Creamy Pasta with onion, mushrooms and bacon

So this isn’t a carbonara as such (note the lack of egg) but to me it is sort of

This is a nice quick dish and the Ingredients for it are pretty basic

• Onions (I used shallots once again .. softer flavour)
• Pancetta (Bacon / cured ham of some sort you could chop up a couple of rashers if you wanted)
• Mushrooms (I’d have generally used button mushroom but I used some Shiitake Mushrooms here as there’s a nicer flavour from them
• Cream
• Pasta (ideally you’d use tagliatelle in this case I used fusilli)

Steps:

1. Chop the onion and throw it on the pan with a bit of olive oil (I chopped the onion in half and sliced it rather than chopping up really small)
2. Throw the Pancetta onto the pan as well and cook a bit (I usually end up removing excess fatty bits cus I’m like that)
3. Chop the mushrooms up again I kept it fairly big and throw on the pan cook for a few minutes
4. Stick on your pasta (depending on cooking times)
5. Throw the cream in and wait for it to thicken up a bit
6. Drain your pasta and mix the sauce into it in the sauce pan
7. If you’ve got parmesan cheese now would be a good time to use it

And enjoy ..

This turned out rather nicely 9/10 from me .. the Fusilli may not have been the best choice in the world but it was still a really nice dish about 15 – 20 minutes from start to finish.