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bacon-wrapped chicken leg drumstick recipe made with indiana kitchen bacon

Bacon-Wrapped Drumsticks

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bacon-wrapped chicken leg drumstick recipe made with indiana kitchen bacon

bacon-wrapped chicken leg drumstick recipe made with indiana kitchen bacon
Bacon-Wrapped Drumsticks
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How do you make pigs fly? Put 'em on a bird. These Bacon-Wrapped Drumsticks are easier than they look, and they'll fly right off the table, if you know what we mean.
Servings Prep Time
8 drumsticks 10 minutes
Cook Time
1 hour
Servings Prep Time
8 drumsticks 10 minutes
Cook Time
1 hour
bacon-wrapped chicken leg drumstick recipe made with indiana kitchen bacon
Bacon-Wrapped Drumsticks
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How do you make pigs fly? Put 'em on a bird. These Bacon-Wrapped Drumsticks are easier than they look, and they'll fly right off the table, if you know what we mean.
Servings Prep Time
8 drumsticks 10 minutes
Cook Time
1 hour
Servings Prep Time
8 drumsticks 10 minutes
Cook Time
1 hour
Ingredients
Servings: drumsticks
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  2. Poke the chicken a few times to help with cooking and rub with olive oil.
  3. Sprinkle the rosemary, parsley, salt and pepper to season.
  4. Rub with olive oil again and roll one slice of bacon onto each drumstick.
  5. Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove foil and put back in the oven, until cooked through (roughly another 30 minutes).
Recipe Notes

Some people prefer to take the skin off of the chicken, but it works either way.

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bacon corn chowder recipe made with indiana kitchen bacon

Bacon Corn Chowder

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bacon corn chowder recipe made with indiana kitchen bacon

bacon corn chowder recipe made with indiana kitchen bacon
Bacon Corn Chowder
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Looking for new ways to use that freezer corn you stockpiled? This Bacon Corn Chowder doesn't disappoint!
Servings Prep Time
6 servings 20 minutes
Cook Time
10 minutes
Servings Prep Time
6 servings 20 minutes
Cook Time
10 minutes
bacon corn chowder recipe made with indiana kitchen bacon
Bacon Corn Chowder
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Looking for new ways to use that freezer corn you stockpiled? This Bacon Corn Chowder doesn't disappoint!
Servings Prep Time
6 servings 20 minutes
Cook Time
10 minutes
Servings Prep Time
6 servings 20 minutes
Cook Time
10 minutes
Ingredients
Servings: servings
Instructions
  1. In a large skillet, cook bacon until crisp. Remove bacon from pan, but save 1 1/2 teaspoons of bacon grease.
  2. Add chopped onion to the pan with grease. Cook until tender, stirring occasionally.
  3. Cover potatoes with water in a large saucepan and cook until tender. Drain potatoes, but save about a cup of potato water.
  4. Add the corn, milk, salt, pepper, and potato water into the saucepan with the potatoes. Heat all the way through and stir in bacon and onion.
Recipe Notes

Serve with some bread or biscuits to have the perfect dish!

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savory pancakes made with cheddar, green onion and Indiana Kitchen bacon recipe

Bacon Cheddar Cakes

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savory pancakes made with cheddar, green onion and Indiana Kitchen bacon recipe

savory pancakes made with cheddar, green onion and Indiana Kitchen bacon recipe
Bacon Cheddar Cakes
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If savory's more your style, leave the syrup in the cupboard and try these delicious pancakes instead--featuring cheddar cheese, green onion and Indiana Kitchen bacon.
Servings Prep Time
4 servings 15 minutes
Cook Time
20 minutes
Servings Prep Time
4 servings 15 minutes
Cook Time
20 minutes
savory pancakes made with cheddar, green onion and Indiana Kitchen bacon recipe
Bacon Cheddar Cakes
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If savory's more your style, leave the syrup in the cupboard and try these delicious pancakes instead--featuring cheddar cheese, green onion and Indiana Kitchen bacon.
Servings Prep Time
4 servings 15 minutes
Cook Time
20 minutes
Servings Prep Time
4 servings 15 minutes
Cook Time
20 minutes
Ingredients
Servings: servings
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt together.
  2. Using a wooden spoon, stir in the milk and melted butter with the dry pancake ingredients. Whisk the egg in a separate bowl before adding to pancake mixture.
  3. Stir in the green onions and cheddar cheese.
  4. Butter a large skillet, pan or griddle over medium heat.
  5. Scoop about 1/4 cup of batter on to the grill at a time and then sprinkle some of the bacon crumbles onto the batter.
  6. Cook each cake until you start to see bubbles, then flip and cook for another 2-3 minutes or until each side is nicely browned and the middles are cooked through.
  7. Repeat until all batter is used. Garnish with remaining bacon crumbles, cheese and green onion and serve with hot-sauce-maple-syrup combo.
Recipe Notes

Save some extra bacon crumbles, cheddar cheese and green onions for garnish. Mix some maple syrup with your favorite hot sauce for a spicy sweet pancake topping.

