Appetizer Recipes
Praline Bacon
The sweet-hot Praline Bacon is especially good with creamy, tangy cheeses such as Wisconsin Blue and Gorgonzola.
Servings: 60 to 72 bacon pieces
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup almond meal (or ground almonds, pecans or walnuts)
- 2 teaspoons dry mustard
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 12 slices thick-cut or slab pepper-encrusted bacon*
- Blue cheese or gorgonzola cheese for accompaniment
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Combine all ingredients except bacon in wide, shallow dish. Dip and press each slice of bacon in sugar mixture on both sides. Lay bacon strips on large, rimmed baking sheet.
- Sprinkle additional sugar mixture over bacon slices in pan.
- Roast bacon until fat begins to render, about 6 minutes.
- Rotate pan front-to-back and continue roasting until bacon is crisp and brown, about 8 to 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven, cool and break or cut each bacon strip into 5 to 6 bite-size pieces.
- Serve warm or cold with cheeses.
Notes
* If pepper bacon is not available, add two tablespoons course ground black pepper to sugar mixture.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from:
Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin