Egg N Bacon Dippers Recipes

Steps:

• First, make the bacon crumbs. Put the bacon in a dry frying pan and cook until really crisp. Transfer to a plate lined with kitchen paper, then pour all but a drizzle of oil out of the pan. Add the breadcrumbs, cook for a few mins until they turn golden and crisp, then tip these out too and leave to cool. Once the bacon is cool, put in a food processor and blitz to fine crumbs, add the breadcrumbs and give it another quick blitz to combine. Tip into a jar or tub and chill until ready to serve. Will keep for 2 days. Bring back to room temperature before eating.
• Bring a large pan of water to the boil and fill a large bowl with ice-cold water. Add the quail's eggs to the pan and cook for 2 mins, then fish out and plunge straight into the cold water. Repeat with the asparagus or broccoli, if using, cooking for just 1 min. Once cool, drain the veg and dry the eggs, put in a container or pop the eggs back in their egg box to transport.
• Whizz the ingredients for the watercress mayo in a food processor, or just finely chop the watercress and mix everything together. Spoon this into a container for transporting, too. To serve, peel an egg (or take a piece of veg) and dip into the mayo, then into the bacon crumbs.

Steps:

• Chop the egg whites and yolks separately and put them in separate bowls.
• Add the mayonnaise, relish, mustard, shallots, vinegar, chives and dill to the yolks and whisk until smooth. Whisk the bacon fat into the yolk mixture. Loosen with more vinegar or mayonnaise if necessary. Fold in the chopped egg whites and season with salt and pepper.
• Serve with assorted crudite for dipping.

Steps:

• For Pancake Batter:.
• In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• In a separate bowl, whisk room-temperature buttermilk, milk and eggs, vanilla extract and melted butter.
• Stir the wet mixture into the dry mixture until it's just blended, being careful not to over stir the batter. You want your batter to remain fairly thick. Set aside.
• Cook bacon according to package directions. You will want bacon on the crispy side.
• It's easier if you put your batter into a squeeze bottle, but it's not necessary.
• Draw" the pancake batter in a long oval shape onto the griddle, a tiny bit bigger than your cooked bacon slices (it will expand, so be careful not to make them too large).
• Place a slice of cooked bacon in the center of each pancake, and gently press bacon into the batter. Squirt more batter on top of each bacon slice, in a zig-zag pattern, so that you don't end up overcooking the bacon when it touches the griddle.
• Cook each dipper until the batter bubbles up and then flip until golden brown.
• Serve the bacon pancake dippers with your favorite syrup and eat while hot.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Arrange the bacon in a single layer on the prepared baking sheet, spacing the slices apart so they aren't touching.
• Bake the bacon until it reaches your desired level of crispiness, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour with the sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the milk, sour cream, egg and 2 tablespoons melted butter.
• Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix just until combined. (The batter should be lumpy.)
• Grease a griddle or large nonstick skillet with butter.
• Working in batches, arrange slices of the cooked bacon on the griddle, spacing them at least 3 inches apart. Spoon the pancake batter around and on top of each bacon strip and cook until bubbles form across the outside edges of the batter. Flip the pancake dippers once and continue cooking until they are cooked through. Repeat with the remaining bacon and pancake batter.
• Serve the pancake dippers warm with maple syrup for dipping.