- Hi, friends!
It's Sam, and today I'm gonna show you how
to make my Fast & Easy Carbonara.
Yes, this pasta dish only takes about 20 minutes to make,
dinner on the table, just like that.
Salty, chewy, creamy, smoky, I love it.
All of the delicious flavors,
normally in Carbonara, except made vegan.
Now, traditionally, Carbonara is made with eggs,
bacon, or pancetta and cheese,
so like on the vegan scale, a zero.
(buzzer ringing)
But today, I'm going to show you how to make my version.
Let's get straight to it.
Carbonara here we come.
Okie dokie, so the first thing
I'm gonna do is make the bacon-y, pancetta-y type thing,
and what I love to use for that is sun dried tomatoes.
Sun dried tomatoes are chewy and they have a lot
of rich flavor built right into them.
So I'm just going to chop up these
into some lovely bite sized pieces,
and make sure you get the sun dried tomatoes
that are dry, not the kind in oil.
You can use the other kind,
but I like these ones best because
they will suck up more of that delicious flava,
and that's what we're talking about.
You want about half a cup of the pieces,
but of course I'll have the link
to the full recipe down below,
and all of the measurements and ingredients,
and I'll pop it up here as well.
And now add two teaspoons of soy sauce.
The soy sauce is going to add a lovely salty tang,
and I like soy sauce over just using salt
cause I find it has just a bit more depth,
a bit more flavor.
And then to get the smokiness,
I'm going to use liquid smoke.
Just give that a little toss.
Now I just leave that there
while I do the rest of the work,
so let's hop over to the stove.
So I've got myself a high sided skillet.
You could also use a large pot,
and to that I'm just going to heat up some olive oil.
About that much'll do.
And you'll when that to hot,
I'm just going to add the onions and garlic,
which I chopped up but then I didn't film that
because I thought it would be boring.
I mean, it's chopping onions and garlic, right?
We've seen it before.
(laughing)
Excited for pasta!
Pasta is my most favorite comfort food.
If I'm having like a no good, very bad day,
and I just want to sit down and watch a movie,
and just eat a big bowl of deliciousness,
it's gonna be pasta pretty much every time.
So when the olive oil is hot,
add the onions and garlic.
(sizzling)
Get that sizzle!.
Beauty!
Whew!
Love that smell, every time!
So saute up the onions and garlic for about five minutes
until they turn translucent and begin to brown.
My onions are looking nice and toasty,
maybe a little too toasty.
Shh, don't tell!
So now I just want to sprinkle over my all purpose flour.
If you're gluten free,
you could use all purpose flour blend,
and stir this in to coat the onions.
Now you might be thinking this seems a little weird,
but don't worry, it'll get delicious.
You just want to toast the flour for about one minute,
just like 60 seconds, quick toasty,
just to heat it up a little bit,
and now splash in non-dairy milk.
And give it a whisk.
I used soymilk, but you can use whatever
kind of non-dairy milk you prefer.
Now for seasoning, nutritional yeast.
Black salt, now black salt is
going to give you that egg-y taste.
I tell you all about that in my vegan fried egg video.
I'll pop a link to that video up here.
But if you don't have black salt,
or don't like that egg-y taste,
you can use regular salt and black pepper.
Now just whisk this all together, and cook it up.
It'll cook for about five minutes until
you have a nice lovely thickened sauce.
The flour is going to work its magic
and thicken this sauce.
It's gonna be delicious.
Beautiful!
So my carbonara sauce is thickened up nicely.
If you find your sauce seems a bit too thick,
you can add a bit more water,
or if it seems too thin,
just cook it a little bit more.
Really easy.
So now I'm just gonna add
the pasta and the sun dried tomatoes,
toss it up and that's it.
Oh, and of course we need to boil the water for pasta too.
I should have started that way ahead,
a long time ago because it's going
to take way longer that the sauce,
but, hey, what can you do?
I'll start now.
So now I'm just going to add all the pasta to the sauce.
Whoa, pasta, explosion!
And give it a toss to coat the pasta.
Whew, that smells and is already looking so good.
So fine, so fine.
I almost forgot the sun dried tomatoes.
The piece de resistance.
I toss in the chopped sun dried tomatoes as well.
Now that is what I'm talking about.
Look at that, creamy,
you've got those chewy sun dried tomatoes.
I'm going to serve this up and give it a try.
That's a saucy little pasta.
Yes, creamy!
I mean, I don't even know if you can see that.
Do you see this creamy, deliciousness?
Smells so good!
And I think a little garnish, a little parsley
because pretty!
(laughing)
Now let's give this a taste.
Yes!
Alright, I gotta get delicious bite.
Oh my god!
Okay.
Mmm, mmm, mm, yes.
It's so creamy and lush.
The sun dried tomatoes are chewy and salty
and a little bit smokey.
This right here is pasta heaven.
If you want, you could top it with
my vegan Parmesan restaurant,
which I call Parmegan.
I'll put a link to that recipe down below
as well as the full instructions for this recipe as well.
Mmm, oh yeah, baby, delish!
Mmm!
(clap)
So good.
Yeah, now I just need to go pour myself
a glass of wine, enjoy this pasta.
That's what I'm talking about.
Now if you are feeling that vegan carbonara vibe
and you just want to keep watching
more delicious pasta videos, I get you.
Check out my friend, the easy vegan.
He has a hilarious vegan carbonara video
which made me laugh until I cry.
He's definitely hands-down my favorite
vegan youtuber right now.
So go check him out if you want more fun stuff,
and tell him I said hi.
I hope you enjoyed this video,
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If you give this recipe a try,
let me know how it goes for you in the comments.
I hope you love it as much as I do,
and I'll see you next week.
Bon appetegan!
(groovy music)
Why don't I make that everyday?
It's so good and so easy to make.
(snapping)
Delish, delish.
There's this lovely little bacon-y like chew,
which my hand is chewing.