Cowboy Bacon
This cowboy bacon is a spicy candied meat treat with a texture somewhere between crispy and chewy. Fully caramelized with a brown sugar-barbecue sauce glaze, this will be the most talked-about snack at your party.
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Cover a sheet pan with foil and place a baking rack on top. Place bacon strips on the rack, evenly spaced.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Turn bacon over and bake for 10 minutes more.
- Meanwhile, for glaze, stir brown sugar, barbecue sauce, rice vinegar, black pepper, and garlic powder together in a small bowl.
- Remove bacon from the oven, brush with glaze, and bake 7 minutes more.
- Remove from the oven, turn bacon over, brush with glaze, and bake 7 minutes more. Remove from the oven, turn bacon over, and bake 10 minutes more.
- Remove from the oven and flip bacon over.
- Brush bacon with glaze, and bake for 10 minutes more. Remove and brush with glaze. Place pepper rings evenly on top of bacon strips; bake for 10 minutes more. Remove and brush with remaining glaze.
- Place back in the oven and cook until bacon is fully rendered and browned, and pepper rings are tender, about 7 minutes more.
- Transfer bacon to a piece of parchment paper and let cool completely before serving. Strips can be cut in half crosswise to serve.
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