Carbonara + Homemade Pizza Recipe

Cooking is one of the things we love to do. Eating is another thing, haha!

Seriously, home cooked meal is always the best right? So instead of buying from fast food restaurant, we just cook carbonara + pizza at home.

Carbonara is an Italian pasta dish from Rome made with egg, hard cheese, guanciale, and pepper.  Carbonara is creamy white unlike the red-orange color of spaghetti.

Pizza is another is another savory dish of Italian origin. For us, pizza is best paired with pasta like carbonara.

Although we like dining out at our favorite pizza parlor, when we crave for pizza we simply do it at home using bread slices as its dough.

Below are easy recipe of carbonara and homemade pizza that you can make at home. For sure, your family will enjoy these.

Carbonara

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kilo spaghetti noodles
• 1 cup all purpose cream
• 1 medium-sized onion, minced
• 1 medium-sized bell pepper, minced
• 1 cup cooked ham, chopped
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbs cooking oil
• 1/2 cup grated cheese, additional for toppings
• Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Cook spaghetti noodles according to packaging direction. Set aside
2. In a pan, sautee onion and bell pepper in butter and cooking oil mixture. Adding cooking oil will prevent the butter from immediate burning.
3. Add all purpose cream and simmer.
4. Add cooked ham and grated cheese.
5. Continue simmer until sauce thickens.
6. Add cooked pasta and mix well.

Serve topped with grated cheese.

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Homemade Pizza

Ingredients:

• 6 slices loaf bread
• 1 pack Del Monte Italian Pizza Sauce
• Grated cheese
• Hotdogs, sliced thinly
• Pineapple chunks
• Fresh Basil leaves

Directions:

1. Pre-heat oven at 150C.
2. Line greased baking pan with loaf bread. This will be the pizza crust.
3. Spread enough Del Monte Itallian Pizza Sauce on the crust.
4. Place the remaining ingredients ( Grated cheese, hotdogs, pineapple chunks, basil leaf) as toppings.
5. Cook in the oven fro 10-15 minutes.
6. Serve while hot.

Serving size: 4