What is Beef Bacon?
Beef Bacon is a delicious, flavorful, salty-sweet specialty cut that can be used to augment everything from breakfast to salad to burgers to desserts – or enjoyed on its own.
How do I cook it?
Because it is slightly sweet and very rich, the key is to cook it over low heat initially to encourage the fat to render out without burning the delicious strips of meat.
Basic Cooking Method: for 1-4 servings
1. Lay strips in a large skillet (cold). They can be touching, since once the fat renders out, there will actually be a lot of room in between the pieces. Set pan over low heat until fat starts to render. If you have a splatter guard, use it — beef bacon can sputter a bit as it cooks, which can be both painful and messy.
2. Increase heat to medium and continue to cook, turning occasionally, until most of the fat has rendered and the bacon is starting to crisp up.
3. Once edges are dark (but not burned), transfer bacon to a paper towel-lined plate. Beef bacon strips will crisp up as they cool. Serve whole, or crumble once cool. Be ever vigilant for hands that may suddenly appear out of nowhere and cause these crispy morsels to disappear!
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Basic Cooking Method: for a crowd
If you’re looking to serve larger quantities, save yourself the time standing at the stove and bake in the oven.
1. Preheat oven to 400F.
2. Set a wire rack over a baking sheet (line with foil for easier clean up, if you like). Lay strips of Beef Bacon on the rack – strips can be touching, but not overlap since you’ll want the hot air reaching all sides of them to help them crisp up.
3. Bake at 400F until edges and centers are crispy and golden.
4. Remove from oven carefully as lower pan will be full of rendered fat. Don’t just discard – this flavorful shmaltz can be used for roasting vegetables, poultry or in our Spinach Salad with Beef Bacon-Maple Vinaigrette!
To save the fat, put a sieve or some cheese cloth over a wide-mouth clean jar, and pour fat carefully. Can be stored, tightly sealed, in the fridge for several weeks.
How can I use it in recipes?
Other than it being a different (ie, kosher) animal, Beef Bacon follows the same process as its more famous non-kosher counterpart. The plate or belly of the animal, a very well-marbled cut, is brined, cured and smoked then chilled and sliced. The resulting product is then ready to be fried, baked or wrapped around other foods.
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Kosher Beef Bacon Recipes
Check out 6 recipes that show you how to infuse your food with the delicious flavor of beef bacon.
How do you like to use kosher bacon in your recipes?
If you’re making bacon for a crowd, or just prefer to keep your stovetop clear, cook your bacon in the oven. Set a rack inside a baking sheet. Lay strips of bacon over the rack. Pieces can be touching. Bake at 350°F for 3-5 minutes. Remove from oven, flip strips, and return to oven to continue cooking, 2-4 more minutes. Transfer bacon to a paper towel-lined plate to crisp cool.
Approximately how long do you bake it?
Kosher beef slices are actually delicious – for those who do not eat pork, you’ll enjoy this form of ‘bacon’; for those who never ate pork of any kind, you won’t know the difference – other than knowing it’s not ‘real’ bacon – which gets you to think about pork.
I like both – but pork bacon is more readily available where I live and shop.
BTW, beef bacon makes excellent BLTs.
No, sorry, Grow and Behold is only in the US, some local butchers might make something similar though.
Is it sold in Israel?