Quick way to make a really tasty carbonara-style pasta sauce. Serve over cooked pasta.
Ingredients
- ounces bacon: 6 piece (diced)
- onion: 1 piece (diced)
- garlic: 1 Tbsp (minced)
- Alfredo sauce: 1 jar (12 ounce jar)
- water: 0.5 cup
- roma (plum) tomatoes - halved, seeded, and: 3 piece (chopped)
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Stages of cooking
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Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain all but about 2 tablespoons bacon drippings from skillet. Cook and stir onion with bacon in reserved drippings until onion is translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Add garlic; cook and stir until fragrant, 2 minutes.
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Pour Alfredo sauce into onion-bacon mixture; rinse jar with the water and pour into skillet. Stir sauce with a wooden spoon, thoroughly scraping any brown bits of food from bottom of the skillet. Bring sauce to a simmer; add tomatoes. Simmer sauce until flavors blend, about 5 minutes.
