Claire's Spinach Carbonara

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Paired this fabulous (and easy recipe w/ her Blue Cheese Chicken and what a meal! I love carbonara and this is so good!

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Had a friend over for lunch and I made this. It was so delicious, easy, and quick!

My butcher didn't have slab bacon so I used pepper bacon instead and eliminated the peper in the sauce. I also added sauted sliced baby bella mushrooms. I too drained the bacon grease and added a little more pasta sauce.

My son LOVED the leftovers!

Claire is fast becoming my favorite Food Network Chef as well and would like to second the request for her to write a cookbook!

P.S. I would be interested to know, if Claire were to add a 6th or 7th ingredient what would it be? I think that would be a great note to add to the recipies online.

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I made this tonight b/c all my meat was frozen. It was DELICIOUS!! I didn't have slab bacon, so I used thick-cut bacon, and it worked fine. ( I wouldn't use a salt pork substitute. Cream is not needed in the sauce. Just reserve enough pasta water and you'll be fine. My husband and I really enjoyed this dish, and we both went back for seconds!! Good news...we still have some leftover!!!
I love Claire's recipes. I wish she'd make a cookbook!!!

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Claire is fast becoming my favorite Food Network Chef. I love the 5 ingredient concept and the Spinach Carbonara was great. I wasn't sure the hubby would like it, but, he did and mentioned how much he liked it for several days. You have to love a dinner you can put on the table in less than 45 minutes.

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I did not enjoy the spinach noodles. I will try again with regular noodles.

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carbonara is one of my all time favorite pastas and i've tried making it before with horrible results. all i had on hand were: egg noodles, thin-cut regular non-flavored bacon, and a bottle of kraft grated parmesan cheese (the cheap green bottle kind - the recipe turned out GREAT! my little changes: i crushed whole black peppercorns and added garlic to my bacon as it was finishing up. i also drained some of the bacon fat and added more pasta water for more a more creamy result.

I LOVE YOUR SHOW CLAIRE!!!!

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We didn't have slab bacon, so we used thick cut bacon instead, but it still worked. This was my first attempt at Carbonara & I have to admit, it was so easy and super yummy!

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I've made Carbonara a few times, and this is a really good version. I make it with pancetta instead of bacon, but still cut thickly. I cut it into bite-size chunks and fry it in olive oil with 2-3 cloves garlic. I also used spinach penne instead of spinach fettucine so the sauce sticks to the ridges of the pasta.

Usually, i use cream in the sauce, but i did not even miss the cream in this recipe! when the pasta was done cooking, I reserved 1 cup water, drained the pasta, returned the pasta to the pasta pot, then added a little cooking water, pancetta, and garlic to the pasta, then slowly added in the egg and cheese mixture over very low heat. I stirred it consistently until everything was smooth, then added the spinach.

Very good carbonara recipe, I would definitely recommend!

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I did not know that cream was omitted make sense to have it I made it tonight it was very very good, but got dry fast I did add the pasta water to make it thinner but I think you should use cream maybe 1/4 cup or so..

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I printed this recipe on the 20th and it said...

"Meanwhile, whisk the egg and yolks, cream, 1 cup of cheese and pepper together in a small bowl."

Now the word "cream" has been omitted.

I am fixing this for supper tonight so I wondered about the cream and when I looked it up again I saw that there has been a running discussion on it.

I can't wait to taste it!

My rating is on how I THINK it's going to taste.