Bacon Waffles
Make these to serve with maple syrup or add poached eggs for a decadent breakfast
Makes enough for: 4 people
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 200 g buttermilk
- 56 g butter, melted and slightly cooled
- 5 mls vanilla extract
- 103 g flour
- 5 mls baking powder
- 2.5 mls bicarbonate of soda
- 2.5 mls fine salt
- 4 rashers shoulder bacon, cut into bite size pieces **
- maple syrup to serve
Method
- Crack the egg into a mixing bowl and whisk to slacken
- Add the buttermilk, butter and vanilla and whisk to combine
- Place the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a mixing bowl
- Whisk to combine then slowly pour into the buttermilk mixture until just combined
- Spray your waffle iron with cooking spray and then turn it on to heat
- Fry the bacon until just cooked and set aside
- Pour in enough batter to make one plump waffle *, scatter some of the bacon through the mixture ** and cook to the manufacturer's instructions, until golden brown
- Serve with maple syrup
Notes
* this depends on the size of your machine. I have a standard waffle maker that takes about 120 mls of batter and I made 4 waffles.
** if you are making 2 waffles be quite generous, or use more bacon if you want to.