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slow cooked bacon wrapped pork loin recipe featuring indiana kitchen premium pork products

Slow-Cooked Bacon-Wrapped Pork Loin

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slow cooked bacon wrapped pork loin recipe featuring indiana kitchen premium pork products

slow cooked bacon wrapped pork loin recipe featuring indiana kitchen premium pork products
Slow-Cooked Bacon-Wrapped Pork Loin
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Don't be fooled by the fancy, schmancy looks of this pork-on-pork masterpiece…this bacon-wrapped beauty can be made in your crockpot! It's gourmet made easy.
Servings Prep Time
8 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
3-4 hours
Servings Prep Time
8 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
3-4 hours
slow cooked bacon wrapped pork loin recipe featuring indiana kitchen premium pork products
Slow-Cooked Bacon-Wrapped Pork Loin
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Don't be fooled by the fancy, schmancy looks of this pork-on-pork masterpiece…this bacon-wrapped beauty can be made in your crockpot! It's gourmet made easy.
Servings Prep Time
8 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
3-4 hours
Servings Prep Time
8 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
3-4 hours
Ingredients
Pork Loin
Glaze
Servings: servings
Instructions
  1. In a small bowl, mix brown sugar, garlic, dried rosemary, salt and pepper. Season pork loin with this mixture, rubbing on all sides.
  2. Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Brown pork loin on all sides by searing for about 2-3 minutes per side.
  3. Let pork loin cool for a few minutes while you make the glaze. To make glaze, mix the fig jam, mustards and orange zest in a small bowl.
  4. Wrap pork loin with bacon by laying one slice at a time crosswise over the top of the pork, tucking ends underneath the pork loin if able. Overlap edges of bacon slices partially. Continue until loin is fully covered with bacon.
  5. Place bacon-wrapped loin in a slow cooker and top with fig glaze. Cover and cook on low for 3-4 hours, or until thoroughly cooked through with an internal temperature of 140 degrees F.
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kung pao bacon recipe using indiana kitchen bacon

Kung Pao Bacon

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kung pao bacon recipe using indiana kitchen bacon

kung pao bacon recipe using indiana kitchen bacon
Kung Pao Bacon
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WARNING: Flavor explosion ahead! Indiana Kitchen Thick-Cut Bacon gets a Sichuan makeover in this Chinese favorite starring dried chili peppers, bell peppers, garlic, ginger and peanuts!
Servings Prep Time
4 people 10 minutes
Cook Time
10 minutes
Servings Prep Time
4 people 10 minutes
Cook Time
10 minutes
kung pao bacon recipe using indiana kitchen bacon
Kung Pao Bacon
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WARNING: Flavor explosion ahead! Indiana Kitchen Thick-Cut Bacon gets a Sichuan makeover in this Chinese favorite starring dried chili peppers, bell peppers, garlic, ginger and peanuts!
Servings Prep Time
4 people 10 minutes
Cook Time
10 minutes
Servings Prep Time
4 people 10 minutes
Cook Time
10 minutes
Ingredients
Stir-Fry
Sauce
Servings: people
Instructions
  1. Prepare the Kung Pao sauce by stirring all the sauce ingredients together in a bowl until the sugar and cornstarch are dissolved. Set aside.
  2. Heat a wok or large skillet over high heat until a drop of water sizzles and evaporates on contact. When hot enough, add bacon and cook until crisp on the outside and cooked through, about 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer cooked bacon to a paper towel-lined plate.
  3. Drain all but 1 tablespoon of bacon grease from the wok or skillet. Add chilis and stir-fry for about 30 seconds, until the oil becomes fragrant and the chilis have begun to blacken.
  4. Add scallion whites, garlic and ginger and stir-fry for about 30 seconds. Add the red bell pepper and stir-fry for another 30 seconds. Add bacon back to the wok or skillet. Pour in the Kung Pao sauce and mix to coat the other ingredients. Stir in peanuts then transfer to serving plate and garnish with scallion greens on top.
Recipe Notes

This dish is delicious served over a bowl of steaming rice.

