Finest Spaghetti Carbonara

What is it?

Spaghetti sits in a cream-and-egg sauce with Parmigiano Reggiano, beechwood-smoked lardons and Italian cured pancetta. It comes as a frozen meal, meant to be heated from frozen until the pasta is hot through and the sauce has turned silky. Compared with simpler pasta dishes in the range, this one leans on cured pork and cheese for its flavour base. The sauce is the usual carbonara style, so it's built around egg, cream and savoury meat rather than tomato. Both lardons and pancetta appear in the mix, which doubles down on the smoky, salty pork notes. Expect the spaghetti to absorb some of the sauce as it heats, so stirring halfway through cooking helps keep everything coated evenly rather than drying out at the edges.