Can you replace heavy cream with all purpose cream when making Carbonara?

If so, will it affect the texture of the sauce?Can you replace heavy cream with all purpose cream when making Carbonara?
STOP: There is no cream in (a real and in the original) Carbonara!!!! It's the eggs that make it creamy. This dish comes from Lazio (Rome) and they generally do not cook with creams.





PS. It's ';ciao'; and not ';chow'; (GI term for food) to say hello or goodbye in Italian.


PSS. I've run your question by some 15 or 20 Italians and though some say they use a bit of cream the overwhelming amount of them swear that cream is just a modern day invention.


PSSS – as for the meat. It should be “guanciale” or smoked pork cheek meat. If you don’t have that some smoked pancetta will do. If you can’t find pancetta then do what i do and use some smoked bacon.


PSSSS - to answer your question: No, a bit of ';panna';, heavy cream, will probably not affest the texture of the sauce. And PLEASE - do not use yogurt!


Buon appetito!Can you replace heavy cream with all purpose cream when making Carbonara?
Genius, Robert, and Happy are right. My mother never uses cream.
YOU WILL END UP IN A NON EATABLE FOOD





P.S. I TRIED THAT ONCE !!!! HEHE
Yes-not noticeably, maybe a bit thinner.
it will be fine you just have to reduce it or simmer it a little longer to get the same thickness that heavy cream gives the sauce. so as a note if you are adding egg yolks the same as a traditional carbonara you will have to add the yolks a little later than what you usually would.
yes...you can. just add a little chicken stock to your heavy cream.





chow!
A proper carbonara doesn't have cream. It uses egg yolk.
The texture isn't that much different, as when you are heating the cream it tends to get thicker anyway. It just doesn't have the same creamy 'kick' if you get what I mean. And the sauce is a tad lighter.





But it works, generally speaking.
You can also replace it with sour cream or try yogurt.
e-rcps.com has the original, best recipe for pasta carbonara. No cream is used and all that fat isn't good for you anyway. Try this method.