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Pork and veggie stir fry

Fast & Filling Stir Fry

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Pork and veggie stir fry
Fast & Filling Stir Fry
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Make short work of dinner with this sweet and savory, fast and filling, wok-friendly stir fry-- featuring Indiana Kitchen pork tenderloin!
Servings Prep Time
4 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Servings Prep Time
4 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Pork and veggie stir fry
Fast & Filling Stir Fry
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Make short work of dinner with this sweet and savory, fast and filling, wok-friendly stir fry-- featuring Indiana Kitchen pork tenderloin!
Servings Prep Time
4 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Servings Prep Time
4 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Ingredients
Servings: servings
Instructions
  1. Add pork to a medium bowl, season with salt and toss with cornstarch until coated.
  2. In a separate bowl, whisk garlic, ginger, brown sugar, soy sauce, and pepper until blended; set aside.
  3. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, heat 1 tsp oil. Cook broccoli, green beans and white parts of green onion until tender, about 2 minutes. Transfer to a plate.
  4. Return skillet to high heat and add the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil. When the oil is almost smoking, add pork.
  5. Cook pork until crispy and no longer pink, about 5 minutes.
  6. Reduce heat to medium heat, then return vegetables and add half the sauce to the pan.
  7. Stir quickly to coat pork and vegetables in glaze. (Watch carefully- sauce can burn due to the sugar) Add remaining half of the sauce until you reach your desired sauciness.
  8. Garnish with green onions. Enjoy.
Recipe Notes

This recipe is a wonderful template to play around with. Try adding other vegetables you like, such as bell peppers, asparagus, snap peas, carrots or mushrooms, or try adjust the heat-level of the sauce by adding in your favorite hot sauce or chilies.

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Pancakes cooked and topped with mouthwatering bacon.

Bacon-Flapjack-Stack

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Pancakes cooked and topped with mouthwatering bacon.
Bacon-Flapjack-Stack
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If you've been keeping your slices safe and separate from your cakes your whole life, you're doing it wrong. Here's how to make a bacon-flapjack-stack Paul Bunyan would be proud of.
Servings Prep Time
16 pancakes 5 minutes
Cook Time
25 minutes
Servings Prep Time
16 pancakes 5 minutes
Cook Time
25 minutes
Pancakes cooked and topped with mouthwatering bacon.
Bacon-Flapjack-Stack
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If you've been keeping your slices safe and separate from your cakes your whole life, you're doing it wrong. Here's how to make a bacon-flapjack-stack Paul Bunyan would be proud of.
Servings Prep Time
16 pancakes 5 minutes
Cook Time
25 minutes
Servings Prep Time
16 pancakes 5 minutes
Cook Time
25 minutes
Ingredients
Servings: pancakes
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 200°F.
  2. In a bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
  3. In another bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients: buttermilk, melted butter, and egg.
  4. Whisk flour mixture into buttermilk mixture until moistened, with small to medium lumps remaining.
  5. In a large cast-iron, nonstick skillet or on a griddle, cook bacon over medium-high until fat is rendered and bacon is browned on one side, about 5-6 minutes. Flip and cook until golden and crisp on the underside, about 1-3 minutes more.
  6. Set bacon aside on paper towel-lined plate. Pour off all but 1 tsp fat from skillet, saving excess bacon fat in a container.
  7. Heat skillet over medium. Pour 1/4 cup of batter into skillet and top each with a bacon slice.
  8. Cook until some bubbles appear on top of pancakes and a few have burst, about 2 minutes. With a spatula, carefully flip the pancakes and cook until browned on the underside, about 2 minutes more.
  9. Transfer to a platter, bacon side up, and loosely tent with foil.
  10. Keep pancakes warm in the oven and repeat with remaining batter, adding more bacon fat if needed. Serve with pure maple syrup.
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Your everyday breakfast sandwich spiced up with irresistible pulled pork

