Open Carbonara

Open Carbonara

Carbonara is one of the most loved pasta dishes in the world.

Guanciale, Roman pecorino cheese, eggs, salt and pepper: 5 ingredients that conquered many palates. But whether for health conditions, culture or personal choices, the recipe that many people love cannot be enjoyed by everyone.

That's why this year, to celebrate Carbonara Day, we created an alternative carbonara recipe to finally turn one of the most loved pasta dishes
into a more inclusive one.

The Recipe

Together with a team of international chefs, we created a delicious, more inclusive carbonara recipe inspired by the original one, but Halal, Kosher, Vegan, lactose free and gluten free, so that many more people around the world can finally enjoy it.

Egg Bacon Cheese and pepper
A picture of the purple saffron flower used as an egg substitute.

EGG SUBSTITUTION

To recreate the creaminess of the eggs we used mashed potatoes, water and saffron.

Soy in a blue bowl.

Guanciale Substitution

The crispy guanciale was made using toasted soy.

Celeriac in a blue circle.

Cheese Substitution

Pecorino Romano cheese was substituted with dried celeriac.

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Carbonara sprinkled with cheese and pepper in a rustic blue bowl.

Open Carbonara is a delicious alternative to the original recipe, with ingredients that many more people can enjoy.

The Squad

Led by Marco Martini, the squad consists of six renowned chefs coming from different parts of the world, with different cultures and culinary traditions.

Specialising in Halal, Kosher and Vegan cuisines, each of them brought to the table a different area of expertise to create the Open Carbonara recipe, turning one of the most loved dishes in the world into a more inclusive one.

Marco Martini

The lead chef, Marco Martini, has guided his restaurant in Rome since 2016. Among the many dishes, carbonara has always been present in his career as a chef. He also invented the now famous "Negative of Carbonara" stuffed pasta ravioli, when he was only 24 years old.

Asma Khan
A photo of a chef to accompany the Open Recipes campaign.

Asma Khan is one of the UK's most prominent chefs, the owner of one of London's best Indian restaurants - Darjeeling Express. The food served is an homage to Asma's Mughal ancestry and the streets of Calcutta, and all of the meat served is certified Halal.

Giulia Tomelleri

Giulia Tomelleri is a vegetarian food creator. On her social channels she shares totally-veg dishes, coming up with alternative tasty recipes with no meat. Giulia thinks that reducing our consumption of meat and meat products can be a great step to a bigger change.

Victoire Gouloubi

Victoire Gouloubi is one of Italy's best-known chefs. After opening her own restaurant, she is now on TV as the face of Gambero Rosso. She advocates for a more inclusive cuisine for women and her cooking philosophy is a "message": a culinary bridge between Africa and Italy.

Manuel Kanah

Manuel Kanah is a development manager living in Italy, where he has a home restaurant. He’s co-founder of the first and most famous Jewish cuisine/kosher food blog in Italy: "Lebna".

Bowl of pasta with a creamy sauce, on a pink plate sitting on a white, red and blue tablecloth.

We created Open Carbonara because we believe that a sign of love becomes truly meaningful when it can be experienced by as many people as possible. But we couldn't stop there...
Barilla has always cherished people coming together at the same table: that's why we are creating a way to add as many seats - and recipes - as possible. Stay tuned to discover Open Recipes: a new platform that will soon turn your most beloved pasta recipes into more inclusive dishes that many more people can enjoy.

But we couldn't stop there. Barilla has always cherished people coming together at the same table. That's why we created Open Recipes: our new platform that transforms your most beloved traditional pasta recipes, with alternative options that many more people can enjoy together. Open your kitchen to new possibilties!

Explore Open Recipes today.