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Five A Day Carbonara
Kids love pasta. If you have difficulty getting your children to eat vegetables, this pasta dish is for you as my kids love it and its quick and easy to produce for an evening meal.
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Ingredients:
400g dried spagetti
125g of chopped pancetta or streaky bacon
1 brown onion
2 gloves garlic
100g of button mushrooms
15 broccoli florets
120g frozen peas
120g fresh or frozen broad beans
2 handfuls of spinach leaves
25g unsalted butter
2 free range eggs + 2 egg yolks
50g of grated parmesan |
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Serves: 4 children |
Steps
- Cook the spaghetti in a large pan of boiling salt water
- Heat some oil in a casserole dish, add the butter
- Add to the pan the pancetta or bacon and cook until crispy
- Add the onions, garlic and mushrooms, reduce the heat and cook very gently for 5 minutes until the onions are soft
- While the onion and mushrooms are cooking beat the eggs into a bowl large enough to contain the spagetti
- Fold in the Parmesan cheese and season with salt and pepper
- With 5 minutes before the pasta is ready add to the salt water pan the broccoli, peas and broad beans
- When cooked, drain the pasta and add the pasta to the bowl containing the beaten eggs and cheese
- Add the spinach to the pasta
- Add the mushroom, onion and bacon
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