Candied Bacon With Goat Cheese
"This appetizer comes from the forthcoming "Cooking the Cowboy Way: Recipes Inspired by Campfires, Chuck Wagons and Ranch Kitchens" by Grady Spears with June Naylor."
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
20
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup dark brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon fresh coarse ground black pepper
- 20 slices good-quality thick-cut thick slab bacon
- 1⁄2 cup goat cheese, at room temperature
directions
- In a medium bowl, combine the sugars with the pepper, mixing until well blended. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper or quick-release foil (regular foil works just as well) and spread the sugar mixture over the sheets. Press one strip of bacon at a time into the sugar mixture, then flip it over to coat the other side. Place the bacon strips side by side on the sugar as you finish, to form a single layer in the pan.
- Repeat with the remaining bacon on the other cookie sheet. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Place the cookie sheets in the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the bacon is darkened and cooked through. Remove sheets from oven and let cool for 5 to 7 minutes.
- Once the bacon has cooled and hardened, cut the strips in half and top each with a dollop of goat cheese.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
gailanng
United States
I'm just me, mother, grandmother...friend to many and a Louisianian. My Cajun and French Quarter Italian descent afforded me exposure to some of the best of foods. My passions are my family, decorating, cooking and gardening. Those very passions push me into constant awareness with always looking for something new to delight the senses, thus my favorite idiom...Inspire me, puuuullllllleeeeeeease! ...and I mean it, too. God Bless America!
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