Pulled Pork Breakfast Sammies

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Your everyday breakfast sandwich spiced up with irresistible pulled pork
Pulled Pork Breakfast Sammies
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Why wait for dinner? These Pulled Pork Breakfast Sammies are topped with a fried egg, as if you needed an excuse to have pulled pork for breakfast.*
Servings Prep Time
6 sandwiches 5 minutes
Cook Time
20 minutes
Servings Prep Time
6 sandwiches 5 minutes
Cook Time
20 minutes
Your everyday breakfast sandwich spiced up with irresistible pulled pork
Pulled Pork Breakfast Sammies
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Why wait for dinner? These Pulled Pork Breakfast Sammies are topped with a fried egg, as if you needed an excuse to have pulled pork for breakfast.*
Servings Prep Time
6 sandwiches 5 minutes
Cook Time
20 minutes
Servings Prep Time
6 sandwiches 5 minutes
Cook Time
20 minutes
Ingredients
Servings: sandwiches
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 325°F.
  2. Add pulled pork with barbecue sauce, if desired, to baking dish; mix lightly. Bake, uncovered, for 15 minutes or until heated thoroughly.
  3. While pulled pork heats up, fry bacon to desired doneness in skillet over medium heat. When finished, set aside on a paper towel-lined plate.
  4. In another large nonstick skillet, melt half the butter on medium-low heat.
  5. Crack 3 of the eggs into the skillet, 1 at a time, keeping separate. Fry eggs about 5 minutes, or until the egg whites are solid and the yolks reach desired doneness.
  6. Transfer cooked eggs to a plate and set aside. Repeat steps 4 and 5 with remaining butter and eggs.
  7. Make sandwiches by layering pulled pork, cheese slices, lettuce, red cabbage, bacon and eggs on a hamburger bun just before serving.
Recipe Notes

Make the pulled pork ahead of time to make breakfast a breeze. Here's a simple recipe for turning an Indiana Kitchen Pork Shoulder into delicious pulled pork in a slow cooker: https://indianakitchen.com/recipe/slow-cooker-pulled-pork/.

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Bacon and apple salad tossed with a light apple vinaigrette

Bacon Apple Salad

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Bacon and apple salad tossed with a light apple vinaigrette
Bacon Apple Salad
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Are any of our fans into a Paleo diet? Yay or nay, this paleo- friendly salad is filling and delicious, featuring Indiana kitchen bacon, green apples, and manchego cheese.
Servings Prep Time
2 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Servings Prep Time
2 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Bacon and apple salad tossed with a light apple vinaigrette
Bacon Apple Salad
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Are any of our fans into a Paleo diet? Yay or nay, this paleo- friendly salad is filling and delicious, featuring Indiana kitchen bacon, green apples, and manchego cheese.
Servings Prep Time
2 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Servings Prep Time
2 servings 10 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Ingredients
For the Salad:
For the Apple Cider Vinaigrette:
For the Candied Pecans:
Servings: servings
Instructions
  1. To roast your pecans, preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and in a bowl, toss the pecan halves with the coconut oil, sugar, and cinnamon.
  2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spread them out evenly. Bake for 5-7 minutes in the preheated oven, checking to make sure they don't begin to burn.
  3. Combine the vinaigrette ingredients in a small bowl and whisk well.
  4. To assemble the salad, combine the romaine lettuce with the apples, roasted candied pecans, and crumbled bacon. Just before serving, toss in the prepared apple cider vinaigrette.
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Spicy pork tacos with veggie toppings

Spicy Pork and Pepper Tacos

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Spicy pork tacos with veggie toppings
Spicy Pork and Pepper Tacos
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Quick, healthy, flavorful-- these three-step Spicy Pork and Pepper Tacos are checking all the right boxes for an easy weeknight dinner.
Servings Prep Time
6 servings 15 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Servings Prep Time
6 servings 15 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Spicy pork tacos with veggie toppings
Spicy Pork and Pepper Tacos
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Quick, healthy, flavorful-- these three-step Spicy Pork and Pepper Tacos are checking all the right boxes for an easy weeknight dinner.
Servings Prep Time
6 servings 15 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Servings Prep Time
6 servings 15 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Ingredients
Servings: servings
Instructions
  1. Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add pork and cook for 8 minutes or until the pork loses its pink color. Remove from pan; keep warm. While pork is cooking, mix sour cream with chipotle powder, cumin and paprika. Set aside.
  2. In same pan used for pork, add 2 teaspoons oil and, once heated, add bell peppers and onions. Saute 5 minutes or until tender.
  3. Divide pork evenly among tortillas; top each serving with 1/2 cup of pepper & onion mixture, spoonful of spicy sour cream, and cilantro and squirt of lime is using. Enjoy.
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