Pasta Carbonara

Ingredients

• 50-80g of dry pasta per person. You can also use fresh pasta if you'd like;
• 1 whole egg (per person) + 2 egg yolks. Example: for 2 people it would be 2 whole eggs + 2 egg yolks
• Pecorino cheese (you can also replace for parmegiano regianno if you don't find it). I don't measure this and usually add as much cheese as necessary for the creamy texture. Just make sure you don't add to much otherwise you won't have a sauce but instead, a block of melted cheese. If you need some guidance I would say 3 tbsp of pecorino cheese per person;
• 80-100g of Guanciale per person. You can find this in italian specialized grocery stores (in Vancouver it's Bosa Foods). If you can't find it, you can also use pancetta or bacon;
• Black pepper: as much as you like.

Directions

1. Put water with salt to boil and add the pasta when water is boiling
2. Start frying the guanciale in a frying pan. No oil is necessary as guanciale already has a lot of fat. Use medium heat;
3. While guanciale is frying on the pan and pasta is cooking, prepare the sauce and don't throw away the fat as it will be really important for the sauce;
4. The sauce is basically whisking the eggs, egg yolks, pecorino cheese and black pepper all together. You don't need to spend too much time here, only enough for mixing everything;
5. Once pasta and guanciale is done (if guanciale gets ready before the pasta is cooked, set it aside until pasta is done), add the pasta to your frying pan (it cannot be insanely hot, but hot enough to cook the eggs without making them scrambled eggs) and right after the sauce.
6. Once you add the sauce, you need to start mixing everything very quickly to avoid overcooking the eggs.
7. Add some water from the pasta as it will help with create the desired sauce texture (be careful for not adding too much water, probably 1-2 tbsp of water is enough). It's important to add the water from the pasta cooking process as it has starch and it will help with the sauce texture.
8. Finish the dish with more pecorino cheese and black pepper as you like.