Skinny Carbonara (Jamie Oliver)
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Pip
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A very delicious and different version of spaghetti carbonara, from jamie’s ‘everyday super food’
10 mins
20 mins
508 kcals
serves 2
SKINNY CARBONARA
I recently bought Jamie Oliver’s latest recipe book Everyday Super Food (click here), so many of the recipes look brilliant, but this is the first one that I fancied trying- it’s pretty far from a traditional carbonara, but it really was delicious, and I definitely recommend trying it!
Skinny Carbonara (Jamie Oliver)
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 2 1x
Description
A very delicious and different version of spaghetti carbonara, from Jamie’s ‘Everyday Super Food’
Syns: 4 per portion
Ingredients
Scale
- 200 g fresh or frozen peas
- 1 tbsp flaked almonds
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/2 bunch fresh basil (15g)
- 15 g parmesan
- 1 lemon
- 150 g wholewheat spaghetti
- 2 rashers lean bacon (fat removed and finely diced)
- 1 large egg
- 100 g fat free natural yoghurt
- 1 tsp olive oil
Instructions
- Put a pan of salted boiling water on the heat for pasta, and then dunk a sieve containing the peas into the water for 30 seconds- then set the peas aside and leave the water simmering.
- Lightly toast the almonds in a dry, non-stick frying pan (careful not to burn!) and then pop into a food processor with the garlic clove, a little sea salt, the basil leaves the grated parmesan and the lemon juice. Blitz it all up, and then pulse in the peas.
- Cook the spaghetti according to the packet instructions, and while it is cooking, fry the bacon slowly in 1 tsp olive oil until nice and crispy.
- Remove the bacon from the pan and set aside, and then heat 3/4 of the pea mixture through in the frying pan
- Whisk the egg and yoghurt together well, when the pasta is done, scoop out a mugful of the water to save, and drain the spaghetti.
- Toss the spaghetti into the frying pan with the pea mixture, mixing well. Take the pan off the heat (so you don’t scramble the egg)
- Pour in the egg mixture to the spaghetti and toss until evenly coated, silky and creamy, loosening with the water in the mug if needed.
- Season it well, and then serve topped with the remaining pea mixture and the crispy bacon.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
