Bacon Wrapped Asparagus
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 3-4
This bacon wrapped asparagus is a fun way to dress up your favorite springtime perennial! Serve this easy recipe as a tasty side dish for Mother’s Day Brunch. Show your mother how much you love her by serving this with a fried or poached egg, toast, and a side of fruit. However you serve these young shoots wrapped with love, your mother will be impressed.
Ingredients
16 spears of asparagus
16 strips of bacon
freshly cracked pepper
Preparation
Preheat oven to 400ºF.
Line a full size baking sheet with parchment paper.
Prepare the asparagus by taking the end of the asparagus between your thumb and forefinger and bend at about 1/4 of the way up from the bottom until it snaps. Discard the bottom (or save it for soup stock). Lay the trimmed piece next to the remaining asparagus on a cutting board with the tops of the asparagus aligned evenly. Cut off the woody end of the asparagus so they are all uniform and roughly the same size with the one you snapped off earlier.
Wrap each asparagus spear with one piece of bacon spiraling around each spear and place them single layer on the lined baking sheet.
Season with freshly cracked pepper.
Bake for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, you can make a couple of mimosas for you and your mother or fry a few eggs sunny side up.
After the bacon is crispy and the tops of the asparagus looks charred, serve immediately with that fried egg you made earlier and some fresh fruit.