Recipes for Bacon Lovers
There’s no denying that bacon is a go-to comfort food. Whether you’re enjoying it in a breakfast roll, baking it into a pie filling or using it to liven up a portion of veggies, it’s a delicious way to add a savoury pop of protein to your cooking.
Bacon-centric dishes are often inexpensive to rustle up; you’ll notice a lot of our favourite bacon recipes pair lean rashers with budget-friendly staples like cheese, eggs and veg. From breakfasts and lunches through to dinners and side dishes, we’ve got plenty of bacon inspiration to get you started.
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Breakfasts for Bacon Lovers
These Bacon and Maple Blueberry Pancakes are bound to become an instant hit at breakfast time. Bacon medallions usually come with around 30% less fat than full-fat bacon rashers, so we’ve used them to lower the calories in our crispy maple-infused topping.
There’s no flour in sight here! We’ve used Ready Brek oats because we love the light, fluffy texture they give to our stack of pancakes, but you can use any oats you have handy in your store cupboard – just be sure to blend them nice and fine first!
A notoriously tasty combo you’d be sure to find on an American diner menu, the sweetness of syrup with savoury bacon is to die for. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it…
When it comes to pastry-based treats, we love cutting a few calories using our trusty low-calorie tortilla wrap ‘pastry’ hack. For our Bacon and Cheese Turnovers, we’ve recreated all the satisfaction of eating a bakery-bought puff pastry parcel, for only 114 calories a pop.
We bake our turnovers in the oven with a moreish bacon medallion and reduced-fat cheddar filling until they’re golden and crisp.
Just as good hot or cold, they’re a batch cook’s dream! Keep them in the fridge or freezer ready to go in your picnic basket.
Speaking of light breakfasts, have you tried our tupperware-friendly Breakfast Muffins? These eggy little bites are the perfect size to munch on first thing in the morning or throughout the day as a nutritious snack.
We’ve thrown grated courgette, mushrooms, red onion, spinach and all-important bacon bits into ours, but there’s nothing to stop you trying new fillings. They’re an easy peasy opportunity to give leftover peppers, spring onions and broccoli a new lease of life. Just be sure to take note of any additional calories, if you’re counting!
Lunches for Bacon Lovers
Inspired by our hugely popular Chicken Bacon and Leek Cottage Pie, our Chicken Bacon and Leek Crustless Quiche comes jam-packed with deliciousness for far fewer calories than a shop-bought version. Bake your meat, veggies and cheesy egg mixture in the oven until it’s fluffy-in-the-middle with a golden brown crown.
If you’re using a dish that’s smaller than 24cm, make sure you blitz the cottage cheese thoroughly to avoid a lumpy quiche. This dish from Amazon is the ideal size!
Served hot or cold, we love this crustless, cheesy dream with a fresh, crisp side salad.
It wouldn’t be right to talk about bacon without mentioning the mother of all bacon brunches: The BLT Sandwich. You’ll find bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise in our recipe, with the added bonus of sunny fried eggs.
When we’re feeling fancy, we toast ours to give our bread a posher ‘club sandwich’ feel. Not bad for 440 calories – ketchup and mayo included!
A comfort food warmer with a bacon-topped crunch, our Cauliflower Cheese Soup is one of our go-tos for chillier days. It’s filled with so many sneaky, nutritious veggies, you’ll be edging closer to your five-a-day with every spoonful. It’s hard to believe a recipe this silky and rich could be so low in calories, and yet every bowlful comes to just 210. What a winner!
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Dinners for Bacon Lovers
A combination of two irresistible pub grub classics (Hunters Chicken and Lasagne), this cheesy, saucy Hunters Chicken Lasagne guarantees you’ll never be spoilt for choice again.
To keep this dish tasting so much more indulgent than it is, we’ve swapped out high-calorie butter and white sauce for lighter, slimming-friendly alternatives.
We can’t get enough of the savoury bacon bits cutting through that oh-so-cheesy filling!
This one’s for Fakeaway burger night lovers! If burgers and bacon are both right up your street, you need to try our Melty Bacon and Cheese Pork Burgers.
If it’s messy to eat, chances are it’s delicious! We’ve piled each of our burger baps high with a lean pork patty, tomato, salad leaves and a melty, lightly-spiced cheese topper. We’d call that a recipe for a surefire instant hit with the whole family…
(Psst! You’ll need to grab a copy of our Family Meal Planner for the full recipe.)
A nostalgic dinner you can count on time and time again, we don’t need telling twice to pop our homely Bacon and Onion Potato Bake in the oven. Using only 5 ingredients (not including salt, pepper and low-calorie cooking spray), you can have this bacon-layered bake ready to impress for only 415 calories.
A fine grater will make preparing your cheesy topping even easier.
This recipe will work a treat with any potatoes you have spare, but we’d recommend King Edwards or Maris Piper as they really soak up the best of the bacon-y, cheesy flavours.
Side Dishes for Bacon Lovers
We’ll take any excuse to have bacon on the menu, even if that means chopping it finely and serving it to the side of our main. A treat for the wintry season, our Roasted Potatoes with Smoked Bacon take any Sunday Roast or Christmas dinner up a notch.
Baked crispy on the outside with a moreish fluffy middle, we’ve added chopped smoked bacon medallions, onions and spices to achieve spud perfection.
They’re so tasty and filling, you can also enjoy them with a salad as a lighter meal option!
When it comes to putting together Cajun-inspired flavours, bacon provides the perfect level of satisfying savoury smokiness. For our Cajun Style Green Beans, we’ve unlocked so much low-calorie deliciousness by combining mild spices with green beans, zesty garlic and lemon and smoked bacon slices. We’re betting even the fussiest eaters won’t be able to say no!
To save time when you’ve got a hankering for smoky, Cajun-like aromas, pre-made seasoning mixes are usually packed with all the spices you’re after, and budget-friendly too. Schwartz Cajun Seasoning is a staple on our spice rack, but any version that suits you will work deliciously well!
Crack out the seasoning and your air fryer all at once for our flavour-loaded Dirty Fries (don’t worry if you don’t have an air fryer at home, our recipe talks you through the oven method too!).
The star of the show at any Fakeaway feast, it’s hard to believe this cheesy, crispy, veg-covered side dish is so simple to make. The combination of the meaty bacon bits with the sweet, air-fried veg is a treat you’ll fancy coming back to time and time again!
Feeling inspired to cook up a bacon storm?
From brekkie to dinnertime, bacon takes any dish to the next level. If we’ve left you with a hankering to cook up a bacon recipe, we’d love to see it!
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