Open Carbonara

Step 1

Here are six easy steps to cook a delicious and alternative carbonara pasta:

Step 2

Peel the potatoes and cook them in lightly salted boiling water. Once they are ready, mash them in a salad bowl. Set the cooking water aside.

• Potatoes

Step 3

Peel the celeriac and cut it into 2 mm cubes . Bake it in oven at 120°C for 20 minutes until dried and slightly toasted.

• Celeriac

Step 4

Now put the saffron in a container with 100 ml of water and whisk. Pour it into the salad bowl containing the potatoes, add a little of cooking water and a grating of pepper, then blend in a food processor until the mixture turns smooth and homogeneous, adjusting with some additional water if needed.

• Saffron
• Pepper

Step 5

Toast the crispy soybeans flakes in a nonstick pan with a spoon of olive oil on medium heat for 5 minutes, until golden. In the meantime, blend the celeriac cubes in a food processor in order to get them crumbled.

• Soy flakes
• extra virgin olive oil (EVOO)

Step 6

Cook the pasta in boiling salted water until it’s perfectly “al dente”. Drain it, pour it into the pan together with the saffron and potato mixture and stir gently.

Step 7

Plate the pasta on a dish, pour over the crispy soybeans flakes, the celeriac crumbs and grated pepper to taste.