The Best Maple Glazed Bacon Recipe (2 Ingredients!)
If you’re looking for a SUPER EASY way to make a weekend breakfast feel special, look no further than this simple maple bacon! All you need is bacon and maple syrup. It’s perfectly salty and sweet and goes well with literally ANY breakfast.
Is there a more perfect combination than maple syrup and bacon? Hardly, in my very humble opinion. It’s right up there with peanut butter and jelly.
As I’m thinking about this more, I am realizing that I really need to make more recipes with this maple bacon! Salty bacon, sweet maple flavor, gah it’s so good! I’ve already made this amazing chipotle bacon and I’m thinking of so many more possibilities right now so stay tuned. 🙂 For now, let’s make this!
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What’s in maple bacon?
I’m not even going to bother listing these ingredients out–literally all you need is some good bacon and maple syrup! It’s that simple. I just recommend using real maple syrup for the best flavor and purity’s sake.
My favorite bacon is Trader Joe’s brand but I also really like the 365 brand if I can’t make it to TJ’s! I prefer a thin cut rather than thick cut bacon because it gets crispier when cooked. Also, both brands don’t have any added sodium nitrate which I really try to avoid!
Don’t have maple syrup?
If you don’t have any syrup, but you still want a sweet and salty bacon experience, you can use brown sugar instead. Dark brown sugar or light work fine. Just rub each piece of bacon with brown sugar in an even coat and bake in the same manner or you can just place directly on a baking sheet lined with parchment.
How to make this maple bacon recipe
If you haven’t gotten on the making bacon in the oven bandwagon–you need to. I’m usually not that bossy, but you really need to. It’s so much cleaner, tastier, easier, and more consistent. I love it!
There are those who use a wire rack over a rimmed baking sheet to cook their bacon in the oven and there are those who do not. I am usually one of the ones that doesn’t like dirtying an extra dish but when I make maple bacon, I do use a wire rack.
When I make regular bacon or even chipotle bacon, I just lay the bacon strips on a parchment-lined baking sheet and then once I remove them from the oven, I place the bacon on a paper towel-lined plate or baking sheet to absorb excess grease. But with the maple syrup being thin and needing to really glaze and stick to the bacon, it works better this way.
To make it, simply line a baking sheet with parchment, then place the wire rack on top. The parchment paper just ensures easy clean up! Arrange bacon strips on the wire rack, then use a pastry brush to brush both sides of the bacon with syrup.
Bake in a 425F oven for 10-15 minutes. Just check on the bacon at 15 minutes and reduce or increase the cooking time if needed to reach the perfectly crisp bacon we need.
Transfer the cooked bacon to a baking sheet lined with paper towels to remove excess grease, if desired. Cooking on the wire rack allows most of the grease to drip away but I still like to remove extra grease this way.
What to pair it with
I meant it earlier when I said you can pair this with ANY breakfast. Try it alongside my southwest breakfast bowls, blueberry lemon pancakes or feta fried eggs to start. 🙂 It’s amazing with French toast and just a simple plate of eggs and toast. This is an easy recipe that really makes a breakfast spread feel fancy. If you’re in a lunch mood, try this bacon on an Avocado BLT! It’s guaranteed to be a huge hit!
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Maple Bacon
Looking up for a SUPER EASY way to make a weekend breakfast feel special–look no further than this maple bacon! All you need is bacon and maple syrup. It’s perfectly salty and sweet and goes well with literally ANY breakfast.
- Prep Time: 5
- Cook Time: 15
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 12-14 strips of bacon
- Category: breakfast
- Diet: Gluten Free
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place a wire cooling rack over it.
- Arrange strips of bacon in an even layer and brush both sides of bacon with maple syrup.
- Bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes, until bacon is browned.
- Transfer bacon strips to a paper towel lined plate or baking sheet to remove extra grease.
- Enjoy!
