Egg spaghetti alla chitarra with speck

Recipe for spaghetti with bacon and eggs

Preparation and cooking

• - Boil spaghetti alla chitarra in abundant salt water.
• - Meanwhile ...
  ... prepare ingredients for pasta sauce.
  Cut speck (smoked ham) into thin strips.
  Put olive oil in a non-stick frying pan.
  Beat eggs with chives, a pinch of salt and chili pepper, if you like it, in a bowl.
• - Drain pasta very well and transfer into the pan together with speck strips.
  Start cooking over a medium heat, stirring well.
  As soon as oil is hot, pour in beaten eggs, stir quickly and turn off the stove at once.
  Be careful: your eggs must not cook entirely and your sauce must be creamy.

Just before serving

• - Serve immediately.
  Accompany with a little bowl full of grated Parmesan.

Note

Tips

• - This pasta can not be prepared in advance and can not be heated up.
  If you have guests, you can organize yourself by putting everything at your fingertips. A pot full with water on the stove, weighed pasta, cut bacon, measured oil ... It is very quick to do!
• - Use fresh chives every time you can.

Menu planning

• - This egg spaghetti dish is similar to carbonara pasta but it is made with bacon and not with guanciale.
• - Prepare this dish for your family menu or get-togethers with friends and relatives. You can combine it with a lot of meat dishes for a full menu, Italian style.

Healthy eating

• - Family menu. Despite its ingredients, this dish of spaghetti alla chitarra is not an Everest of calories and fat. Everything depends on the fact that, being egg pasta, you need a smaller portion then usual and then the other ingredients were weighted very well: 1 egg and only 20 grams of bacon per head. But be careful not to add other courses to this pasta dish unless you choose seasonal vegetables dressed with 1 teaspoon olive oil per head or fruit.

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What's the right wine ?

Pair a red wine to this egg spaghetti recipe such as Meranese di Collina or Lago di Caldano (red wines from Trentino - Italy)