How to cook bacon and remove excess fat
To prevent excess fat in a recipe using bacon, you can "blanch" it before use, leaving most of the fat in the pan with the water.
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Grade this recipe: Last modified on: February 21th 2011
For 200 g, you will need:
- 0
200 g small pieces of bacon - Total weight: 200 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 4 min. | 10 min. | 14 min. |
Keeping:
Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 2 min.
To do this, put bacon in a pan and cover with cold water.
Stage 2 - 10 min.
Bring to the boil on high heat.
Stage 3 - 2 min.
After boiling for one minute, strain and rinse under cold water (notice all the fat disappearing with the cooking water...).
Stage 4
Then use bacon as usual.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,152 Kcal or 4,823 Kj | 18 gr | 0 gr | 120 gr |
| 58 % | 7 % | 0 % | 18 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 576 Kcal or 2,412 Kj | 9 gr | 0 gr | 60 gr |
| 29 % | 3 % | 0 % | 9 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 200 g : 1.34 €
Note : These prices are only approximate.
Source
Home made.More recipes?
This recipe uses (among others) | Small pieces of bacon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Deep leek and potato quiche, Rabbit civet, Ramekins of duchess potatoes, Röstis, Quiche Lorraine, ... All |
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Your 4 comments or questions on this recipe
There is only a small part of fat in the water after blanching bacon, not enough to clog.