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

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. 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.
3. Sprinkle additional sugar mixture over bacon slices in pan.
4. Roast bacon until fat begins to render, about 6 minutes.
5. Rotate pan front-to-back and continue roasting until bacon is crisp and brown, about 8 to 10 minutes.
6. Remove from oven, cool and break or cut each bacon strip into 5 to 6 bite-size pieces.
7. 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