Spaghetti With Vegetable ‘carbonara’

"This is a very colourful and easy dish. For added colour you could also use tricolour spaghetti. I’m not sure what an Italian would make of this vegetarian version of carbonara sauce, but here at Blakey Towers it goes down a treat!"
 
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Ready In:
25mins
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
3-4
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ingredients

  • 12 ounces spaghetti
  • 2 medium egg yolks
  • 8 fluid ounces double cream
  • 2 ounces grated parmesan cheese, divided
  • salt & freshly ground black pepper
  • 8 ounces baby carrots, halved lengthwise
  • 4 ounces asparagus tips
  • 2 small courgettes, cut into quarters and pared into ribbons
  • 2 ounces sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, drained and sliced
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directions

  • Following the packet instructions, begin cooking the spaghetti in a large pan of lightly salted water.
  • Make the sauce by beating together the egg yolks, cream and half the parmesan, seasoning to taste.
  • About 4 minutes before the end of the spaghetti cooking time add the carrots; just before the end of cooking time, add the asparagus and courgette ribbons.
  • Drain the spaghetti and vegetables, then return to the pan over a low heat; pour in the sauce and heat gently, stirring constantly, until the sauce has thickened (do not overheat or the eggs will scramble); stir in the sun-dried tomatoes.
  • Serve immediately with the remaining parmesan and extra black pepper.

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I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London. I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too! I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food! I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them! <img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/kzbhansen/Banners/Animation3.gif"> My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly. As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too. If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
 
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