Bacon, of course, is not a very healthy product for the human body. But, if consumed in moderation, nothing bad will of course happen. Sometimes even vegetarians allow themselves to eat a slice of bacon. To make this product as tasty as possible, experienced chefs advise to cook it not in a pan, but in the oven.
You can bake bacon in the oven with cheese, vegetables, sausages, or even pasta. But in any case, such meat should not be placed too tightly on a baking sheet. There should be some free space between the bacon pieces. Otherwise, the meat will turn out to be too fatty and tasteless.
Bacon with potatoes
This dish can be prepared for lunch or dinner. Baking bacon in the oven with potatoes is easy. At the same time, the finished dish turns out to be fragrant, tasty and looks very appetizing.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 8 pcs;
- raw smoked bacon - 100-200 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- salt - 1 tsp;
- some ground black pepper.
To bake bacon using this technology, the oven must be preheated to the standard 180 ° C.
Cooking technology
Wash the potatoes for this dish and cook in a peel until tender. Next, cool and peel the tubers. Cut boiled potatoes in half, sprinkle with pepper and salt.
Cut the cheese into thin slices with a sharp knife. Divide the plates into small rectangles. Place cheese on each potato half. Cover the resulting "sandwiches" with the second halves of the potatoes.
Cut the bacon into thin strips. Wrap each potato in a strip like this. Fold the cheese and bacon potatoes into a parchment-lined dish or skillet. Place a thin slab of butter on top of the bacon for each potato.
Place the dish in the oven and bake the dish for half an hour. Once the bacon is browned, remove the baking dish from the oven. Arrange the potatoes with bacon on plates, sprinkle with herbs and serve.
Scrambled eggs in bacon
This dish looks very original and should definitely be prepared for the festive table as an appetizer.
Ingredients:
- bacon - 20 thin slices;
- eggs - 2-4 pcs;
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp / l;
- some caraway seeds and dill;
- salt, black pepper.
To prepare this dish, you need a special baking sheet with indentations, designed for baking pancakes and cutlets. If there is no such form at home, for cooking eggs in bacon, you will have to, among other things, purchase a few more small buns. They will need to be cut in half and made from them "molds" of the required configuration, choosing most of the crumb.
Recipe
Grease a baking sheet with olive oil and place a slice of bacon in each cavity so that the bottom and sides are covered. Wrap the buns as tightly as possible on the outside of the buns.
Place the baking sheet or bacon buns in a preheated oven to 200 ° C. Bake the "bowls" for 5-7 minutes until the meat is browned. Remove the dish from the oven.
Drive one egg into each baked bowl. Do this carefully so as not to damage the yolk. Then the cooked eggs in bacon will look more attractive.
Season the eggs with salt, pepper and sprinkle with some caraway seeds and finely chopped dill. Place the mold back in the oven for 10-15 minutes. When serving, pour over the baked bacon "cups" with fried eggs with ketchup.
Bacon rolls with mushroom filling
You can bake bacon rolls in the oven with chicken, minced meat, vegetables. But this dish will turn out to be the most delicious when used as a filling of mushrooms. The taste of such rolls is rich, and the aroma is simply incomparable.
Ingredients:
- fresh bacon - 500 g;
- mushrooms - 200-300 g;
- cheese (best hard) - 100 g;
- turnip onion - 1 head;
- mayonnaise, salt, pepper.
The oven for cooking such a dish is heated to 200 ° C.
Method of making rolls
Finely chop the onion and mushrooms. Fry the onions in sunflower oil in a skillet until beige. Add the mushrooms to the pan, pepper and salt them.
Fry the onion with mushrooms for about 10 minutes. Remove skillet from heat, transfer filling to bowl and refrigerate. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater, add to the mushrooms and mix everything thoroughly.
Cut the bacon slices into rectangles 12-15 cm long and 7-10 cm wide. Pepper and salt each piece. Add mayonnaise to the mushroom filling and mix everything well.
Place a small portion of the dressing on each bacon bite. Roll the records into rolls. If they will open, tie them with threads. Coat each roll prepared in this way with mayonnaise.
Spread the bacons on a baking sheet and bake in a well-preheated oven for about 35-40 minutes. These rolls are best served with potatoes and fresh cucumbers.
Chicken legs wrapped in bacon
This juicy, unusual, hearty and at the same time relatively inexpensive dish is perfect for both an ordinary family dinner and a festive table.
Ingredients:
- chicken drumstick - 6 pcs;
- bacon - 50-100 g;
- mustard - 1 tbsp / l;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- ground black pepper - ½ h / l;
- olive oil;
- salt - 1 tsp.
Before you start preparing the ingredients for cooking the legs in bacon, turn on the oven and preheat it to 180 ° C.
How to cook legs
Rinse chicken drumsticks and pat dry with napkins. Pour pepper and mustard into a deep bowl. Season the sauce with salt and mix well.
Brush each drumstick liberally with mustard marinade. Place the chicken in a bowl and marinate for 20 minutes.
Cut the bacon into strips of the desired width and length. Wrap the pickled drumsticks in strips. Arrange the legs in a small staggered shape and sprinkle with olive oil.
Peel the garlic and chop it finely. Sprinkle them on the legs and send the form to the oven for 20-40 minutes. Decorate the finished dish with herbs and vegetables and serve.
