Candied bacon ice cream
Anyone that has ever melted milk chocolate over salty popcorn, knows that sweet and savoury is a winning combination. This recipe may be little unorthodox, but we promise it’s worth the risk.
If you’re up for something a little different (or maybe some ice cream for breakfast) why not give it a go?
Ingredients:
- 2 smoked bacon rashers
- 600ml cream
- 1 cup milk
- 100g caster sugar
- 4 egg yolks
- pinch salt
- ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika
For the candied bacon
- 4 smoked bacon rashers, grilled
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup maple syrup
- Honeycomb to serve
Method:
- Preheat oven to 160°C.
- Cut the rashers of smoked bacon in half and place bacon in a deep heavy based saucepan.
- Whisk together the cream, milk and caster sugar and pour over the bacon.
- Heat the saucepan over a low heat being careful not to boil the milk approximately 5 minutes.
- Allow the mixture to cool slightly and remove the bacon pieces
- Remove half a cup of the cream mixture and whisk together with the egg yolks. Salt and paprika.
- Return the mixture to the saucepan and heat stirring constantly until mixture has thickened and coats the back of the spoon.
- Remove the custard from the saucepan and cool in a bowl. Return the bacon to the bowl and cover with a piece of baking paper to prevent a skin forming. Cool in the refrigerator 20 minutes. Whilst custard is cooling, prepare the candied bacon.
- Place the grilled bacon on a tray lined with baking paper and pour the combined sugar and maple syrup. Coat the bacon well with the mixture.
- Place the tray in the pre-heated oven until bacon is caramelised, this should take approximately 15 minutes. Remove and place bacon on a wire rack to cool.
- Remove the custard from the refrigerator and remove the bacon pieces and discard. Turn ice cream churn on, slowly pour the ice cream into the ice-cream machine. Finely chop 2 of the candied bacon rashers into very small pieces and add the bacon to the ice cream and churn for 20 minutes.
- Remove the ice cream from the churn and place in an airtight container freeze for 12 hours prior to serving.
- Serve scoops of bacon ice cream with a shard of candied bacon and top with chopped honeycomb.
Are you daring enough to try this kooky combination? Let us know in the comments below.
Recipe courtesy of Australian Pork.
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