middle English term used to refer to all pork in general.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have bacon & ham carbonara - quick & easy creamy pasta using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bacon & Ham Carbonara - quick & easy creamy pasta:
- Get 300 g cooked spaghetti or pasta of choice
- Take 4-5 strips Bacon rashers, coarsely sliced crosswise
- Make ready 4-5 strips Ham
- Take 1 medium red onion, minced
- Get 1/2 can button mushrooms, halved and sliced
- Prepare 3-4 garlic cloves, minced
- Get 1 can (reg size) Campbell's Mushroom Soup
- Get 1/4 bar butter or margarine of choice
- Make ready 1 box (small size, 200-300ml) Nestle cream (or similar)
- Take 1/4 Chicken stock cube or bullion
- Get to taste White ground pepper
- Prepare Dash Knorr or Maggi Liquid seasoning (optional)
- Take Handful crispy bacon bits (for topping)
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Steps to make Bacon & Ham Carbonara - quick & easy creamy pasta:
- Note for new cooks: Cook pasta according to package in salted (1tsp) and oiled (few drops) water. Remove and strain 1-2 minutes earlier than package instructions for al dente pasta and set aside. Ideally 100g pasta per person.
- In a non stick sauce pan, cook bacon in medium heat without oil til slightly crisp. Remove bacon, set aside. Drop in sliced ham and cook in the bacon oil.
- Remove ham when cooked. Set aside. In the same pan, lower heat, sauté the onions, then add the garlic. Add the butter or margarine then drop in the sliced mushrooms.
- After a few minutes, add back the cooked bacon and ham. Mix in.
- Pour in the mushroom soup. Increase heat a notch. Mix well until heated through then add the cream and continue mixing.
- Keep stirring for a few more minutes. Then do a taste test for flavour and saltiness. Depending on the type of bacon, ham and mushrooms you used, it may not need any additions.
- Add a couple dashes of white pepper. And if you feel it lacks flavour or saltiness to break through the richness of the cream, ground a 1/4 piece of a Chicken stock cube and sprinkle around the pan. Mix well.
- Taste test with a little pasta- the sauce can be flavourful on its own but can taste lacking if eaten with pasta. If so, adjust accordingly. Add few drops of Knorr seasoning if desired. More pepper, to taste.
- Arrange in serving plates separately (pasta, sauce, & bacon topping) so one has the choice of how much sauce to put on their pasta. :) Note: Combining the sauce and pasta will also lessen its fridge life. So best to separate in case of leftovers. Serves 2-3. For more, just double the amounts.
The salted and smoked meat from the back and sides of a pig. Bacon definition: Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig. How to make spectacular bacon, the easy way. Bacon cooked in the oven definitely gets crispy, but I also find that it retains a bit of chewiness near the middle, especially when cooking thick-cut bacon. Bacon definition is - a side of a pig cured and smoked; also : the thin strips cut from bacon. b : thin strips of meat other than pork that is cured and smoked turkey bacon.
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