Printable Recipe: Cracked Pepper and Brown Sugar Oven-Roasted Bacon Recipe

Cracked Pepper & Brown Sugar Oven-Roasted Bacon Recipe

This is the star dish of brunch menus. You can make this sweet, spicy, crisp bacon recipe in the upper rack of the oven while your ham and egg tarts bake on the lower. If you've never tried a recipe for oven-cooked bacon, now's the time to start. It comes out crisp, cleanly-shaped (no rolled up bacon "balls"), and absolutely delicious. Be sure to use a rimmed jelly roll pan unless you want bacon fat to drip and fill your whole house with nasty fat-smoke. Serves 6-8 people.

Ingredients:
1 lb. lean bacon, sliced
1 tsp. fresh cracked black pepper
2 tsp. brown sugar

Instructions: Preheat the oven to 400 F. Line a jelly roll pan with parchment paper.

Arrange bacon slices on parchment paper. Sprinkle with pepper and brown sugar.

Bake about 10 minutes. Lots of fat will collect during this time-- drain that now.

Return bacon to oven and bake a few minutes more, until it has reached your desired level of crispness.

Remove from oven and immediate transfer bacon slices onto paper towels.

Note: This is also wonderful made without the sugar and pepper-- when I want to make plain bacon, I always do it this way. It comes out perfect every time!