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Maple-Glazed Canadian Bacon
Created by Chef Dean
Thick rounds of smoky back bacon kissed with pure maple syrup, pan-seared until the edges turn golden and sticky-sweet. This is the breakfast meat your grandmother served on Sunday mornings worth remembering.
Canadian bacon is not bacon at all, not in the American sense. It comes from the loin rather than the belly, cured and smoked like ham, lean where its cousin is fatty. The Canadians call it back bacon, and they've been pairing it with maple syrup since before either nation drew its borders. Some partnerships simply work.
The technique here is barely a technique. You're warming what's already cooked, building a glaze in the same pan, letting sugar and smoke find their natural harmony. The maple caramelizes against the hot metal, the bacon edges turn sticky and brown, and your kitchen fills with the kind of smell that pulls people from their beds.
I've served this alongside eggs scrambled soft, next to stacks of buttermilk pancakes, tucked into biscuits with a smear of butter. It belongs wherever breakfast happens. The whole affair takes fifteen minutes, start to finish, and most of that time you're just standing at the stove with a spatula, watching something good become something better.
Ingredients
Canadian bacon
Quantity
1 pound
sliced into 1/4-inch rounds
unsalted butter
Quantity
2 tablespoons
pure maple syrup
Quantity
1/4 cup
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Canadian baconsliced into 1/4-inch rounds | 1 pound |
| unsalted butter | 2 tablespoons |
| pure maple syrup | 1/4 cup |
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