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Bacon Wrapped Chicken Recipe
Easy to make and insanely scrumptious. This baked Bacon Wrapped Chicken is meals euphoria. As a result of everyone knows bacon makes every thing higher. So if you flippantly season the chicken, wrap it in bacon, mud it with brown sugar then bake it to golden caramelised perfection, it takes that primary rule to a degree you received’t consider.
That is ridiculously good. There are merely no phrases!
Bacon Wrapped Chicken
I apologise upfront to anybody who’s attempting to “be wholesome” this week as a result of chances are high, your good intentions shall be thrown out the window if you see this Bacon Wrapped Chicken!!!
Everyone knows that bacon makes (virtually) every thing higher….I imply, what a method to costume up a humble piece of chicken…
Significantly. Have you learnt any non-vegetarians who would flip down juicy chicken wrapped in beautiful caramelised bacon???
No kitchen string.
No toothpicks.
Nothing fancy about this Bacon Wrapped Chicken in any respect. Merely coat the chicken in a easy seasoning (it actually takes this to a different degree!), roll it up in bacon, mud with brown sugar and bake.
That’s it!
I bake it in a sizzling oven to get the bacon as caramelised as doable with out overcooking the chicken. However if you would like the bacon much more golden, simply crank up the broiler/grill after it finishes baking. The brown sugar on the bacon will make it brown actually shortly.
Then brush the juicy pan juices on the bacon to make it gorgeously shiny. Brush, brush, brush….don’t waste all that free flavour!!
Meals like that is what I’m all about. Simply the suitable mixture of some easy components to make one thing actually unbelievable.
It’s the brown sugar that makes all of the distinction. The dusting of brown sugar on the bacon makes it superbly caramelised, and creates further pan juices which you can brush onto the chicken to make it shiny.
And since I hate losing free flavour, I scrape the tray clear to drizzle each little bit of flavour I can onto the chicken.
Serve it on mashed potato to take in these further juices.
Seem like a champ at time for supper.
With SUCH LITTLE EFFORT.
Howdy there, Mr Bacon Wrapped Chicken. You must get in my tummy. Proper now!
Ingredients
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper (or sub with more paprika)
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Black pepper
- 4 large chicken thigh fillets (about 5oz / 150g each), cut in half (Note 1)
- 8 pieces bacon , streaky (Note 2)
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp olive oil (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200C/390F (fan forced / convection) (Note 3)
- Line tray with baking paper.
- Combine Seasoning in a small bowl. Place brown sugar in a separate bowl.
- Coat chicken in Seasoning, shaking off excess. Place on one end of bacon and roll up, finishing with the seam side down. Repeat with remaining chicken.
- Coat chicken in sugar – use your fingers to rub it on if required. Place on baking tray.
- Drizzle with olive oil (helps make it brown faster, optional)
- Bake for 25 minutes. If the bacon is not golden enough for your taste, switch on the broiler for a few minutes.
- Brush the juices on the tray onto the bacon to make it glossy and juicy. Serve on mashed potatoes, drizzled with extra pan juices if desired!
Notes
1. This can be made with chicken breast, but I prefer using chicken thighs because they are juicier!
2. Use long strips of streaky bacon i.e. strips of bacon with streaks of fat. They need to be around 25cm / 10″ long or longer so they can wrap a few times around the chicken. I am in Australia and I use Middle Bacon and cut the eye off (the round bit at the end) and just use the long streaky party.
3. If your oven is not fan forced / convection (i.e. no fan inside your oven), increase the temp to 220C/ 430F. If your oven does not go that high, that’s ok, you will probably just need to broil a bit at the end to make the bacon golden!
4. Extra Notes – You won’t use all the brown sugar. The amount I use assumes you use a bowl to dip the chicken in, but you could just scoop brown sugar onto the chicken and rub it in. You’ll probably use around 1 1/2 tbsp all up. Also, the amount of pan juices you end up with depends on the juiciness / fattiness of the chicken & bacon you use. Even if you use lean chicken (e.g. breast) and bacon, this is still delicious, it is just that you won’t have as much pan juices to brush onto the chicken at the end to make it really glossy like what you see in the photos. 🙂
5. Nutrition per serving, 2 pieces per person. It is quite over because a lot of the calories is due to the bacon but most of the fat is rendered out (melts) and remains on the tray. I can’t estimate how much fat is not consumed so I have erred on the conservative side.
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