Gordon's Guide To Bacon

first for lunch i'm using bacon deliciously seductive in asani and great for adding flavor and texture to thrifty dishes because a little goes a long long way my favorite bacon is traditional cured italian pancetta rich and strong in flavor it brings extra depth to salads stews and soups but a great cheap alternative is streaky bacon and it's what i'll be using for my thrifty lunch smoky bacon onions potatoes sweet corn it's amazing how cheap the ingredients are that go into this get your bacon and just cut into nice chunks i want these nice bite-sized pieces smoky chunky and just absolutely delicious it's almost like an american corn chowder potatoes give it starch thickness sweet corn gives it that glossy delicious flavor a couple of baileys they're always hanging around if they're not in your cupboard they're on someone's drive so ask to borrow them they are so powerful and it goes brilliantly well with the onions and the bacon bay leaves in a couple of potatoes it's incredible how far you can stretch something out especially when you bulk it with potatoes slice them and dice them nice and chunky soups are a fantastic way to use up leftover veg or meat that might otherwise go to waste and if you make it in bulk freeze it in individual portions and save on lunches throughout the week so you can see already how hearty and robust the soup is it's a delicious combination onions bacon potatoes and now some fresh leaks open up the leak into four give that a nice wash licks often have soil left in their tops so it's important to clean them thoroughly start sweating that down we haven't even got a corn in there yet and already it's looking and smelling incredible add salt but remember you've got bacon in there which is salty so proceed with caution really important to sweat those potatoes off i love getting that flavor from the smoky bacon in with the potatoes now once the leek is sweated off creamed corn a popular side dish in the states creamed corn is made from fresh frozen or even tinned corn cooked with onion butter and cream and can be bought ready made that starts to give the foundation the soup half the creamed corn add the sweet corn then your stock don't flood the soup just bring the stock to underneath the ingredients you can always add very difficult to take away homemade chicken stock is so cheap to make just boil up your roast chicken bones with a few fresh veg and freeze in batches for when you need it lighten the load with a touch of milk that gives a really nice bright color now bring that up to the ball turn it down and let it simmer for 12 to 15 minutes as it cooks slowly the starch thickens the soup the bacon renders and that leek onion starts to puree and the corn just shines okay next we're going to make the american cheese biscuits in the uk they're known as scones but in america they're called biscuits [Music] [Applause] first put plain flour into a sieve add baking powder and sift both into a bowl next add some salt pepper and grated mature cheddar cheese mix the dry ingredients then make it well in the center pour in double cream and gently combine with a wooden spoon turn your dough out onto a floured surface and knead for a few seconds only if you overwork it your cheese biscuits won't rise roll out your dough to about two centimetres thick and cut into four centimeter round biscuits [Applause] place well apart on a lined baking sheet and leave to rest on the tray for about 10 minutes then brush the top of each biscuit with melted butter and bake for about 30 minutes at 160 degrees c in a preheated oven when your cheese biscuits are well risen and a beautiful golden brown remove deliciously moorish served hot or cold time to dole out my thrifty lunch i always like to leave a soup to stand or rest it looks richer it gets rid of all the stock i like to have two thirds ingredient one third of the stock so it looks like a nice delicious chunky soup into the bowl [Music] beautiful tin sweet corn a leek potato and some streaky bacon but it doesn't look like it's just coming out of a stalker but that is proper hearty food [Music] served with my american style cheese biscuits this thrifty lunch may have been made on a shoestring but without an ounce of compromise on freshness and flavor [Music] the secret of a great hash brown are the potatoes i prefer using really nice waxy potatoes they cook better but more importantly hold themselves together we're not gonna slice the onion all the potatoes but we're actually going to grate them the potatoes get really nice and crispy i mean seriously crispy now the onion that way you get that nice balance of the onion flavor running through every little shard of potato [Music] season with salt pepper olive oil and km give that a really good mix through and then squeeze all that water out and look at all that juice we squeeze out there really important the more liquid you remove the crispier your hash browns will be nice large pan put that on once the pan is hot pour in a good glug of olive oil [Music] that sound confirms how important it is to have your pan nice and hot so seals the grated potato onion together so take the spoon and just pat it down what we're trying to do now is get it really nice and compact go around the outside of the pan with little flecks of butter you just slip them down the back gently and that gets the onions caramelised here's a great tip for turning your hash browns over quick and easy take a plate place it on top and just flip it over and then slide it back in very quickly you see the color we've got on there now got that nice crispy texture of the potato i'm going to use the hash brown as a bed for my baked eggs crack in your eggs nice and gently just a little sprinkling of the cayenne to make the eggs a little bit spicy then into a preheated oven for six to eight minutes meanwhile onto my bacon and i'm giving it a classic american twist now one thing i could never get my head around when i first started eating lots of american breakfast was the sweetness from the bacon i've grown up to love that combination of smoky sweet flavors and it's so easy pan on and simply heat olive oil brown sugar salt and pepper and butter bacon in and as it cooks it becomes irresistibly caramelized and golden brown toaster gas and my glazed bacon absolutely ready beautiful now my hash browns and baked eggs are ready at that beautiful just put your spatula underneath there onto your plate and that bacon sets beauty on top of the baked eggs and that hash brown underneath and you can see why the best breakfasts in the world are always in america this is an all-american superhero offer breakfast eggs bait in hash browns with glazed bacon [Music]

Channel: Gordon Ramsay

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Length: 8min 57sec (537 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 25 2021