Alton Brown's hack for eating praline bacon candy for breakfast: Thick-sliced bacon coated in a sweet crust of brown sugar & toasted pecans.

Course: Breakfast

Keyword: Breakfast, Brunch, Hacks, Pork, Praline Bacon

Praline Bacon

Name: Praline Bacon
Prep time: 12 min
Total time: 67 min
Ingredients: 1 pound thick-cut bacon; 6 tablespoons light brown sugar; 1 1/2 ounces pecan halves

Praline bacon slices on a wire cooling rack.

ACTIVE TIME: 12

TOTAL TIME: 1 7

Yield: 4 to 6 servings

Thick slices of bacon coated in a crunchy crust of sweet brown sugar. That's right: It's bacon candy.

If you need a reason to make sugar-coated breakfast meat... you don't need no stinkin' reason.

This recipe first appeared in Season 13 of Good Eats.

Photo by Lynne Calamia

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Software

1 pound thick-cut bacon
6 tablespoons light brown sugar
1 1/2 ounces pecan halves

Specialized Hardware

Food processor

ACTIVE TIME: 12

TOTAL TIME: 1 7

Yield: 4 to 6 servings

Procedure

Heat oven to 400ºF.
Line a half-sheet pan with aluminum foil. Arrange the bacon in a single layer on a wire rack, and set it in the prepared sheet pan. Bake until the bacon browns and the fat is rendered and bubbly, 30 to 35 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through baking.
Meanwhile, combine the brown sugar and pecans in a small food processor. Pulse until the pecans are finely chopped, about 15 pulses.
Remove the bacon from the oven, sprinkle with the brown sugar mixture, and pat down to adhere. Return to the oven a bake until the bacon is crisp, about 10 minutes.
Cool on the rack for 10 minutes before serving.