Pretty Pasta Bites

Preparation

Let’s start by boiling up a pot of thin spagetti, but before you throw your pasta into the pot go ahead and break it in half. Boil your pasta until it is al dente (firm but not hard) and reserve 1 cup of pasta water before you drain it!

Put your drained pasta back into your pot and stir in the butter.

Now grab a small bowl and crack the eggs in it. Remember the 1 cup of pasta water we reserved? Slowly whisk that into your eggs. (Are you wondering what the heck we’re doing here? We are tempering our eggs! The eggs in this dish will help hold our pasta bites together but I can’t just add eggs into the hot pasta without them scrambling. Slowly incorporating the hot pasta water will gradually bring the temperature of the eggs up and will help prevent them from being cooked instantly.)

Now we can stir our tempered eggs into our hot pasta without them scrambling all over the place! (Pretty cool, huh?)

Next, in a hot skillet fry up pancetta and minced garlic. Add the crispy pancetta and garlic to the pot of pasta along with a handful of chopped green onions and a heaping handful of grated Parmesan. Don’t forget to season this pasta with a touch of salt and pepper! Stir all of these ingredients together then twirl a bite of your pasta right out of your pot. Place that twirled bite into a greased mini muffin pan. If topping these bites with more Parmesan cheese sounds like a good idea to you, then I think we need to hang out more often because that’s a super good idea!

Place your muffin tin in a 350ºF oven for 15 minutes. When your pasta bites come out of the oven, allow them to cool for a bit then place them on a pretty platter!

Enjoy!