Pasta carbonara with chicken - the best recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Pasta carbonara is the most popular dish in Italy and has won millions of hearts around the world. The secret of its success is that it is prepared from available products and takes an average of half an hour to cook. 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 housewife 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.
• S alt, basil greens, ground black pepper - at your discretion.

The algorithm for cooking carbonara with chicken is as follows:

1. 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 fillets for about 10 minutes, thenremove the garlic.
2. While the fillet is cooking, boil the spaghetti, after adding olive oil and s alt to the water.
3. Take a bowl, break one whole egg and three yolks into it, add a little s alt and pepper and beat thoroughly until smooth.
4. Now add three tablespoons of grated cheese to the egg mixture and mix.
5. When the spaghetti is ready, drain it in a colander, but don't forget to leave about 300-400 milliliters of water in which they were boiled.
6. Turn off the pan with the chicken fillet and put spaghetti, the remaining butter, and the egg mass on it. Mix everything thoroughly.
7. Pour water from pasta into our pasta in a thin stream, but so that the eggs do not curl.
8. Now turn on a very slow fire and simmer for about one or two minutes.
9. Put the finished dish on a plate, pepper, sprinkle with herbs and the remaining parmesan.

Pasta carbonara with chicken and cream

You will need the following products:

• Chicken fillet - one piece.
• Spaghetti - one pack.
• Bacon - 200 grams.
• Cream 20% - 200 ml.
• Egg yolks - three pieces.
• Parmesan cheese - 60 grams.
• Garlic - two cloves.
• Ground black pepper and s alt - to your taste.
• Olive oil - for frying.

Cooking method:

1. Chicken fillet and bacon cut into small cubes.
2. Chop two cloves of garlic andfry in olive oil for about 30 seconds, remove it from the oil and send the bacon and fillet there and simmer for about 20 minutes.
3. Whip cream and yolks, add grated Parmesan and s alt.
4. Cook the spaghetti according to the instructions.
5. Pour the sauce into the finished spaghetti and add the chicken bacon. Mix everything.

The most delicate carbonara with chicken and cream is ready.

Pasta with mushrooms and chicken fillet

For this chicken carbonara recipe we need:

• Champignons - 300 grams.
• Spaghetti - one pack.
• Chicken fillet - 400 grams.
• Garlic - two cloves.
• Cream 20% - 250 ml.
• Parmesan cheese - 150 grams.
• Olive oil - three tablespoons.
• Basil greens, s alt, pepper and other seasonings - to your taste.

Cooking carbonara with chicken and mushrooms like this:

1. Chicken cut into small cubes.
2. Cut mushrooms into thin slices.
3. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan, dip the chopped garlic in for a minute and remove.
4. Now put the mushrooms in there, fry for about seven minutes, and then add the chicken fillet.
5. As soon as the chicken turns golden, pour in the cream, s alt, pepper and add spices to taste. Cook over low heat for about 25 minutes.
6. Cook the spaghetti as directed on the package, don't forget to add a spoonful of olive oil to the water.
7. Grate Parmesan on a fine grater and add it to the mushrooms and fillets, simmer some moreabout five minutes.
8. Put the cooked spaghetti in a colander and then mix them with the mass in the pan.
9. Serve ready-made carbonara with chicken and mushrooms on an individual plate, pre-sprinkled with basil.

Note to housewives

Some helpful tips:

• To truly Italian pasta, you need to take pasta from the highest grades of wheat.
• Do not overcook spaghetti a little, the Italians call it "al dente" - "by the tooth".
• When you decide on a chicken carbonara recipe, use fresh, unfrozen fillets.
• When cooking pasta, be sure to add a spoonful of olive oil or a little milk to make it 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.