**Scallion Bacon Ketchup: A Flavorful Condiment Trio**
Elevate your culinary creations with a trio of extraordinary condiments: scallion bacon ketchup, spicy bacon ketchup, and bacon ketchup. These homemade sauces are crafted with a symphony of flavors, combining the richness of bacon, the tang of ketchup, and the aromatic freshness of scallions. Whether you're a burger aficionado, a fry enthusiast, or simply seeking a unique addition to your pantry, these condiments will tantalize your taste buds and leave you craving more. Join us on a culinary journey as we unveil the secrets behind these delectable concoctions, providing step-by-step instructions to guide you in creating these condiments in the comfort of your own kitchen.
FILIPINO-STYLE BANANA KETCHUP
Sweet floral bananas stand in for tomatoes in this spicy condiment that is unique to the Philippines, where a tomato shortage and concurrent banana surplus during World War II led to the invention of ketchup made with the tropical fruit. Use the ketchup like you would a chutney: as a dip for vegetables, as a spread on sandwiches, or as a sauce for grilled or roast chicken or pork.
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories condiment
Time 30m
Yield 2 cups
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Heat the oil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in the ginger, turmeric, allspice, garlic and jalapeno and cook, stirring until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the tomato paste and cook, stirring until lightly caramelized, about 1 minute. Add the mashed bananas, vinegar, brown sugar, soy sauce and rum, if using, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Scrape the sauce into a bowl, press a sheet of plastic wrap on the top and let cool. Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
HOMEMADE KETCHUP
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories condiment
Time 1h30m
Yield about 5 cups
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Heat the vegetable oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in the ginger, garlic, mustard powder, allspice and cayenne and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add the tomato paste and cook, stirring, 1 minute, then add the whole peeled tomatoes and scrape up any browned bits from the bottom of the pot with a wooden spoon; remove from the heat.
- Puree the ketchup in batches in a blender until smooth; return to the pot. Add the bay leaves, brown sugar, vinegar, molasses and 4 teaspoons salt. Bring to a simmer over medium-low heat and cook, stirring occasionally to avoid scorching, until very thick, about 1 hour, 45 minutes. Remove the bay leaves and let the ketchup cool. Transfer to an airtight container and refrigerate up to 2 weeks.
- Cook 3 slices finely chopped bacon in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp, about 12 minutes. Pour off all but 1 tablespoon drippings from the pan, then stir in 1 teaspoon smoked paprika. Stir in 1 cup homemade ketchup (above); simmer 2 minutes. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon cider vinegar and thin with water, if necessary. Serve warm.
- Peach-Curry Ketchup
- Melt 1/2 tablespoon butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add 1/2 cup chopped peeled peaches, 1 teaspoon chopped peeled ginger and 1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder; cook, stirring, 1 minute. Stir in 1 cup homemade ketchup (above); simmer 5 minutes. Transfer to a blender and add 2 tablespoons water; puree until smooth.
- Chop 1 to 2 teaspoons chipotle chiles in adobo sauce, then mash with the flat side of the knife. Heat 1 teaspoon vegetable oil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add 1 teaspoon ground cumin and stir 10 seconds, then stir in 1 cup homemade ketchup (above) and the chipotles; simmer 2 minutes. Stir in 1 teaspoon each lime juice and honey and thin with water, if necessary.
BACON SCALLION CREAM SAUCE
Here we have a re-education - or an education, if you're a first-timer - in the virtues of an old-fashioned cream gravy. A few tablespoons of this elixir can uplift plainly cooked meat like a lamb chop or steak, layering on the richness of cream but also the freshness of scallion and black pepper. Use plenty of each.These days, home cooks are not likely to keep meat drippings around in the kitchen to make a fat-and-flour roux, but there's nothing wrong with hacking a substitute from a lump of butter and a slab of bacon. Then cook them together with flour to make a golden, toasty-smelling roux. After adding the broth and cream, the sauce will seem thin, but stay the course: don't even think of adding more flour. It takes a few minutes for the flour's starch to absorb the liquid. Take the gravy off the heat when it still seems a little too thin: it will thicken further at the table.
Provided by Julia Moskin
Categories quick, condiments, dips and spreads, sauces and gravies
Time 25m
Yield About 1 1/2 cups
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- In a heavy saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Add bacon and cook for 3 to 5 minutes, until fat has rendered. Add flour, then stir together and cook over low heat, stirring often, until golden and toasty-smelling, 4 to 6 minutes.
