Bacon sauce is prepared using Bacon as a base ingredient. This sauce is an integral feature of many Eastern and Western European, and American food cultures. Bacon is sliced into small pieces before combining and cooking with sweet and savory flavoring ingredients. Canadian bacon wine sauce, bacon chive white sauce, and bacon Alfredo sauce are some of the popular variants of bacon sauce.

Bacon Sauce Recipe Overview

• Ingredients – Salt, black pepper, bacon slices, thyme sprigs, garlic powder, ketchup, apricot preserves, brown sugar, Dijon mustard, honey, white vinegar, ground cumin and extra virgin olive oil are used in the preparation of  the sauce.
   
• Method of Preparation – Thyme sprigs are wrapped across bacon and cooked on pan with little oil. When the meat gets cooked properly, all other ingredients are added and cooked until the sauce thickens. The sauce is allowed to cool at room temperature and bottled after removing the bacon pieces.
   
• Cooking Tip – The amount of brown sugar and honey can be reduced as per the taste preferences of individual. The hotness of sauce can be improved by adding a dash of cayenne pepper.
   
• Serving - Bacon sauce is served over gnocchi or chicken dishes.

Popular Bacon Sauce Recipes

• Shallot Butter Bacon Sauce – This sauce is best served over turkey, vegetables, potatoes and steak.

  Ingredients – Peppered bacon, shallots, chives, white wine, white wine vinegar, heavy cream, cold butter, and salt-pepper are required to make this sauce.

  Method of Preparation – The bacon is cooked until it turns crispy and removed from pan. The cooked bacon is chopped and kept aside. All other ingredients except butter are cooked in the skillet. Butter and chopped bacon is added to the skillet and cooked until the sauce thickens. Shallot butter bacon sauce is served after seasoning with salt and pepper. The sauce can remain fresh for 3 days when refrigerated. It is normally reheated before serving.

  Nutrition – Each serving of the sauce delivers 168 calories with 17.6 grams of fat and 47 mg of cholesterol.

• Bacon Alfredo Sauce – This gourmet sauce is very popular in Italian and Swiss Cuisines and it is served over pasta dishes.

  Ingredients – Half and half, butter, flour, minced garlic, grated parmesan cheese, coarsely chopped parsley, and bacon are used in the preparation of sauce.

  Method of Preparation – Bacon is fried in a skillet and set aside. Garlic is fried in little butter and cooked with flour, and half and half. The sauce is stirred constantly to thick consistency. Parmesan cheese is added towards the end of cooking. The sauce is served hot after tossing with bacon and parsley.

  Variation – Chicken bacon Alfredo sauce is a popular variation of this sauce and it is prepared by adding chicken breast as one of the ingredients in the bacon Alfredo sauce. When chicken breasts are used the butter is discarded because bacon grease is used for frying the ingredients.