Authentic Italian Carbonara Sauce Recipe

Italian Carbonara Pasta Sauce with Spaghetti

This recipe for carbonara is a true Italian version using eggs, cheese, bacon, and black pepper.

The origin of carbonara stems from the belief that the dish was first made as a hearty meal for Italian charcoal workers or coal men (carbonari), who used to sell charcoal to the Romans.

Spaghetti Carbonara is commonly used as the pasta, but, fettuccine, rigatoni, linguine or bucatini are also popular choices of pasta to serve with this Scrummy carbonara sauce.