Easy Peasy Chicken Carbonara

This is so easy and so delicious it should be illegal haha. Basically, I needed to make pasta to fuel Scott for his 12 mile run tomorrow morning but I didn’t want to make anything super hard because, well, I’m lazy :p Lucky for me I had some leftover chicken from last night and some bacon… and dinner was decided… Carbonara. The recipe makes enough for four generous portions.

Ingredients:

• 5 slices center cut bacon; diced
• 1 Tbsp garlic; minced
• 2 leftover chicken thighs
• 2 Tbsp fresh parsley; chopped
• 2 large eggs
• ¾ c grated parmesan cheese
• 8oz thin spaghetti

Directions:

•  Put diced bacon into a cold pan, set to medium high and cook till crispy to render all the fat out.
• Meanwhile, start a pot of water and bring to a boil. Then add thin spaghetti and cook as directed on package.
• Whisk the two eggs and parmesan cheese together.
• When bacon is rendered, remove with a slotted spoon and set aside but reserve fat in pan.
• Add the leftover chicken to pan and reheat.
• Add in the garlic and let cook for about a minute then remove chicken and lower heat to low.
• Drain pasta; reserving 1/3 c of pasta water.
• Add pasta, the egg/parmesan cheese mixture and half of the bacon to the pan. Combine all ingredients so everything is incorporated.
• To serve plate pasta, add chicken, top with fresh parsley and extra bacon.

 
The goal is to eat slow enough to taste the deliciousness… Scott missed that step haha.