ALFREDO CARBONARA

Girls Together Lunch 

Outstanding gorgeous rich buttery creamy white wine, bacon, mushroom and parmesan sauce served over pasta, a bowl of comforting sumptuous spoon food shared with my outdoor girl friends a real carb overload just what we needed on a bitter cold winters day after we had turned out all the horses, set up all the stables, feed the pigs, sheep and goats, put new bedding down and filled to many hay nets to count, we earnt this carbohydrate overload.

Prep time 10 mins / Cooking time 20 minutes

Ingredients 

2 tbsp butter

 1 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp plain flour

1 onion finely diced

1 clove garlic grated 

8 rashers sweetcure bacon diced

8 mushrooms sliced

200ml white wine

200ml chicken stock

400ml double cream 

100g grated Parmesan 
1 tbsp fresh parsley

2 pinch Himalayan sea salt 

1 pinch white pepper

500g pack pasta shapes

First bring a deep saucepan of water to a rolling boil, season with one pinch of the sea salt, add the pasta and cook for two minutes less than the packet instructions, around 6 minutes.  Meanwhile heat a skillet medium hot heat, add the butter and olive oil then the onions and garlic soften for five minutes, add the bacon and mushrooms and cook for a further couple of minutes, turn up the heat, add the white wine and reduce by half, turn the heat down to a medium hot again.

Sprinkle over the flour and stir in with a whisk, cook the flour for a couple of minutes then add the chicken stock and cream and gently whisk in until combined, season with salt, pepper and Parmesan.  Meanwhile drain the pasta and add to the sauce along with a couple tablespoons of the pasta cooking water, that's it serve your silky smoothie sumptuous with a sprinkling of fresh parsley and garlic butter toasted bread.