Pasta is a staple in our household. One of my signature recipes that my husband absolutely loves is my alfredo sauce. I have played with this alfredo sauce quite a bit using both bacon and chicken as my meat. Both proteins make excellent pasta dishes. This is a bacon pasta alfredo sauce.
Since I’m a mom on a budget, I’ve substituted parmesan cheese with grana padano with great success. To grate it, I use my mini food processor. It just saves you time. Don’t even bother doing it by hand, unless you don’t have a processor. I have a 3-in-1 mini-food processor that I use as immersion blender and food processor at the same time. It has been a time-saver for me and a kitchen workhorse that deserves space in my limited kitchen cabinet.
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This is a very easy recipe to make with ingredients you already have in your refrigerator or pantry. For the bacon, I buy cut-up bacon in packages because it’s cheaper. I don’t need large bacon strips here because I want them small anyway.
Mushrooms and garlic 
Parmesan cheese ready for processing 
Alfredo sauce in need of pasta water
To make my pasta a real meal, I add mushrooms and parsley for my vegetables, bacon for my meat, and pasta for my carbs. I use macaroni, but this also works with spaghetti noodles. This is a very forgiving recipe so use whatever pasta you have.
Bacon Pasta Alfredo
Ingredients
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 6 pcs mushrooms sliced
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 3/4 cup Parmesan cheese grated
- Bunch of parsley finely cut
- 1 to 2 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Add olive oil in pan. Cook bacon, and once cooked, remove from pan into a plate.
- Add butter into pan. Saute garlic, until golden but not brown. Add mushrooms.
- Add heavy cream, and then parmesan cheese.
- Cook pasta until al dente.
- Add 1/4 cup of pasta water into alfredo sauce.
- Add cut parsley.
- Mix pasta and alfredo sauce together.
- Plate with pasta, top with bacon, freshly grated Parmesan cheese, and parsley.
