Make Bacon Jam from Scratch - a step-by-step Recipe
Bacon Jam is a great staple to have
In the fridge, bacon jam can be kept for up to four weeks, but if you make a large quantity, you store a few jars in the fridge and take them out as your stock in the fridge finishes up.
I always have a jar of bacon jam in the fridge. It’s a great addition to a toasted sandwich or braai broodjie, or you can serve it with a blue cheese on a harvest board. I recently spread some bacon jam on ready-made Pick n Pay mini sliders for a Valentine’s Day-inspired picnic. Whatever you do, you can’t go wrong when it comes to bacon jam.
Find the recipe below:
Ingredients to make Bacon Jam
1 packet of diced bacon
1 ½ cups of chopped onion
4 large cloves garlic, minced or 3 tbs garlic paste
1 cup brown sugar
¼ cup apple cider vinegar
¼ cup coffee (or 2 tbs whiskey)
Black pepper
How to Prepare Bacon Jam
Chop the bacon and cook until almost crisp, stirring often.
Drain all but ½ TBS or so of the bacon grease out.
Add in the onions and sauté for about 5 minutes.
Next, add in the garlic and sauté for 1-2 minutes, stirring the whole time.
Add in brown sugar, vinegar, ground pepper and coffee.
Stir and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
Cook for about an hour until done.
Once cooled, store in airtight jar in the fridge for up to 3 weeks.
No pork alternative: The recipe can easily be converted by using spiced beef or pastrami instead of bacon.
Enjoy! Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
To see how I made it, watch the reel below:
More Pork Recipes
Below the newsletter block, you will find some more pork recipes.
If you’re looking for a pork dish, I love making a Gammon Sausage Bake at Christmas time, when Pick n Pay stocks these festive gammon sausages. And for leftovers on Boxing Day, these Gammon Braai Broodjies are a winner! In summer, pork rashers on the braai are delicious and if you buy ready-made garlic rolls at Pick n Pay and make a yoghurt/mayo coleslaw, you just add some pork rashers and you’ll have a delicious but easy-to-make roll (find the recipe for the pork rasher roll here)!
If you love bacon, you should try my Beetroot Salad with Whipped Feta, Bacon , Roasted Olives and Toasted Pecan Nuts.
About Shawn Godfrey
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Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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After Christmas there are often many leftovers. Why not make a Gammon Braai Broodjie with your leftover gammon on boxing day?