Homemade Bacon Salt, the Best Idea Ever for Bacon!
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Just a short post but this is so worth knowing about!
I made something simply marvellous the other day, hopefully you will be as delighted with this as I am!
Clearing out the fridge preparatory to filling it up again I found I had one single sad rasher of bacon left so I suddenly made …
Bacon Salt
Ta Da!
1 rasher bacon
1 tsp crunchy sea salt
~ Preheat the oven to 375ºF/190ºC/170ºC fan/gas 5 or so.
~ Cook the bacon till it seems to have gone too far and looks yukky, like this …
~ Pat off any fat and let it cool and harden.
~ Break into pieces and crush together with the salt in a pestle and mortar.
~ Store in a sealed jar in the fridge and sprinkle willy nilly on all sorts of things.
Today I had bacon salt sprinkled over Brie and caramelised onion marmalade on nubbly toast for lunch, comme ça …
Yesterday I sprinkled bacon salt on poached freshly laid eggs (see here for the easiest and best way to poach eggs) …
Tonight I plan on eating it with cod. What do you fancy it on?
I have never made this before but am delighted with it; so much yumminess for so little effort and hardly any money, I shall certainly keep some by for the rest of my life!
Creative Ways to Use Up Leftovers
This is just one of 35 ideas for leftover bacon included in my book on leftovers ~ don’t you wonder what other ideas I have for bacon and the other 449 potential leftovers?
Suzy Bowler
Having been a somewhat itinerant chef for over 30 years I was amazed, on my return to the UK, at the blatant food waste that now seems to be rife in the country; amazed and irritated. So much so that I decided to start a blog about spontaneous cooking from leftovers to show people that there are great alternatives to throwing food away.
3 Comments
Sara
Awesome idea! Love this! 🙂
DEBS
brilliant idea!
M and N
Would be lovely on a salad as well – that is a great way to use up bacon…