Apple and Bacon (Æbleflæsk)

Name: Apple and Bacon (Æbleflæsk)
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 40 min

December 17, 2011

Prep 15 min Total 40 min

Apple and bacon (Æbleflæsk) © kvalifood.com

Recipe with video — the most underrated favourite at the Christmas dinner table. Or maybe that’s just me, but I look forward to it every single Christmas. Who doesn’t like apple jam with bacon in it, though?

Ingredients

1 kg apples
400 g bacon, diced
150–200 g sugar (or a little less)

Directions

Peel the apples, remove the cores and cut the apples into wedges.

Fry the bacon until completely crisp. Pour off the bacon and most of the fat.

Fry the apples in enough fat. If there isn’t enough fat, add more.

When the apples are soft, break them up into smaller pieces with a palette knife.

Add the sugar.

When the apples have turned brown, fold in the bacon pieces and let everything simmer for a minute or two until the dish is done.

Notes

You can chop the apples before putting them in the pan. This is especially useful if you’re using a plastic palette knife and a non-stick pan.

The dish is not very sensitive to the amounts of each ingredient. So the loose recipe is: “a pan full of peeled apples, enough bacon to cover the bottom of the pan, and enough sugar to cover the apples.”

If your apples are not particularly tart and taste a bit flat, adjust with a small amount (1 tsp) of apple cider vinegar.