Meals with pasta and eggs
Egg-based pasta sauces are the secret to the best quick pasta dishes.
The egg cooks from the heat of the pasta and creates a silky sauce without any cream.
Easy meal ideas
Carbonara-style pasta
Toss hot pasta with beaten egg and grated cheese — heat cooks the egg into a silky sauce.
Pasta frittata
Mix leftover pasta with beaten egg, cook like a frittata in a pan until set.
Egg yolk pasta
Toss hot pasta with an egg yolk, butter, and cheese for instant richness.
Pasta with fried egg
Cook pasta, fry an egg in olive oil until crispy-edged, serve on top with the egg oil as sauce.
How to stretch these ingredients
- Work quickly — egg sauce seizes if pasta cools down
- Lots of black pepper is not optional in carbonara-style dishes
- Pasta water is the key to carbonara — add it slowly to emulsify
- A pasta frittata is the best use for leftover pasta
- Crispy fried egg on pasta creates two textures at once