Recipe Vanilla Bean "Pig Candy"

[ElizabethB]

My family loves "Pig Candy". I added vanilla beans for a twist. Wonderful.

Ingredients:

1 lb. thick cut, apple wood smoke cured bacon
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
*1/4 cup crushed pecans
Seeds from 1 vanilla bean

Method:

Heat oven to 350 degrees F
Line a rimmed sheet pan with foil (ease of cleaning)
Use a rack in the pan
Crumple a sheet of foil
Uncrumple foil leaving peaks and valleys - for draining
Cut Bacon strips in thirds - or quarters
Slice vanilla bean lengthwise
Scrape out the seeds
**Reserve the pod
Combine sugar, pecans and vanilla seeds
Roll pieces of bacon in mixture
Place on rack
Cook 15 minutes
Turn bacon
Cook another 15 minutes - until bacon is crisp
Transfer to The crumpled foil to drain
Cool to room temperature - devour or freeze - or make lots so you can do both

*Walnuts can be used. I prefer pecans - more natural oil and a nice woody flavor
**Fill a pint jar with white sugar. Insert the reserved vanilla pod = vanilla sugar

Note: I never make 1 batch - my family devours this stuff.

photo later

 

[GadgetGuy]

My family loves "Pig Candy". I added vanilla beans for a twist. Wonderful.

Ingredients:

1 lb. thick cut, apple wood smoke cured bacon
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
*1/4 cup crushed pecans
Seeds from 1 vanilla bean

Method:

Heat oven to 350 degrees F
Line a rimmed sheet pan with foil (ease of cleaning)
Use a rack in the pan
Crumple a sheet of foil
Uncrumple foil leaving peaks and valleys - for draining
Cut Bacon strips in thirds - or quarters
Slice vanilla bean lengthwise
Scrape out the seeds
**Reserve the pod
Combine sugar, pecans and vanilla seeds
Roll pieces of bacon in mixture
Place on rack
Cook 15 minutes
Turn bacon
Cook another 15 minutes - until bacon is crisp
Transfer to The crumpled foil to drain
Cool to room temperature - devour or freeze - or make lots so you can do both

*Walnuts can be used. I prefer pecans - more natural oil and a nice woody flavor
**Fill a pint jar with white sugar. Insert the reserved vanilla pod = vanilla sugar

Note: I never make 1 batch - my family devours this stuff.

photo later

I think that I've heard of this before!

 

[Frizz1974]

That would disappear in a flash here.

Yum.

 

[GadgetGuy]

I would like to do THIS again. Scallops wrapped in bacon!

 

[ElizabethB]

@Shermie - would you incorporate vanilla?

 

[Morning Glory]

I've not come across 'Pig Candy' before. What does the bacon look like - I am asking because I know bacon in the US can be rather different that bacon here. Is it what we here would call back bacon?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_bacon

 

[The Late Night Gourmet]

I'm fairly certain she means the type of bacon @Shermie pictured above...this is what we think of when someone in the States say bacon.

By the way, these flavors are a milk product short of being like praline...a very Looziana of you!

 

[ElizabethB]

@morning glory ,

@The Late Night Gourmet is correct - what you see in @Shermie photo. I will post pics later.

By the way, these flavors are a milk product short of being like praline...a very Looziana of you!

Did you expect anything less? What my family and friends love are the combination of smoky, salty, woody and sweet - the vanilla bean kicks it up to heavenly.