Friday, August 19, 2011

YUMMY Chicken bites=Pinterest recipe #2

Ingredients:
1 pound boneless chicken breasts
20 thin bacon slices
3 tbsp honey
2 tsp coarse mustard
fresh lemon juice
Optional: salt
Directions:
Cut the chicken breasts—or fillets, as we call them here—in thin strips. Not too thin, the bacon has to brown and if the chicken is too thin it’ll get dry before the bacon gets crispy. That would be a sin.
Chicken & Bacon Bites
Note:
I’m using the Dutch equivalent to bacon in this recipe. It’s called Ontbijtspek and is saltier than regular bacon. You can sprinkle some salt (and/or pepper) on the chicken strips, if you like.
Grab a bowl and combine 3 tbsp honey with 2 tsp coarse mustard.
Chicken & Bacon Bites
Squeeze in some lemon juice. Not too much, about a tbsp or so. I think orange juice will be great, too.
Chicken & Bacon Bites
Bacon rights all the wrongs in this world. It brings justice to all the injustices. Or something like that.
Chicken & Bacon Bites
I asked my favorite pair of extra hands to wrap the bacon around the chicken strips.
Chicken & Bacon Bites
Place them in a roasting tray or on a cookie sheet. If you’re afraid of cleaning up, line the tray or sheet with some tin-foil first. I’m hard-core (And own a dish washing machine. It helps).
Chicken & Bacon Bites
Brush the chicken bites with half the marinade.
Chicken & Bacon Bites
Bake them in a preheated oven at 425F (225C) for 10 to 13 minutes. Until the bacon is crispy.
As soon as one side is done, take the tray out of the oven. Does this look good or what? I could never be a vegetarian simply because I cannot forsake bacon. I absolutely love it, in an artery clogging kind of way!
Chicken & Bacon Bites
Flip them over and brush them with the remaining marinade.
Chicken & Bacon Bites
Put them back in the oven for another 10 to 13 minutes, until the other side is crispy as well. Keep an eye on them.
Don’t these just scream: love me, bite me, chew me, eat me, devour me? If I can give you a tip, a really useful one at it, it would be to fix twice the amount you think you’ll need. And then some.

1 comment:

  1. I have made these from pinterest too! Brooks loved them, and that honey mustard is awesome!,

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