Cream Cheese and Bacon Pasta

This is a 10 minute meal. Great during lunch break when working from home.

I cook on an induction hob. Getting a pot full of water to a boil is fast. On slower hobs, heat up the water in an electric kettle. I used Buccatini pasta with 8 min cooking time and cooked them in very salty water. That way, I used the pasta water to loosen the sauce and did not need any extra salt.

Start the pasta. Chop the spring onion and the garlic very fine. If you us bacon rashes, chop them. Otherwise use bacon bits. In a tsp of butter start with the bacon. After a couple of minutes, add onion and garlic and season with pepper.

Now the pasta has given up enough starch to the water that you can transfer 50 ml to the pan. Melt the cream cheese it it. When the pasta is ready, drain it and transfer it to the pan. Beat the egg and pour it over and mix it through, cutting off the heat first.

Chop some parsley for the finish.

100 g Buccatini pasta in salted water

1 small spring onion, 1 clove of garlic, 50 g bacon

1 tsp butter, pepper, 50 g cream cheese, 1 egg, parsley