Creamy Kimchi Bacon Spaghetti

Creamy Kimchi Bacon Spaghetti is a type of pasta with a Korean twist, prepared with spaghetti noodles where it is tossed in a creamy and mildly spicy sauce prepared with bacon, parmesan cheese, fermented cabbage in chillies (kimchi) and cream.

The first time I tried something similar to our dish today was in Kimchi Project way back in 2019 where I ordered this Kimchi Spag Pasta with Prawns. I really liked that dish, like I mentioned on that blog post it was unexplainable. Its spicy, sweet, creamy, savoury, al-dente goodness is a force to be reckoned with. It was my honest opinion, I never knew that it would work before but it did, in the best way possible. In paper, fermented, sour and spicy kimchi with creamy sauce does not sound right but in reality, it did and exceeded my expectations. Today we are making this at home and see if it still has the same outcome like what we had on Kimchi Project.

I am not sure about the history of this dish but one thing for sure, dishes like this is quite popular in Korea in fact chopped kimchi found its way already as a garnish on mainstream food items hence you see them on hotdogs and burgers. It does not stop there, kimchi also made its way on dishes as its main ingredient too like in lasagne, mac and cheese, grilled cheese sandwich and basically anything cheesy like our recipe for today. Cheese and Kimchi is just a match made in heaven, the acidity and spiciness with that creamy cheese is such a pleasure to the palate as it blends well together with each other.