Candied Bacon Brittle

Name: Candied Bacon Brittle
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 1 lb bacon (pastured, all natural preferred); 2-3 tbsp maple syrup (or honey); enough for sprinkling walnuts or pecans, optional

September 3, 2023 Andrea Wyckoff

You can seriously make friends with this recipe! I served my bacon brittle on the hor d’oeuvres table at a dinner party once, and word got out quickly all over town about how fabulous it was! I find maple syrup to work the best to “candy” the bacon, but honey will work okay too.

Ingredients

bacon (pastured, all natural preferred)		1 lb
maple syrup (or honey)		2-3 tbsp
walnuts or pecans, optional		enough for sprinkling

Directions:

Heat a skillet nice and hot, over medium to medium-high heat.
Pan-fry the bacon, pouring off the extra fat as it cooks. Save this fat for use in other recipes.
Once the bacon has reached a level of crispiness that you like, drain off any remaining fat, and drizzle in a little maple syrup.
The maple syrup will bubble a bit when it hits the hot pan. Just toss the bacon around in the syrup, then turn off the heat, and set the pan on a pot holder to cool for a few minutes.
You can add also chopped nuts if you want to make it a full-on “bacon brittle”. The sugar will firm up creating a candy coating once the bacon cools.

Recipe Notes:

*I have zero tolerance for any cane or refined sugar, except when it comes to bacon. Because the amounts of sugar used in the curing process are so minimal I have never had a bad reaction to it.