Bacon Wrapped Asparagus
Asparagus wrapped in bacon or prosciutto — candied bacon wrapped asparagus, garlicky-prosciutto bundles, cream cheese spears — an easy side for any night.
★
Ingredients
- one bundle Asparagus
- one package Bacon
- 2 cups Salted butter
- 1.5 cups Brown sugar
- as much as your heart tells you Minced garlic
- 1 cup Maple syrup
Instructions
- 1Prep your asparagus, chop off the ends, and wash your veggies!
- 2Open your package of bacon
- 3Get a 9 by 13 pan, lightly oil, and pre heat your oven to 350 degrees
- 4Grab three pieces of asparagus and begin to wrap them in one piece of bacon
- 5Place the bacon wrapped asparagus in your pan as you go!
- 6In a sauce pan heat up your stove to medium heat and toss in your butter and let it melt
- 7One the butter has melted in your sauces pan add in your minched garlic, measure the amount of garlic with you heart
- 8Once the garlic is nice and fragrant add in your brown sugar and maple syrup, stir it constantly so let all the ingredients incorporate!
- 9Once your glaze is at your desired consistency pour is over your bacon wrapped asparagus
- 10Once your glaze is poured evenly over you bacon wrapped asparagus cover the pan with tin foil, and stick it in your oven
- 11After 30 minutes of your bacon wrapped asparagus cooking remove it from the oven and remove your tin foil and return it into the oven and cook for 10 more minutes!
P.S. We update the recipes on this page every few days. If you want to cook this recipe over and over again, we'd love it if you downloaded Pepper 🤝.
More to try
lunch
side
appetizerFind more recipes like this
Join 1M+ cooks discovering, organizing, and sharing their recipes on Pepper
Open in Pepper →Asparagus Gets Better Wrapped In Bacon
A bunch of asparagus can sit in the crisper all week, but wrap it in bacon and it disappears off the pan before dinner is even plated. The bacon fat does the seasoning for you, and the spears come out tender with crisp tips.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when they need one more thing on the table — a holiday spread, a steak night, or a Tuesday when the oven is already on for chicken.
Every recipe here is asparagus and pork in some form: candied bacon wrapped asparagus with butter and brown sugar, a plain bacon wrapped version with olive oil, Gigi P's Garlicky-Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus, and prosciutto wrapped spears with softened cream cheese.
Quick Tips
- 1
Snap off the woody ends
Bend one spear until it breaks and line the rest up to cut there — usually the bottom 1 to 2 inches.
- 2
Use thin sliced bacon
Thick cut needs 30 minutes to crisp and the asparagus turns mushy; thin slices cook through in about 20 minutes at 400°F.
- 3
Bundle three or four spears
Wrap 3 to 4 spears together with one bacon slice so the bundle holds and you get bacon in every bite.
- 4
Bake on a wire rack
Set the rack over a sheet pan so grease drips away and the bacon crisps on all sides instead of steaming.
Browse More Recipes
Never lose a recipe again
Save everything. Stay organized. Share with friends.
