Recipe Girl's Oven Baked Maple Bacon Recipe (2024)
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This is one amazing bacon recipe! This is Oven Baked Bacon, flavored with a mixture of maple syrup and Dijon mustard and spiced with black pepper. This recipe is from my brand spanking new cookbook from Lori at Recipe Girl!
This is the BEST bacon I’ve ever tied. I don’t know how I’ve never thought of flavoring bacon and our world has been turned upside down!
The best part about my basket, is The Recipe Girl Cookbook. Lori is such an amazing chef and I’ve been following her for my entire blogging career. When I was starting out, as a blogger who didn’t know squat about blogging or photography, I started following a few great, established bloggers. Lori was one of the first food bloggers that I “fell in love with.” When I saw that she was releasing a cookbook, I couldn’t wait for the release date.
When I was getting my mail last week, I noticed the package with this cookbook. I got so excited that I even forgot to get the groceries from the car. I ran up the stairs and started flipping through the book. As I was sitting there, I got a creeping feeling that I was forgetting something. Ummm…yea…groceries! Luckily, I only got sidetracked for about ten minutes, but it still made me laugh. I hope you will be this excited when you get your signed copy from Lori in my giveaway!
I don’t own many cookbooks, just a few classics. I gotta say, Lori’s book will put them all to shame. It is such a well planned and organized book, I’ve been combing through it for days. She covers all the basics for stocking your kitchen: from pantry, to liquor cabinet, to kitchen tools. I absolutely love the little section in each recipe that shows you how to substitute or change up ingredients to play with flavors. Many recipes also have suggestions on making it gluten free or dairy free.
A few days ago, I was yet again looking through the book and husband noticed a bacon recipe. That man and his bacon…He noticed this bacon recipe from across the room! Of course, I had to make it first.
I thought it was such a great idea to mix maple syrup and Dion mustard and brush it on bacon while it’s cooking. I’m not proud to admit it, but we ate the entire package of that bacon that day. Not all at once, but all in one day! I have a feeling that we are going to feel this way about every recipe that I make from this cookbook!
Recipe Girl’s Oven Baked Maple Bacon Recipe
This is Oven Baked Bacon, flavored with a mixture of maple syrup and Dijon mustard and spiced with black pepper.
Preheat the oven to 400 and line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil, covering it entirely and up the sides. Place a rack in the baking sheet and lightly spray it with cooking spray.
Lay out bacon strips on top of the rack and cook it for about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk maple syrup and Dijon mustard together until combined.
After bacon has been cooking for 15 minutes, take it out and brush it with maple/Dijon glaze. Season bacon with some freshly ground black pepper.
Put bacon back in the oven for another 5-10 minutes until nice and crispy. (Cooking time will depend on the thickness of the bacon you are using.)
Take the bacon out of the oven and lay the strips out on a paper towel.
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Line a large baking sheet with aluminum foil, making sure the pan is completely covered. Check that the foil extends up the sides of the pan so it captures all the bacon grease and cleanup is easier. Arrange the bacon strips on the prepared baking sheet, or on the rack if you're using one.
Should the bacon be covered in the oven? No, you do not have to cover bacon in the oven. However, you can loosely position aluminum foil over the bacon if it is splattering. Just remove the foil in the last 5 minutes of cooking to make sure the bacon crisps.
The starch soaks up the grease from the bacon, helping it to stay rigid and maintain its shape. Overall, I would say the flour method is the best way to get the crispiest oven-baked bacon and I'll definitely be using this hack again.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.Lay the bacon on a sheet pan and bake for 15 to 20 minutes until the bacon is really crispy. Dry on paper towels and serve.
Is it better to bake bacon at 350 or 400? It's best to set the oven temperature to 400°F. At this temperature, the bacon should be crispy after about 20 minutes. A lower oven temperature (such as 350°F) will take longer; with a higher one (such as 450°F), you risk burning the bacon.
You can cook a few slices in a skillet or the microwave, but when cooking a big batch, the oven is the surefire way to go. This method is almost entirely hands-off and results in perfectly crispy, chewy, evenly-cooked bacon.
He also tested whether or not you'd get maximum flavor from your bacon by only baking it for 10 minutes at 365 degrees F (185 degrees C), as all of the tips suggest. It turns out that the water rinse isn't effective—it certainly helped, but claims that it'll keep shrinkage down by up to 50% are exaggerated.
The addition of water keeps the initial cooking temperature low and gentle, so the meat retains its moisture and stays tender as the fat renders. Plus, since the water helps render the fat, there will be significantly less splatter as your bacon finishes in the pan.
Brush uncooked bacon slices with a slurry of balsamic vinegar and maple syrup, brown sugar, or honey, place them on a rimmed, foil-lined tray in a 400°F oven, check every five minutes or two to see how things are faring, flip and baste as needed, and when the bacon is cooked and the glazed thickened, cool the bacon on ...
When sugar is added to bacon, it's almost always done to enhance flavor. It also works alongside salt to draw out some of the moisture during the curing process, acting as an additional antimicrobial preservative.
Bake the bacon in a 400°F oven until well-browned and crisp, this should take between 15 and 18 minutes depending on the thickness of your bacon. To follow Martha's method to a T, you'll need to rotate the sheet pan halfway through.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking pan with 3 layers of foil.
Arrange the bacon on the prepared baking pan in a single layer, then sprinkle evenly with the sugar and pepper. Bake until well browned, 35 to 40 minutes. Drain on paper towels and serve.
It's so incredibly simple! Just preheat oven to 375°F, and arrange your bacon on a slotted pan (like Rach's!) and bake to crisp for 15 to 18 minutes. (Again, if you don't have a slotted pan, Rach says you can make your own by putting a wire cooling rack on top of a baking sheet with a rim.)
Aluminum Foil with Oil: Good for Baking, Especially at Hotter Temperatures. Aluminum foil with oil is another good substitute for parchment paper. As with a greased baking sheet, the fat may subtly impact the way your food cooks.
Aluminum foil is a viable substitute for parchment paper too, but again, depends on your intended usage. Foil is basically a very thin piece of aluminum. It can be great for lining the dishes and pans you are cooking with so that cleanup is easier.
For roasting or baking savory foods, aluminum foil is a good alternative that allows for a simple clean-up. However, foil on its own is not nonstick, so a coating of nonstick spray or oil might be necessary to prevent your food from sticking.
Like I said, all you need to do is line a half sheet pan with aluminum foil then place your bacon strips on top in a single layer. You can cook one slice or a whole pack – it doesn't matter! The slices can touch but shouldn't overlap.
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