How To Make Rendered Bacon Fat
Bacon fat is a versatile ingredient that adds a sumptuousness to every dish it touches. This recipe will teach you how to render and store it.
Serves:
Ingredients
- strips of raw bacon
Instructions
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Heat a large skillet on medium-low heat. Lay out several strips of raw bacon. Let the strips cook for 10 or 15 minutes, turning them occasionally.
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When the bacon strips are nicely browned and crispy, use tongs or a fork to lift them out of the pan and place them on paper towels (to absorb the excess fat) on a plate.
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Pour the remaining fat in the pan into a jar, and put the jar into your refrigerator. The bacon grease will solidify to a slightly off-color white. When cooking bacon again, pull out the jar and add more of the excess fat to it.
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The solid bacon bits can also be strained before pouring the fat into a jar.
Nutrition
- Calories: 120.93kcal
- Fat: 11.51g
- Saturated Fat: 3.86g
- Trans Fat: 0.04g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 5.06g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.87g
- Carbohydrates: 0.37g
- Sugar: 0.29g
- Protein: 3.66g
- Cholesterol: 19.14mg
- Sodium: 191.98mg
- Calcium: 1.45mg
- Potassium: 57.42mg
- Iron: 0.12mg
- Vitamin A: 3.19µg
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