Carbonara is an Italian pasta dish from Italy made with eggs, cheese, bacon, and black pepper. However the Filipino version of this pasta dish contains milk or cream, this adds creaminess to the sauce and Filipino style carbonara doesn't have eggs. It may contains ground beef, pork, chicken, ham, hotdogs or bacons but you can't add eggs when you want a Filipino style carbonara.
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Serve: 4 to 5
Ingredients
1/2 kg Spaghetti Noodles
1/4 kg Ground Pork
2 cups Sliced Cheese Dogs
1 cup Ham (cut into 3/4" square)
1 tbsp Minced Garlic
3 tbsp Chopped Red Onion
1.5 cup Evaporated Milk
250 ml All Purpose Cream
175 g Eden Cheese (grated)
1/2 tsp Chicken Powder (optional)
Salt and Pepper to taste
Procedure
To cook spaghetti noodles, in a large pot pour 4 liters of water and bring to a rolling boil. Once boiling add 3 tbsp vegetable oil and spaghetti noodles and cook according to the packaging instruction.
Adding oil to pasta when cooking is not to prevent it from sticking to each other, it's to prevent the water from boiling over.
Once cooked, place under cold running water to stop the cooking process and drizzle some vegetable oil. This time the purpose of adding oil is to prevent the noodles from sticking to each other.
To prepare the sauce, Heat your pan and saute garlic and onions until fragrance releases.
Add ground pork, season with salt and pepper and cook until slightly brown about 4 minutes over high heat.
Add ham and cheese dogs, cook for 3 minutes.
Add chicken powder (optional), evaporated milk and all purpose cream, bring to a boil.
Once boiling add grated cheese and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Adding cheese will helps thicken up the sauce.
Once the sauce is ready pour it over to the cooked pasta.
Mix and serve!
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