Maple Bacon Jam

Ingredients Tick them off

• 1- 360 g Baconpack, regular or thick
• 4 large Yellow oniononions of choice
• ½ cup Brown sugar
• ¼ cup Apple cider vinegar
• ½ tsp Black or White Pepper
• 1 tsp Onion powder
• 2 tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
• ¼ cup Maple syrup
• 2 tbsp Butter
• 3 Garlic cloveseach

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Method Tap a step to keep your place

1. Slow cooker on low for 2 hours, oven cooked on 275ºf for 2 hours.

2. Peel onions and chop in small chucks, cut bacon in small pieces. Start cooking the bacon in a frying pan with butter on a medium heat. Fry until bacon starts to brown off.

3. Then add onions, pepper and onion powder, stir continuously until the onions start to caramelize. “Keep the oil from the bacon for cooking onions and making the jam.” or take some off if you wish.

4. You will see the pan getting all of those brown charred marks and that means flavour.

5. Add balsamic vinegar and brown sugar and fold in. Top with chopped garlic and maple syrup to deglaze the pan. Getting all of those brown spots on the pan….

6. Then you can put all of the fried onions and bacon mixture in a slow cooker or oven save pan with lid. Slow cook for two hours before removing it from the pan and adding the mixture to small prepared mason jars.

7. See method and video link to prepare mason jars below.

8. This is for short term fridge storage only but you can seal them before. Date and label jars best up to 3 weeks.

Bonita’s Kitchen

1. Use you favourite onions and bacon to make this recipe, only use smoky bacon if that’s the kind you like.

2. Use extra balsamic vinegar if you don’t like maple syrup, up to 1/4 cup.

3. Delicious jam good for anything you like to have it with…burgers, bread, meat, chicken, Charcuterie board, the list go’s on…

4. See other caramelize recipe on our website…..