Beef / Pork

Quick Pasta Carbonara is for Dinner.

Quick Pasta Carbonara takes 2 minutes to prepare.

Quick Pasta Carbonara takes 18 minutes to cook.

Quick Pasta Carbonara makes 5 servings.

The ingredients for Quick Pasta Carbonara are:

1/2 lb Barilla piccolini pasta (made with veggies)
4 slices bacon, chopped and cooked crisp
4 oz Neufchatel cheese
3/4 c milk
1 c frozen peas
1/2 c parmesan cheese
garlic and onion powder to taste

Here is how you make Quick Pasta Carbonara:

Start water to boil pasta.Chop and cook the bacon until crisp. Remove the bacon from the pan with a slotted spoon to drain on a paper towel. Reserve 1-2 tbsp of the drippings in the pan and remove the rest. Drop the pasta into the boiling water. Cook 6-7 minutes.Put the Neufchatel cheese, milk, parmesan cheese, peas, and garlic and onion powder into the pan with the drippings. Stir often. Cook until the Neufchatel cheese has melted. Add bacon back into the sauce, or you can reserve it to use as a topping instead.Drain the pasta and add to the sauce. Serve immediately.Serving Size: Makes servingsNumber of Servings: 5Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user TURTLEMYRT.

The nutritional information for Quick Pasta Carbonara is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 5
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 201.9

• Total Fat: 11.1 g
• Cholesterol: 30.2 mg
• Sodium: 354.3 mg
• Total Carbs: 14.5 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1.5 g
• Protein: 11.0 g