- Add chicken stock and cream, and simmer over low heat until reduced to a thick, pourable gravy, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in peppercorns and scallions, and taste for salt, adding more as needed. Serve hot.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 425, UnsaturatedFat 14 grams, Carbohydrate 13 grams, Fat 39 grams, Fiber 1 gram, Protein 7 grams, SaturatedFat 23 grams, Sodium 496 milligrams, Sugar 4 grams, TransFat 0 grams
SLAB-BACON TACOS WITH BURNED-SCALLION CREMA
This is candied bacon, essentially, on corn tortillas with a creamy, smoke-flecked sauce that tastes of scallion and lime. I like it with pineapple salsa as well, and a salad of cilantro, mint and soft lettuce. You could make it with your standard sliced bacon from the market, but it's far superior with the thick-cut variety or, best of all, with a chunk of uncut bacon that you can slice as thick as you like.
Provided by Sam Sifton
Categories tacos, main course
Time 45m
Yield 6 to 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Heat oven to 450 degrees. Mix the chile powder, ground cumin, brown sugar and black pepper together in a large bowl, and then add the bacon slices, tossing to coat them with the spice mixture.
- Arrange the coated bacon slices on a sheet pan, ideally one fitted with a wire rack. Roast in the oven until they are caramelized and starting to crisp at the edges, approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Remove pan from oven, chop the bacon into large dice and keep warm. Reserve the bacon fat for another use.
- While the bacon cooks, make the crema. Put the scallions and jalapeño in a large dry sauté pan and cook over high heat, tossing occasionally, until the scallions and jalapeño have blackened at the edges, approximately 10 to 12 minutes.
- Put the scallions and jalapeño in the bowl of a food processor, and blitz them with the juice of 1 lime, then add the sour cream and mayonnaise, and blitz the mixture until it is smooth and flecked with blackened bits. Season to taste with the salt and, if you'd like the mixture thinner, the juice of the second lime. Scrape into a bowl, and reserve.
- To serve, warm the tortillas in the dry pan, one or two at a time, and reserve them in a tortilla warmer or clean dish towel. Fill them with the diced bacon and a slash of the crema, along with quartered limes and, if you like, salsa, cilantro, mint and hot sauce.
BLOODY MARY KETCHUP
Steps:
- Mix 3/4 cup ketchup, 1/4 cup horseradish, 2 teaspoons hot sauce, 1 teaspoon celery salt and 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce.
SCALLOPS WITH BACON AND SCALLIONS
Provided by Rachael Ray : Food Network
Categories appetizer
Time 23m
Yield 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Crisp bacon in frying pan, under broiler or in microwave, whichever you prefer. Work on the dip while bacon cooks. When bacon is crisp, drain and chop. Set aside.
- Preheat a nonstick pan over high heat for scallops.
- Season scallops with salt and pepper. To very hot skillet, add 1 tablespoon oil, 1 turn of the pan, then place 9 scallops in the pan, an inch apart. Sear scallops 2 minutes on each side or until caramelized and opaque. Transfer to a platter and cover loosely with foil. Repeat with remaining scallops.
- To serve, top scallops with chopped bacon bits and scallions by scattering them evenly over the plattered scallops. Place party picks in a shot glass or small dish and set them on/near platter. Place the crab dip on a large serving platter or board and surround with asparagus spears and sliced baguette, for dipping and spreading.
CURRY KETCHUP
This spiced ketchup is ubiquitous in Germany, where it's slathered onto currywurst (sausage). It's popular in cities with German roots like Philadelphia and Portland, OR.
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories condiment
Time 15m
Yield about 1 1/2 cups of curry ketchup
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Heat the oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring frequently, until softened without browning, about 5 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook until softened, about 1 minute. Add the curry powder, paprika, mustard powder and salt and stir to evenly coat. Add the cider vinegar and Worcestershire, stirring with a wooden spoon to scrape up any browned bits. Stir in the ketchup and sugar, then bring to a boil and remove from the heat.
- Transfer the ketchup mixture to a blender along with 2 tablespoons water and blend until smooth, adding 1 more tablespoon water if too thick.
SEARED SCALLOPS WITH BACON
Bacon and scallops are a classic combination. Here, the smoky-and-sweet pairing is used as a savory topping for our Sauteed Zucchini and Wax Beans.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Appetizers
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Heat a large saute pan over medium-low heat, and add bacon. Cook slowly, stirring frequently, until brown and crisp, about 8 minutes. Remove bacon with a slotted spoon, and transfer to a paper-towel-lined plate.
