Pasta with a creamy smoked bacon and pea sauce
Posted: 04 May '10 by Ciara
Pasta with a creamy bacon and pea sauce
With my sister and her 3 kids visiting at the weekend i thought that I’d search through www.channel4.com/food for a few recipes. I decided upon the pasta with creamy smoked bacon and peas sauce for the kids.
They loved it – and with very little cooking required, so did I!
Ingredients:
- 10 slices smoked streaky bacon or pancetta
- A small bunch of fresh mint, chopped finely
- 150g Parmesan cheese
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 400g dried or fresh pasta
- Olive oil
- A knob of butter
- 300g frozen peas
- 2 heaped dessertspoons crème fraîche
- 1 lemon
Method:
- Finely slice the bacon.
- Pick the mint leaves and discard the stalks.
- Finely grate the Parmesan.
- Cook the pasta according to the packet Instructions.
- Add olive oil and knob of butter to a large frying pan over a medium heat.
- Add the bacon and pepper and fry until golden and crisp.
- Finely chop your mint leaves.
- When bacon is cooked, add frozen peas and give the pan a good shake.
- After a minute, add crème fraîche and mint to the bacon and peas.
- Drain the pasta reserving some of the cooking water.
- Add the pasta to the frying pan.
- Half your lemon and squeeze the juice over the pasta.
- When it begins to bubble, remove from the heat.
- If the sauce is too thick for you, add a splash of the reserved cooking water to thin it out a bit.
- Add the grated Parmesan and give the pan a shake to mix it in.
- Plate up and server.
Enjoy!
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