carbonara.
A thick Italian pasta sauce, made with guanciale, grated cheese, beaten egg yolks and pepper.
Meaning & usage
A thick Italian pasta sauce, made with guanciale, grated cheese, beaten egg yolks and pepper.
A spaghetti dish made using such a sauce.
A spaghetti dish made using a similar sauce made from a different type of cured pork than guanciale (such as bacon, pancetta, lardons, gammon or ham).
Where this word comes from
From the Italian carbonara, shortening of alla carbonara (literally “in the manner of charcoal burners”, or “in the manner of the Carbonari”), ultimately from carbone (“coal”).
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