Il Carbonara Cavaliere Infornato ( The Baked Carbonara Knight)

I was out with my mom to a fruit juice kiosk, The Fruit Station. At the shop, they got pizzas, baked pastas, 'nasi dagang etc. So I try the baked pasta and one of the pizzas. I impress with the baked pasta because the taste is quite awesome. Then I asked my mom "Mom, can you teach me how to make a baked pasta?" asked me. "It's just simple, I can teach you. First you need to make the sauce of the pasta, then you just put it in the baking pot layer by layer of pasta and the sauce." she said. So I went back and surf the internet to search about how to make this baked pasta. I list down the ingredients of the baked pasta. Actually I don't prefer to use other chef's recipe so I create my own recipe of baked pasta. In my Carbonara sauce, I use a bit of black pepper and yellow capsicum. I use black pepper because I like the heat produced by the black pepper. Almost all of my recipe I add some black pepper. Yellow capsicum is use for garnishing since baked pasta is a little bit dull in their colour. Capsicum is one of the best ingredients to cheer up the colour. You can also use other types of ingredients to cheer up the colour of this pasta such as tomatoes or spinach.

Il Carbonara Cavaliere Infornato

Ingredients: Capsicum, Cheddar cheeses, milk, Bay leaves, mushrooms, black pepper, salt, sugar, Pasta(fettucinne, Penne, Macaroni), corn flour, broccoli, chicken.

Method: Boil some chicken's bone to have the chicken broth. Add the Bay leaves, salt, sugar and black pepper. Remove the chicken's bones. Put 7 or 8(or anyway you like) cheddar cheese fillets in the soup. Pour half cup of milk inside. Stir it well. Mix the corn flour with water in a bowl then stir it well until it smooth. Pour the flour mixture in the soup. Stir it well until it concentrated. Dice the capsicum and add it into the soup. Slice the broccoli and the mushrooms adn place it in the soup. Let it simmer for a few minutes.

In a baking pot, put one layer of boiled fettucinne. Then pour the carbonara sauce on the fettucinne layer. Then Cover the top of the layer of carbonara sauce with cheese. Repeat the step for a few times until it covers your baking pot. Lastly, cover your pasta with bread crumbs or crushed cornflakes. Place it in an oven and bake it for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 180 degree celcius. Then it is ready to eat!

To make sure the pasta is cooked or not, you just feel it with a fork, if the fork did not stick in, it means your pasta is cooked. You can replace the bread crumbs with mashed potato. It could be nice too. Have a try and good luck! :)

~Chef Luq