So the recipe I am going to post today is Udon Carbonara. Some of you may ask, what is udon carbonara?
For those of you who don't know:
Carbonara: Pasta alla carbonara (usually spaghetti, but also fettuccine, rigatoni or bucatini), is an Italian pasta dish based on eggs, cheese (Pecorino Romano or Parmigiano-Reggiano), bacon (guanciale or pancetta), and black pepper.
Udon: a type of thick wheat-flour noodle of Japanese cuisine.
Initially, I got this idea from seeing it on the menu at this asian fusion restaurant. Except they totally tried to "Asian-ize" it, using pork belly instead of bacon or pancetta, adding edamame in it, just adding a poached egg on top instead of making the sauce with it, and some other stuff. It wasn't that great. The noodles were all soggy; it was pretty tasteless because the taste from carbonara comes from the saltiness of pancetta or bacon, which they didn't use; and it wasn't creamy since they clearly didn't use egg and cream for the sauce...I didn't know what they used. In fact, here is what their version looks like (If you don't know which restaurant I'm referring to yet, I'm talking about IZAKAYA ON ELGIN STREET).
Coincidentally, I was taught how to make Carbonara by an actual Italian right before I saw this. So hence, that's how I knew quite a bit about carbonara, how to make it, the theory behind it, etc.
With my version, I bascially used the Carbonara recipe (all the same ingredients and methods), subsituting Udon noodles instead of pasta. It actually tasted great!
- bunches of pancetta or bacon (amount to your own liking); i used pancetta so I will write the recipe with pancetta
- an egg
- equal parts of cream (about the same amount as the egg, slightly more)
- ground black pepper- a pack of udon noodles
- parmesan cheese
Prepare your sauce mixture. Mix the egg, cream, and ground pepper in a bowl and set it aside to use later on.
Cut up the pancetta into bite sized pieces. Heat up some oil on the frying pan and cook the pancetta until the juices come out.
At the same time, boil a pot of water to cook your udon noodles, once the water is boiled, cook for about 2 minutes or whatever it says on the package. You should start cooking your udon when the pancetta is almost about ready.
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