Baked pasta bacon recipe
Such a dish turns out to be very high in calories and can quickly satisfy your hunger. The ingredients in this case need to be prepared as follows:
- bacon - 250 g;
- some butter and olive;
- pasta - 500 g;
- onion - 2 heads;
- pickled tomatoes - 500 g;
- lavrushka - 2 pcs;
- garlic - 3 teeth;
- some pepper and salt;
- dill, parsley.
How to cook
Peel the onion and chop finely. Cut the bacon into thin slices. Fry the onions in butter until tender in a deep skillet. Add bacon slices to it and fry them on both sides for 5 minutes.
Place the peeled pickled tomatoes in the skillet. Season the dish with salt and pepper and put the bay leaf in it. Simmer for 25 minutes.
Pour dry pasta into a cup and pour over with olive oil. Mix the mixture thoroughly with your hands. Steam the pasta in a double boiler or colander over a saucepan.
Grease a baking dish with oil and add the stewed sauce. Place half cooked pasta on top. Chop greens and garlic and add to the mass.
Stir everything with a spatula. Place the dish in the oven preheated to 180-200 ° C and bake the dish until the pasta is fully cooked.
How to bake bacon under foil: a simple recipe
When using foil, such meat in the oven turns out to be very fragrant, soft and tender. In particular, such a dish will be delicious if white wine is added to the marinade during its preparation.
Ingredients:
- bacon - 1.5 kg;
- garlic - 4 teeth;
- wine - 70 ml;
- onion - 2 heads;
- thyme, paprika, ground pepper - ½ h / l each;
- marjoram - 1.5 tbsp / l;
- salt - 2 tsp.
Foil Bacon Recipe
Mix all prepared spices thoroughly in a small bowl. Wash the bacon, dry it and make cuts in it all over the area. Chop the garlic cloves into medium-sized pieces and chop the meat into them.
Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and place the bacon on top of it. Pour white wine over the meat. Cut the onion into thin half rings and sprinkle on the bacon.
Cover the baking sheet with meat on top, not too tightly with foil. Send the bacon to an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 1.5-2 hours. While baking, lift the foil and pour wine or water over the meat.
Perfect bacon in the oven without spices
Using a variety of spices can add flavor to the bacon. But such meat itself is distinguished by its simply excellent taste. Therefore, if you wish, you should try to cook such a product in the oven, using additionally only salt.
Ingredients:
- bacon - 0.5-1 kg;
- salt to taste.
Equipment and materials:
- aluminum foil;
- baking tongs;
- paper towels.
How to make the perfect bacon
Cover the baking sheet with foil and place in the oven. Turn on the oven and preheat it to 200 ° C. Cut the bacon into slices about 0.5 cm thick and salt.
Remove the preheated baking sheet from the oven. Spread the bacon slices on it so they don't overlap.
Place the baking sheet back in the oven and bake the meat for 15-20 minutes. Drain fat from the baking sheet as needed. It should not be completely bacon in it. Remove the cooked meat from the baking sheet with tongs and transfer to plates covered with paper towels.
Bacon with sausages: a classic recipe
This dish was once invented by German chefs. It is prepared quickly, looks very interesting and is usually served with beer.
Ingredients:
- boiled sausages - 10 pcs;
- bacon - 200 g;
- mustard, paprika, honey - 1 h / l each;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- lemon - 1 pc.
Cooking sausage bacon
Cut the bacon into long slices, place on a wire rack and bake in an oven preheated to 220 ° C for 3 minutes. Place a dripping pan under the wire shelf. Cut the boiled sausages into pieces according to the width of the slices.
After 3 min. Flip the bacon slices over to the other side. Bake them for another 3 minutes and remove from oven. Wrap the sausages with slices of bacon, securing the edges with toothpicks.
Place the meat and sausages on the same wire rack and place in the oven. Bake the dish for another 5 minutes. Then turn the sausages over to the other side and cook for another 5 minutes.
While the meat is cooking, make the sauce. To do this, squeeze lemon juice into a bowl and add honey and mustard to it. Pass the garlic under a press and also stir in the sauce.
Pour the paprika into the dressing last. Serve the sausages in bacon to the table, pouring sauce over them in a deep bowl.
Eggplant and cheese bacon
You should definitely try to prepare such a dish in the summer when vegetables are ripening. The ingredients for baking bacon for this recipe are as follows:
- eggplant - 1 medium;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs;
- cheese - 200 g;
- bacon - 100-150 g;
- dill, salt.
Step by step recipe
Wash the eggplant and cut into thin strips not to the end, starting from the top. As a result, you should end up with something like a fan. Season thoroughly with salt and pepper each cut.
The eggplant prepared in this way should lie down for 20 minutes. During this time, bitterness will go away from him. Wipe the juice from the eggplant with a paper towel. Next, place the vegetable on a baking sheet covered with foil and fan it out.
Cut the bacon and cheese into thin slices, and the tomatoes into thin rings, finely chop the dill. Place a plate of bacon, several rings of tomato, and a plate of cheese on each eggplant cut in turn.
Sprinkle the chopped dill on the eggplant slices and place the baking sheet in the oven. Bake the dish for 30-40 minutes. at a temperature of 200 ° C. If desired, sprinkle with finely chopped garlic and black pepper before cooking.
