The recipe is in description
Pasta Papalina a quick and easy first course, very simple and tasty, with many variations. Actually the real recipe comes with fettuccine but as you know I go out shopping to buy something and of course I buy everything except the one I went out for…and here I forgot fettuccine. Not bad, it’s very good even with short pasta. This pasta was born when Pope Pacelli asked the Vatican chef for a more “elegant” version of the classic carbonara and he replaced the guanciale with prosciutto crudo (other versions like mine put the cotto), pecorino with parmesan cheese and butter with oil. In short, all this presentation to tell you that it is a very fast pasta and too good not to try it!
Preparation:
10 minutes
Cooking:
10 Minutes
Difficulty:
Very easy
Portions:
4 people
Ingredients
380 g Pasta
100 g Cooked ham
50 g Parmesan cheese
2 Eggs
half onion
Butter
Halls
Pepper
Preparation
Boil the water for the pasta and salt it.
Put the whole eggs in a bowl, a tablespoon of hot pasta cooking water and the grated Parmesan cheese and beat them with a fork very quickly to create a cream.
Put a knob of butter in a pan and, when it is hot, add the diced ham and finely chopped onion.
Brown the ham and onion for a few minutes.
Drain the pasta directly into the pan and sauté it for a couple of minutes together with the cooked ham and onion then turn off the heat.
Add the egg mixture directly into the frying pan or into a serving bowl and stir very well so that the egg starts to thicken with the heat of the pasta.
Serve always hot with a sprinkling of grated Parmesan cheese and pepper.
VARIATIONS AND ADVICE:
If you want you can add a couple of spoons of cream and make the papalina pasta even more creamy.
If you want you can replace the diced ham with raw ham or speck.
You can put even one whole egg and one yolk.
Do not add the egg with the stove still on or you will make an omelette.
Always use very fresh eggs to make this recipe.
Storage
The papalina pasta is good freshly made, I do not advise you to keep it.
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