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What are your"too lazy to cook" recipe ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I mean the one you do when you want something easy to do, but not when you're tired at the point you microwave a frozen-meal, or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bruh lmao. Carbonara requires cooking bacon/guanciale/whatever cured pork product, boiling noodles, grating cheese, making a sauce that can break pretty easily if you're not careful... You're looking at at least two pots, a knife, a greater, a strainer, and a serving bowl at minimum to clean afterwards. How is that a lazy recipe?

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Here's how I do it:

Boil pasta. Not exactly difficult.
Throw some cubed bacon in a skillet with plenty of butter and a splash of olive so the butter doesn't burn. Low heat.
While all of that is happening, grate some Grana Padano. If you don't have any, parmesan works fine and tastes nearly as good.
Lightly whisk eggs.
Throw the pasta into the skillet with the bacon and butter, and slowly add int the eggs and and cheese tour grated. Bit of pasta water won't go wrong either. If you've eaten carbonara before, you'll know when to remove everything from the heat. Shouldn't take longer than 2 minutes.
Black pepper and oregano if you'd like. Can't go wrong with either.

In total I'd say 25 mins of prep + cooking. Dishes to wash: a pan(with just pasta water, pretty easy to wash) a skillet, one grater, a bowl and a fork you used to whisk the eggs. And I guess the plates and cutlery you use to eat.

Lazy enough to not make a crap tonne of things, but not lazy enough that I just microwave some ready-made meal. Imo, it fits the question.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol yeah I know how to make carbonara. It requires at least 25 minutes of active cooking. There are no steps where you can set and forget something. You have to be near the stove the entire time it's being made.

It's a relatively quick recipe, sure, but I definitely wouldn't classify it as lazy.

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fair enough. I would, I find that if I want to make a dish, it's probably gonna take over 40 mins, so 25 mins is pretty quick, and doesn't take much effort.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Black pepper "if you'd like"... in Carbonara? Do we know what the "carbon" in carbonara is not so subtlety hinting at?

Also, your instructions are misleading at the "throw the pasta" step. You need to take the pan off heat before you add the egg and cheese and a add little of that pasta water should in pan before egg/cheese as well - otherwise you're making scrambled egg pasta with oily separated cheese clumps instead of a creamy carbonara.

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the additions.