Now in Steve's kitchen today we're taking two classics, maple bacon
and popcorn can you go wrong with those two ingredients we're putting them
together
maple bacon popcorn This has been a lot of fun experimenting making this
recipe for you
I hope you'll give it a try come on let's start with the bacon
Now we're using streaky bacon because it makes the best crispy bacon now just come down
here
I'm not putting it on a rack I want to keep all that maple goodness
but I'm putting it onto a tray so we're just going to line that tray with some
baking foil
and then just take the streaky bacon and we're just going to lay it
out on the foil. Now we want our oven on on a moderate heat that's 170 celsius
325 fahrenheit we want real maple syrup now come down here
just going to pop some maple syrup in a little ramekin
or small bowl and then just taking a brush
we want to brush over the bacon with the maple syrup and that's why I'm not doing
this on a rack
so all that good maple goodness stays on our bacon
so we're going to take that now and pop it in the oven and keep an eye on it
depending on your oven we want this to go
lovely crispy brown color and then we're going to turn it over
and recoat it
now take a look at that bacon and it's been in there about 15 minutes
now we're going to turn each slice over just make sure that you absorb a lot of
that
maple that's on there and turn your bacon over and then
take that maple syrup and we're going to brush it over the
other side of the bacon and now this is back in the oven until its wonderful
and crispy
now look at that bacon it's been in there about another 10 or 12 minutes
before I take it off the tray I'm just going to soak up some of this beautiful
maple syrup that's left behind
then I'm going to take each of these strips and just lay them to cool down on the rack
and the great thing about doing it this way is no washing up
now once your maple bacon has cooled down it should be nice and stiff I'm just going
to bring it over onto a board and what you're going to do
is cut it up as fine as you can now
be prepared to get a little bit sticky that's fine now it's all about honesty
in Steve's Kitchen so I've got to tell you
look at that lovely pile of maple bacon I doubled up I actually made another
batch because
this is all about the bacon come on let's get on and make the popcorn
I've got my heavy based saucepan here and into that
I'm just going to put three-quarters of a cup of vegetable oil I'm actually using canola oil
there
half a cup of popping corn and a half a cup of soft brown sugar
now let's take this over to the stove so remember to get the stove on the highest
heat possible
and then just take all the ingredients and just start to mix them through
now it's the sugar and the oil that is going to produce our wonderful caramel now for
safety I should add you're working with hot sugars here so be very careful
we need to heat this up until the little corn kernels explode basically the water
inside the kernels is trying to escape
there you can start to see the caramel's forming in the oil
and all we're looking for now is for 1 or 2 or those kernels to start to pop
open now you see that that is the first little kernel starting to Pop
and there goes the second one watch out for the splattering of the fat
I am now going to cover this over and what we're going to do
is start to shake this backwards and forwards and you'll see inside there
the popcorn is starting to form and the caramel as well
now you might want to just turn the heat down a little bit we don't want to burn
our sugars
and just keep shaking this until you think all the corns have popped
now look it's still popping a little bit I've bought it over onto the board now
its almost complete can you see all the caramel forming on the lid
and we're going to uncover that and inside there
we've got that wonderful caramel popcorn
just going to pop it in now to my bowl see most of the oil has vanished
now even though we're putting maple bacon in here I still like to season it
a little bit with some salt
then you can take the lid on your box and give it a good shake up
now that is still a little bit hot I'm just going to
let it cool down a little bit now also at this point you can taste the popcorn
make sure it's season well enough
woah thats's hot. I just want a little bit of the heat to come off but I still
want it to be sticky
and then I'm going to take my maple covered bacon
and pop it in there and you can either shake it or just
mix it through and coat over the caramel popcorn
with the maple bacon now I'm in seventh heaven here because look at
that maple and bacon all over that lovely
caramelized popcorn you can't go wrong with this
I'm going to give it a try anyway I've got a nice bit of bacon on there
you are never going to go wrong with these two ingredients trust me
give this one a try I love to hear your comments down below
don't forget there is a full series of pop corn on we're going to be doing some others there's a few
request out there
I'm having a lot of fun with it be good share the love give this one a thumbs-up
and I'll see you in the next video, take care
now what do you think one of the best popcorn so far now there are so
many great creations up there don't forget I've got the whole playlist of popcorn
which is growing
each day and I'll leave a link to some other videos I'd love to hear your
comments down below be good
see you next time take care