Bacon Wrapped Breadsticks

"These are truly awesome and a cinch to make. Having enough on hand may be a problem cause people eat a lot of them."
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
4
Yields:
40-50 breadsticks
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ingredients

  • 1 cup packed dark brown sugar (spread out on a tray and allowed to dry for 1-2 hours before using)
  • 1 tablespoon chili seasoning mix
  • 2 lbs bacon (very thinly sliced)
  • 40 -50 breadsticks (grissini)
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directions

  • After the brown sugar has air-dried a bit, add the chili seasoning and mix with fingers to blend well.
  • Take a bacon rasher and dip it into the sugar, pressing sugar in lightly on both sides.
  • Wrap, barber-pole style around a breadstick and place on a greased (I use olive oil) baking pan or cookie sheet.
  • Repeat with as many bacon rashers as you have left.
  • Preheat oven to 400F.
  • Roast until bacon is cooked and you can see sugar has caramelized- make sure it's cooked and not burnt- about 8-10 minutes.
  • Remove from oven and CAREFULLY pick up breadstick and place on a large platter to harden (the breadsticks will be soft at this point but will harden as they cool).
  • This must be done immediately, otherwise the caramelized sugar will set and it will be impossible to get your breadsticks out of the pan.

Questions & Replies

  1. Can these be made a day ahead? Like Friday night for a brunch on Saturday?
     
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Reviews

  1. Great appetizer! Serve these at a cookie exchange evening and I only had 6 left for my husband to sample when he got home. (He said they were even good reheated!!) I used chili powder instead of chili seasoning and the flavour combination was great. I think next time I will buy thin sliced bacon as some of my pieces were quite thick and did not wrap easily around the breadsticks. Will make again-thanks!
     
  2. I made these twice - once with the thin grissini bread sticks and once with thicker sticks. The grissini breadsticks did not get crunchy again after cooling, but the thicker ones did and they were really good.
     
  3. I love this recipe!! I used a little cayenne instead of the chili powder (just preference) and cut the bacon in half the long way. It wrapped around much easier and also let the bacon stretch even further. Fantastic - a must make!!
     
  4. This is the exact recipe my Mom makes. Very good appetizer. Thank you for posting!
     
  5. The chili and sugar works well together. Be careful not to burn the bottoms!
     
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Tweaks

  1. I love this recipe!! I used a little cayenne instead of the chili powder (just preference) and cut the bacon in half the long way. It wrapped around much easier and also let the bacon stretch even further. Fantastic - a must make!!
     
  2. Great appetizer! Serve these at a cookie exchange evening and I only had 6 left for my husband to sample when he got home. (He said they were even good reheated!!) I used chili powder instead of chili seasoning and the flavour combination was great. I think next time I will buy thin sliced bacon as some of my pieces were quite thick and did not wrap easily around the breadsticks. Will make again-thanks!
     

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<style>body { background: url("http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/3512121819_f2f1aaf050.jpg?v=0"); background-repeat: repeat-y; }</style> OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages! I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure. So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call. What did I do wrong? Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths. I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time. That's all for now.
 
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