Salty, smokey bacon stirred through buttered pasta and dressed with a soft egg. The yolk oozes over the pasta and creates a fabulous additional sauce.
This Brunch pasta dish is simple to make, delicious to eat and costs pennies to make! Winner!!!
If I open the fridge on any given day I know I will find, eggs, milk, bacon, butter, tonic water, parmesan, tomatoes and smoked salmon. There's probably also a floppy carrot and a dried out spring onion! Oh and a bottle of sparkling wine!!!!!!
Plenty of food in there to make dinner, lunch or breakfast, and even an evening drink! That all said it doesn't stop me reaching for the pasta on an almost daily basis. We all love it, I have a collection of pasta shapes that would rival Giada's and I never run out of ideas.
So I fell back onto one of my favourite dishes, my brunch pasta with bacon and egg. Not just any brunch pasta! A brunch pasta that takes me right back to uni, when brunch meant a meal served somewhere around 1pm, drinking red bull and watching re-runs of Quincy and trying to pick the longest straw so you didn't have to do the washing up.
Ha, those were the days!!! Oh and of course loads and loads of studying (Just in case my Dad is reading this 😉 )
Back then the bacon was the cheap offcuts, the eggs were probably caged and there was a very real lack of green herbs. But essentially the dish has remained the same.
Bacon and onion cooked slowly in olive oil so the bacon releases all it's salty smoky goodness into the oil. This mixed with a little pasta water and a pat of butter and you have an instant sauce for your pasta.
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Garnish with a sunny side up egg, a sprinkling of parsley and serve to be demolished whilst watching Peter Falk explain it all. Wait that was Columbo!!! 😉 Ha, I know Quincy was Jack Klugman. And both shows were regular brunch re-run entertainment!
Now a days this dish is served on a Sunday around 11, with a cup of coffee and Pokemon on the TV....Oh how life has changed....apart from the washing up, I still wish I could get out of that one.
Enjoy x
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Brunch Pasta with Bacon and Egg
Ingredients
- 5 oz bacon
- ½ onion
- 2 teaspoon olive oil
- 5 oz short pasta
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- Finely chopped parsley
Instructions
- Dice the bacon and set aside.
- Peel and finely dice the onion.
- Place the bacon into a cold skillet with the oil and set it over a medium heat.
- Meanwhile bring a large pot of water to the boil. Add a generous pinch of salt and cook pasta for a minute less than the packet suggest.
- Whilst the pasta is cooking give the bacon a stir, it should be starting to crisp slightly. Add in the onion and season the mixture with salt and pepper.
- Cook for a further 5 minutes until the onion is translucent and soft.
- Remove from the heat and add the butter.
- Reserve a cup of the pasta cooking water then drain the pasta.
- Tip the bacon mixture along with ¼ cup of the water into the pasta pan, add the pasta and set over a low heat and stir well.
- Pour the vegetable oil into the skillet and fry the eggs until the white is set but the yolk is still soft and oozy.
- Stir the pasta again, adding more water if needed.
- Serve the pasta in large bowls with an egg on top and a final garnish of parsley.
Nutrition
Nutrition is per serving
Helen @ Scrummy Lane says
Oh Claire, it's breakfast for dinner/Brinner. My absolute favourite.
This is carbonara at it's easiest and best.
I'm literally drooling over that runny egg!
Claire McEwen says
I love the term brinner!!!! And that is so perfect here!!!
Aren't runny eggs are just the worst photos! They always have me wanting to run to the kitchen! 😉
Sandi says
OMG I love your pasta for breakfast recipe! This is totally genius and I can't wait to try it 🙂
Claire McEwen says
Thank you Sandi, I think pasta makes so much sense as a breakfast dish. Well I think pasta makes so much sense anytime of the day 😉
Thao @ In Good Flavor says
This brunch pasta looks amazing! I LOVE the egg with the runny yolk. I can eat this pasta again and again. Pinning.
Claire McEwen says
Thank you for pinning. Pasta is my favourite food ever!!!!!! 😀
Karly says
Pasta. For brunch. It's like you know me! Seriously, this is amazing. MUST try it soon!
Claire McEwen says
Thank you Karly! Pasta is just the best!
Rita says
Hello Claire, I am a new fan, I was worried I haven't seen any new recipes for weeks! Love this one! Looks really nice
Claire McEwen says
Hi Rita, thank you for following and noticing I have been absent.
I had such a busy May I found it hard to get recipes up. Now getting back into it is harder than I expected.
I do have a few recipes coming this week though 😀
Dorothy Dunton says
Hi Claire. What a lovely, inviting dish! In my book nearly everything is better topped with an a nice runny egg. I would happily eat this any time of day.
Claire McEwen says
Runny egg yolks are just the best!!! Like you know, pasta is my all day every day food fav xx