Maple Glazed Bacon Rashers with Sweetcorn & Buttermilk Fritters
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The new Food Lover’s American-style thick cut bacon rashers are also your new favourite brunch ingredients! Pete Goffe-Wood tried them, and he went all out on this recipe! Thick cut rashers glazed in maple-syrup, paired with the ultimate sweetcorn and buttermilk fritters (with a secret ingredient: Polenta!), and served with juicy roasted tomatoes.
Cooking Methods
- Pan-Fry
Serves
6Prep Time
15 minutesCooking Time
45 minutesIngredients
Maple Glazed Pork Bacon Rashers & Roasted Tomatoes
- 12 Food Lover’s American-style Thick Cut Bacon Rashers
- 100ml maple syrup
- 6 tomatoes
- 20g wild rocket
Sweetcorn & Buttermilk Fritters
- 180ml (¾ cup) flour
- 125ml (½ cup) polenta
- 2.5ml (½ tsp) baking powder
- 2.5ml (½ tsp) bicarbonate of soda
- 5ml (1 tsp) salt
- 5ml (1 tsp) sugar
- 310ml (1 ¼ cup) buttermilk
- 30ml (2 Tbsp) melted butter
- 1 egg, beaten
- 500ml (2 cups) cooked corn kernels
- ½ bunch chopped spring onions, sliced diagonally
Directions
Maple Glazed Pork Bacon & Roasted Tomatoes
- Heat the oven to 200°C.
- Place the rashers on a parchment-lined baking tray and place in the oven for approximately 10-15 minutes or until the fat begins to render and the pork begins to crisp.
- Remove the tray from the oven and brush the rashers with the maple syrup and put back in the oven for a further 5 minutes so that they can crisp and caramelise.
- Remove from the oven and place the rashers on a cooling rack to drain.
- Cut the tomatoes in half, season with salt and pepper and place on a separate baking tray or roasting pan, then place in a hot oven.
- This can be done at the same time as the rashers.
- The tomatoes should take the same amount of time as the pork.
- To assemble, place two sweet corn fritters on a plate, place a little rocket on top of the fritters, followed by two halves of tomato.
- Place two glazed bacon rashers on top of the tomatoes and serve. Alternatively, you could serve all together on a platter.
- A fried egg would make a good accompaniment.
- Put dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Put buttermilk, butter and egg together in another bowl and whisk.
- Add dry ingredients to wet.
- Purée 1 cup of the corn and add with the rest of the corn to the batter.
- Thin mixture with a little buttermilk if necessary.
- Heat a cast iron frying pan and add a little oil
- Spoon in some mixture into the hot pan – be careful as it does spread – you need enough mixture to make a fritter the size of a coaster.
- You will serve two fritters per portion.
- When the mixture begins to bubble and firm around the edges, flip the fritters over with a spatula or egg lifter. Cook until golden brown and firm.
Sweetcorn & Buttermilk Fritters
Notes
What if I don’t have buttermilk?
See our top kitchen hacks! You can make your own buttermilk with milk and vinegar or lemon juice.
Where can I find more of Pete Goffe-Wood’s recipes?
Pete knows meat! So if you’re looking for delicious meat recipes, try some of these.