Good ingredients to pair with bacon
Eggs and potatoes make the familiar route, but mushrooms, beans, pasta and cheese give you other textures and formats. Use something fresh or acidic alongside it when the dish needs contrast.
Easy bacon meal ideas
- bacon and egg hash — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- creamy bacon pasta — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- loaded bacon potatoes — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- bacon mushroom toast — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
How to get the best from bacon
Start bacon in a cool pan when you want the fat to render gradually and the pieces to crisp evenly. Use the rendered fat carefully to cook the next ingredient, seasoning the whole dish without needing much extra oil.
Turn a few ingredients into a coherent dinner
Choose a base, a flavour direction and one or two supporting ingredients. For example, rice or potatoes can make the meal filling, while lemon and garlic, tomato and herbs, soy and chilli, or curry spices can give the ingredients a clear direction.
Make the idea fit your evening
The same ingredient can produce a very different answer depending on whether you need dinner in 20 minutes, want one pan, are feeding four people or need to use another ingredient before it goes to waste. Add those constraints before choosing the final recipe.
Use SIZZIO to make it specific
Tell SIZZIO what you have, how many people you are feeding and what kind of meal you want. You can then save the recipe and move into the cooking flow instead of starting another search when it is time to cook.