Quick pasta with Orava bacon and processed cheese

Name: Quick pasta with Orava bacon and processed cheese
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 500 g Pasta; 150 g Orava bacon (Slovak smoked bacon) (or ham); 1 tub Sour cream; 1 clove Garlic; 100 g Processed cheese; 2 Onions; a little Black pepper; a little Oregano; 1 pinch Salt

Pasta in a creamy sauce of Orava bacon, onion, processed cheese and sour cream with garlic and oregano. Serves 4, ready in 25 minutes.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Servings: 4 servings
Difficulty: Medium
Cuisine: Slovak

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Quick pasta with Orava bacon and processed cheese is a fast lunch where you make the sauce in the time it takes to cook the pasta. Orava bacon (a Slovak smoked bacon) is fried with the chopped onion, the processed cheese melts into it, and finally sour cream with pressed garlic is stirred in. The sauce is not cooked again; it just rests for a moment under the lid so the flavors come together. It is seasoned with black pepper and oregano, and you can replace the bacon with ham.

Instructions

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Chop the onions and bacon and fry them. Meanwhile, cook the pasta. When the onion and bacon are fried, add the processed cheese and let it melt, stirring constantly.
Stir in the sour cream with the pressed garlic, season with black pepper, oregano and salt, and remove from the heat so the sauce does not boil. Let it stand briefly under a lid so the flavors come together.
Finally, toss the sauce with the pasta.

Tip: Save a little of the pasta cooking water – if the processed cheese sauce gets too thick, thin it with it. The bacon is salty, so add salt only after tasting.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 777 kcal
Protein: 26 g
Carbohydrates: 101 g
of which sugars: 8.5 g
Fat: 29 g
of which saturates: 14 g
Fiber: 5.0 g
Salt: 1.8 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Minútové cestoviny s oravskou slaninou a taveným syrom