Shelly's Recipe

PRALINE BACON

Category: Breakfast and Brunch

3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup almond meal (or ground almonds, pecans or walnuts)
2 tsp dry mustard
1 tsp salt
12 slices thick cut or slab pepper encrusted bacon*

*If pepper bacon is not available, add two tbsp course ground black pepper to sugar mixture.

Preheat oven to 400. Combine all ingredients but bacon in a wide, shallow dish. Dip and press slice of bacon in sugar mixture on both sides. Lay bacon strips on a large, rimmed baking sheet. Sprinkle additional sugar mixture over the bacon slices in the pan. Roast the bacon until the fat begins to render, about 6 minutes. Rotate the pan front to back and continue roasting until the bacon is crisp and brown, about 8 to 10 minutes. Remove, cool and break or cut bacon into bite sized pieces. Serve warm or cold with cheese.