Home cooks are praising this viral ‘easy to make’ slow cooked carbonara recipe

Is this the best pasta EVER? Home cooks are praising this easy, creamy five-hour slow cooked carbonara

  • Australian foodies are obsessing over a simple but delicious carbonara recipe 
  • The slow cooked meal requires nine ingredients and tastes ‘amazing’ 
  • But the indulgent meal takes 5.5 hours to make in the slow cooker  

Foodies around Australia are praising an ‘easy to make’ slow cooked chicken carbonara recipe.

The meal was recommended by several people part of the Slow Cooker Recipe & Tips Facebook page, which boasts more than half a million ‘likes’.

To make the dish, you’ll need chicken thighs, bacon, mushroom, onion, garlic, cream of chicken condensed soup, thickened cream and penne pasta. 

The meal was recommended by several people part of the Slow Cooker Recipe & Tips Facebook page, which boasts more than half a million ‘likes’

To make the dish, you'll need chicken thighs, bacon, mushroom, onion, garlic, cream of chicken condensed soup, thickened cream and penne pasta

To make the dish, you’ll need chicken thighs, bacon, mushroom, onion, garlic, cream of chicken condensed soup, thickened cream and penne pasta

Those who have made the meal have dubbed it as ‘delicious’, ‘divine’ and the ultimate crowd-pleaser everyone will love.

To make the dish simply add the chicken, onion, bacon, mushrooms and stock cubes into the slow cooker then pour over the soups and creams.

Then stir together and cook on low for four hours.

Place the uncooked pasta in the slow cooker and gently combine, then leave to cook on high for a further 1.5 hours.

 

The end result is perfectly creamy with a golden glaze with pieces of bacon and mushroom scattered throughout.

The end result is perfectly creamy with a golden glaze with pieces of bacon and mushroom scattered through the dish

The end result is perfectly creamy with a golden glaze with pieces of bacon and mushroom scattered through the dish

‘Definitely going to try this one,’ one woman wrote on Facebook.

‘I need to buy a slow cooker so I can make this!’ another said.

While the carbonara is simple to make, some didn’t approve of the long cooking time.

One man said the meal would only take ’20 minutes’ to cook on the stovetop compared to 5.5 hours in the slow cooker.

How to make the carbonara in a slow cooker:  

Ingredients:

  • 1.5kg chicken thighs diced
  • 300g bacon diced
  • 400g mushrooms sliced
  • 1 onion diced
  • 2 tablespoons of crushed garlic
  • 3 cans cream of chicken condensed soup
  • 600ml thickened cream
  • 2 chicken stock cubes
  • 750g pack of penne pasta

Method:

Add chicken, onion, bacon, mushrooms, stock cube into 6L slow cooker

Pour over soups

Add cream 

Stir together 

Cook on low for 4 hours

Put pasta (uncooked) in slow cooker 

Gently combine

Cook on high for a further 1.5 hours and serve

Source: Slow Cooked Chicken Carbonara