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What are your favorite six-ingredients-or-less recipes? (self.food)

submitted 1 year ago by gameboy to c/food

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Growing up I enjoyed a book called "Six Ingredients or Less" which - you guessed it - featured recipes that used only six ingredients or less. Do you have a killer recipe or two that fits this theme?

Spices (dried or fresh) don't count. Bonus points if it is at least somewhat healthy.

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[–] mellisdesigns 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Carbonara ...

Garlic Bacon Spaghetti 2 eggs Parmasen Pepper

Boil salted water and add spaghetti until aldente
Cook around 6 cloves of garlic in olive oil
add the diced bacon and cook until crispy
whisk two eggs, parmasen and pepper in a bowl
take bacon off heat and let pan cool down slightly
remove garlic cloves from pan
add spaghetti into the pan with bacon with a tablespoon of the water the spaghetti cooked in and mix
pour in the egg mixture into the pan with the bacon and spaghetti and mix
put spaghetti onto bowl and crack pepper and a splash of olive oil on top
eat the goodness

Notes: make sure the pan is not too hot otherwise the egg mixture will turn into an omelette which you don't want.

[–] bananacles@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I have success going the route of adding spaghetti directly from the pan with the bacon (or guanciale if I happen to have it) right into a bowl with the egg/cheese instead of egg/cheese into the pan. Residual heat does a good job of getting egg to a creamy texture.