Zucchini Carbonara
Servings
2people
Cook Time
15mins
Servings
2people
Cook Time
15mins
Ingredients
Zucchini pasta
Carbonara Sauce
Instructions
Make Zoodles
  1. Use a mandoline to cut the Zucchini into “spaghetti” strips.
  2. You can stop once you reach the seeds in the center of the zucchini – they aren’t really structurally useable to make pasta.
  3. Salt the Zucchini “pasta” to help draw a little of the water out of the vegetable.
  4. Microwave on high for 2 minutes to soften the pasta and start it cooking.
  5. Drain off any water that has come out of the “pasta” and reserve it. We’ll use it later to add to the sauce to stop it seizing.
Sauce
  1. Chop pork into 1cm chunks, and fry in a frypan until crispy and the fats have rendered out. If your pork doesn’t have a lot of fat (eg: if you are just using lean bacon) then just add a tablespoon of Olive oil.
  2. Add zoodles to the frypan with the pork and toss in the oil until it’s just started to go golden – then take the pan off the heat and allow the momentum of the pan to finish cooking the zoodles.
  3. Make a double boiler using a glass bowl sitting on top of a pan containing a little water brought to a boil. We’re going use this to cook the yolks slowly without letting them curdle.
  4. Add Egg Yolks, Wine, Cheese and a little Pepper to the double boiler and whisk while gently heating until combined into a smooth sauce. If the eggs do start to form lumps in preparation to curdling you can take the bowl off the pan and put it on a tea towel letting the temperature drop while whisking.
  5. Once the sauce is silky smooth add it to the cooling Pork/Zucchini pan and gently fold through – the eggs will finish cooking from the residual heat in the Zucchini. If the sauce starts to seize (get very thick) you can let it down by adding a little of the Zucchini water you reserved earlier.
  6. My plate here you’ll see seized up a bit because I put the hot cheesy sauce on a cold plate, and didn’t really have enough Zucchini water to add to it at the end. I probably should have added an additional teaspoon of hot water.