You can never go wrong with pasta for dinner, as not only is it rich and delicious but very versatile, so you can add anything you like to the dish.
This hearty pasta recipe was designed by Mary Berry as a “quick” dinner as it only takes five minutes to prepare and 10 minutes to cook.
In her cookbook ‘Mary’s Quick Cooking’, Mary wrote: “Here is my delicious sauce that can be on the table in only 15 minutes.”
This dinner is perfect for when you are craving something comforting during the week but do not want to go into the trouble of cooking something extravagant.
The pasta sauce has only five simple ingredients as well, meaning that this midweek meal is very cheap to make.
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Instructions
To begin, heat up the olive oil in the frying pan.
While the oil is heating up, boil your pasta in a separate pot. Follow the instructions on the packaging but it should roughly take around 10 minutes to fully cook,
Chop up the bacon and add it to the frying pan on a high heat. Cook for five minutes until the bacon is lightly browned and the fat has rendered.
Add the cream to the pan and then bring it to a boil.
Once boiling, reduce the heat and bring it to a simmer for one minute.
Remove completely from the heat and add in the grated parmesan cheese to melt.
Add in a squeeze of lemon juice as well to “cut through the richness” according to Mary.
Season with pepper and your creamy pasta is now ready to be served.
Mary has advised not to season the dish with salt. She wrote; “Be careful with the salt, as the bacon may already be quite salty.”
