The First Italian Carbonara Recipe 1954

Italy's First Carbonara?

Straight from La Cucina Italiana... here is the first recorded Carbonara recipe.

400g spaghetti
150g pancetta
100g gruyere cheese
2 eggs
1 clove of garlic
Salt
Pepper

Method:
Heat plenty of salted water to cook the pasta.

Chop the pancetta and cut the gruyère cheese into small cubes.

Once the water comes to a boil, add the spaghetti and stir. Let cook for about 15 minutes, depending on the size of the spaghetti, and drain well: remember that spaghetti is better when served al dente.

Pour the eggs into a bowl, and whisk them with a fork as if you were preparing an omelet. Put the bacon and crushed garlic (which will then be removed) in a large pan to fry.

Add the spaghetti, eggs, gruyere, and plenty of pepper.

Stir well, continuing to do so until the egg mixture starts to thicken. Then pour the spaghetti onto the serving plate and serve immediately.

#carbonara #pasta #italianfood #cooking

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Italy's First Carbonara?

Straight from La Cucina Italiana... here is the first recorded Carbonara recipe. Now, is it the first time anyone in Italy had Carbonara or is it the only way to make carbonara? No and no. Please watch the FULL video linked to this one to see the WHOLE story.

400g spaghetti
150g pancetta
100g gruyere cheese
2 eggs
1 clove of garlic
Salt
Pepper

Method:
Heat plenty of salted water to cook the pasta.

Chop the pancetta and cut the gruyère cheese into small cubes.

Once the water comes to a boil, add the spaghetti and stir. Let cook for about 15 minutes, depending on the size of the spaghetti, and drain well: remember that spaghetti is better when served al dente.

Pour the eggs into a bowl, and whisk them with a fork as if you were preparing an omelet. Put the bacon and crushed garlic (which will then be removed) in a large pan to fry.

Add the spaghetti, eggs, gruyere, and plenty of pepper.

Stir well, continuing to do so until the egg mixture starts to thicken. Then pour the spaghetti onto the serving plate and serve immediately.

#carbonara #pasta #italianfood #cooking

[nisnast]

I love how the italians took a foreign recipe removed a few ingredients and said "yeah we made this"

[jameshoxworth]

I love how Italians complain about “traditional” stuff that was made only recently

[cammycalves]

The Italians: “NOOO you substituted one single ingredient for a very similar one NOOOO THAT’S NOT HOW YOU MAKE IT MOM COME PICK ME UP”

Meanwhile the Japanese: “oh you put cream cheese in sushi and deep fried it? Cool!”

[CarlosMedina-jcnu]

Can we try the war-time-supplies version? With powdered egg and dehydrated bacon like in the 40's

[holymackenaw]

1954. And italians act like its some kind of roman dish from 50bc. 😅

[dannous]

You missed one think: the original recipe reads “tritare la pancetta” it means “mince the pancetta” so the meat was supposed to be much smaller and not diced like today. Interesting

[benkubisiak]

This video is an example of why i think a lot of people who get bent out of shape about how a dish must be made exactly this or that way miss a lot of what makes food good. Many recipes didnt reach their exact modern form until surprisingly recently. Also it's fun to experiment and figure out what makes a dish good in your eyes. Figure out how a dish is supposed to be made first so you get it down and have something to work from but once you knwo what you're doing substitute or add things that you think will go well. If i make an otherwise perfect carbonara but add some extra ingredients like onions because i like them it isnt helpful to get mad that i changed the recipe.

[-desertpackrat]

Me seeing recipes while literally eating Progresso's "chicken bacon carbonara soup" from a can that I microwaved for 50 seconds - "This is fine."

[Denise]

As a Mexican American who grew up eating Americanized or alternative ingredients for Mexican recipes. I can guess that’s probably how this recipe came about. It was probably hard for them to find authentic ingredients so they improvised.

[nanettil]

You are a treasure! Maybe I can help with the cheese? The word about the small cubes is "dadolini", which means *extremely* small cubes, say, 2-3 millimeters. Hope this help 😊

[MikosoOsaco]

Omg i hope lionfield sees this video 😂 collab i didnt know i needed

[hattocatto]

when I'm in a being pretentious competition and my oponent is an Italian talking about food: 💀💀💀

[pascalsimioli]

As an Italian it's really sad to see my country being united only in food, only sometimes and only for "traditional food" that is sometimes younger than the same Italians defending it.

Just eat whatever you want and cook it however you want it, it's food ffs. We didn't invent the concept of food.

[georgewbushcenterforintell]

French taught the Italians how to cook

[Lingiskhan]

And in 1950, the Italian newspaper La Stampa wrote about the Roman dish, called Pasta alla Carbonara, being a favorite and sought-after dish among American officers after the liberation of Rome, 1944.
Also based on older recipes, the dish used to be called by another name. Also it's related to other Roman dishes, like Pasta alla Gricia and Pasta alla Amatriciana. Carbonara is basically a Gricia, but with eggs.
Gricia btw, has history at least since 1920's, but could actually have history since Papal Rome(756-1870), basically around or before the unification of Italy(1859-1870).

[gruyereAOP]

I knew I had a special connection with Italy 🤌🧀

[MrGrape-lqdw]

This’ll be perfect to make for my Italian gf

[andreweden]

I've got to get my hands on some of those trendy kitchen forceps that everyone seems to have all over the cooking tube.

[laski]

Did you know, Gruyere is a Swiss Cheese😁