- Drain excess fat, leaving a thin coat on bottom of pan. Increase heat to medium, add scallops to pan, and sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Cook until golden brown and opaque, about 2 minutes per side.
- Transfer scallops to the serving dish, and add shallots to pan. When shallots are translucent, add white wine; scrape browned bits from bottom of pan with a wooden spoon. Cook until liquid is reduced by half, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in butter, and pour over scallops; top with reserved bacon. Serve over ribbon zucchini.
SAUTEED CORN, BACON, AND SCALLIONS
The richness of bacon and the bite of scallions complement the sweetness of corn kernels in this hearty side dish.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Meat & Poultry Pork Recipes
Time 20m
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until browned, 4 to 6 minutes.
- Add corn kernels; season with salt, pepper, and a pinch of crushed red pepper. Cook, stirring often, until corn is tender, 5 to 8 minutes. Stir in scallions. Serve immediately.
BACON KETCHUP!!! TRENDY!!
How could I not make this recipe?! An interesting example of the trendy use of bacon these days. If you are intrigued by unusual recipes, this is it! I hope someone else makes this; I would really like another opinion. Well worth trying. I am not sure I liked the finished product cold; room temp might be better. Warmed, it is more like a salsa, great on meatloaf or hamburgers. Perhaps chicken cooked with this would also be good. For me, it's a little too sweet as is; I corrected that with a tad more vinegar and a good sprinkle of sea salt. When making it again, I will cut down on the sugar. Not having thick bacon on hand, I used regular bacon and doubled the amount. But thick bacon would give a chunkier result. I had gorgeous thick-walled red peppers which also helped to make a nicely chunky sauce . And I'm a fan of chunky sauces. And its a beautiful red color! It certainly could be pureed to a texture more like Heinz but I think it would lose some of its appeal. The smoked paprika added a lot; I would increase this to taste. And maybe add a dash of Tabasco too. This takes quite a while to make, heck, you gotta roast those peppers! But it is time well spent. In the summer I'll sacrifice some heirloom tomatoes for this, see how that works. I found the recipe in two places. First, in a recipe book packed in a crate of premium canned tomatoes from Muir Glen. Then, online, under Lisa Carlson's Chef Shack Bacon Ketchup. Identical recipes. Also it appears in several food blogs. And, while we're talking bacon, I can't see bacon cookies. Or fudge. Not in my kitchen.
Provided by Jezski
Categories Pork
Time 1h30m
Yield 1 quart?, 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Roast those peppers!
- Saute onion and garlic in a tablespoon or two of oil until tender and caramelized.
- Add brown sugar to caramelized onions and garlic, and cook a couple of minutes until well integrated.
- Add tomatoes, roast bell peppers, paprika, bay leaf, and fresh thyme. Simmer about one hour.
- Add salt and pepper to taste. Add balsamic vinegar at the end.
- Preheat oven to 350. Place bacon strips on a baking sheet in the oven until they are crispy all over. Drain on paper towels and dice into small pieces; fold into ketchup.
- Serve with hamburgers, French fries, grilled cheese, or anything else you wish had some bacon on it.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 200.7, Fat 10.3, SaturatedFat 2.7, Cholesterol 9.6, Sodium 131.9, Carbohydrate 25.7, Fiber 3.4, Sugar 20.3, Protein 3.9
Tips:
- Use high-quality bacon: Choose thick-cut bacon with good marbling for the best flavor and texture.
- Cook the bacon until crispy: This will help it to render out its fat and give the ketchup a smoky flavor.
- Use fresh scallions: The green part of the scallions adds a bright flavor to the ketchup.
- Use a good quality ketchup: Choose a ketchup that you enjoy the taste of, as it will be the base of your homemade ketchup.
- Experiment with different spices: Add a pinch of garlic powder, onion powder, or chili powder to taste.
- Let the ketchup cool completely before storing it: This will help the flavors to meld together.
Conclusion:
This scallion bacon ketchup is a delicious and versatile condiment that can be used on burgers, hot dogs, fries, or as a dipping sauce for chicken fingers or onion rings. It's also great for adding a smoky, savory flavor to grilled meats or vegetables. With its unique flavor and easy-to-make recipe, this ketchup is sure to become a favorite in your kitchen.
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