Bacon Recipes: Appetizers, Main Courses, Dessert

Battered Bacon Strips, Chocolate Covered, Peppered and Bacon Poppers

Oct 20, 2008
Robert Allen

Here are ten different styles and flavors of bacon recipes to serve to guests as entrees or appetizers.

Battered, breaded bacon strips

These are wonderful appetizers, and can be served with dipping sauces like remoulade, catsup, ranch, blue cheese, cheddar dip or whatever you like.

Directions

Lather cold bacon strips in buttermilk or whipping cream
Cover the strips with cornmeal flour
Drop into hot oil in a pan or deep fryer
Enjoy

Pineapple Bacon

This one is easy. If you like pineapple with your pork, this shall satisfy your cravings

Directions

Mix pineapple, honey, sugar, salt with blender or robocoupe
Glaze bacon and bake in oven
Add pineapple chunks to finished product

Garlic Bacon

Garlic bacon is a great gormet style bacon entree

Directions

Sprinkle bacon strips with garlic powder or garlic salt and cool for a couple hours or so
Add minced garlic cloves to bacon while frying or baking
When finished, lightly glaze with butter

Chocolate-covered bacon

Chocolate-covered bacon is a delicious snack and desert

Directions

Combine chocolate chip morsels, tsp or so of vanilla extract, dark corn syrup in double boiler
Bring to boil, stirring constantly until contents melt
Add cooked bacon strips or chopped bacon
remove with tongs (strips) or spoon (chopped chunks), place onto wax paper
Chill in fridge (optional)

Peppered bacon

This is the simplest bacon concoction out there.

Directions

Halfway through cooking, sprinkle pepper and peppercorns onto bacon

Flamin' Hot Bacon

Flamin' hot bacon is a spicy bacon that would attract spicy food lovers

Directions

Mix chopped jalapeno peppers, black pepper, red pepper flakes, honey and hot sauce or tobasco in blender or robcoupe
Glaze bacon with mixture
Fry or bake (preferably bake to avoid pan mess)

Nacho Cheese Bacon

Nacho cheese bacon is the perfect snack for someone with the "munchies".

Directions

After cooking bacon, pour hot nacho cheese sauce atop strips
(Optional) Add lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole, sour cream and salsa
(Optional) Add nacho chips, or tortilla/pita

Pizza Bacon Pita

This is a very unique style of food that will impress any bacon lover

Directions

Smear round pita bread with marinara sauce
Add cooked bacon to pita and sauce
Add any desired additional toppings
Sprinkle mozzarella and cheddar cheese on top
Bake in oven for 5 to 10 minutes

Bacon Mac

Bacon with macaroni and cheese is another excellent entree that children and adults will savor and come back asking for more

Directions

Chop cooked bacon
Add to macaroni and cheese and mix together

Bacon poppers

Bacon poppers are a delicious and unique appetizer to add to any palette.

Directions

Wrap single strips of bacon around scoops of sour cream or cream cheese with (optional) jalapeno buried within
You can also cover the scoop of sour cream or cream cheese with chopped bacon
place the scoops on wax paper, or put in muffin tray
Cover balls with cornmeal flour
freeze
deep fry, or pan fry with hot oil

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