Bacon Jam Recipe

Ingredients

2.3 # of double smoked bacon
8 cloves of chopped garlic
2 sliced and chopped medium onions
6 tbsp of brown sugar
2 tsp of grounded cumin
1-4 fresh chillies chopped and de-seeded (It depends how spicy you like it to be. If not, just remove this from the recipe)
2 tsp of tabasco sauce (Adjust according to taste)
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup of maple syrup (Adjust according to taste)
1 cup expresso
1 tbsp shaved dark chocolate
Pepper to season
Water when necessary

Preparation

Step 1

If bacon are all sliced, then begin to render bacon strip by strip and cutting them into 1-2 inch portions
Add all chopped chillies, onions and garlic into the rendered bacon fat and cook them till the onions are translucent

Then add the cooked bacon, cumin, shaved dark chocolate, applecider vinegar,tabasco, maple syrup and coffee. Simmer uncovered on low for 2 – 3 hours.

Add 1/4 cup of water when it gets too dry. Add pepper to taste.

Allow it to cool before putting the mixture into a food processor

Just blitz it for 2-4 times depending how fine you want t
he jam to be. I prefer to be quite coarse

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