Breakfast baps with coffee-maple bacon
Serves: 4
Prep time: 20 minsTotal time: 
Recipe photograph by Stuart West
Breakfast baps with coffee-maple bacon
Adding a splash of coffee to a classic maple syrup glaze gives a deep smokiness to the bacon. Grilled until caramelised and sticky, it’s the perfect salty-sweet addition to a fried egg breakfast bap
Serves: 4
Prep time: 20 minsTotal time: 
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Nutritional information (per serving)
Calories
506Kcal
Fat
31gr
Saturates
12gr
Carbs
33gr
Sugars
10gr
Fibre
1gr
Protein
22gr
Salt
2.6gr
Sarah Akhurst
Our Food Director Sarah is a food obsessive, and spends most of her time scoping out the latest food trends, experimenting in her own kitchen, or making her family wait to eat while she photographs every dinner she makes for the 'gram! A complete Middle Eastern food junkie, she is never far from a good shawarma marinade, a pinch of Aleppo chilli or a sprig of dill
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Sarah Akhurst
Our Food Director Sarah is a food obsessive, and spends most of her time scoping out the latest food trends, experimenting in her own kitchen, or making her family wait to eat while she photographs every dinner she makes for the 'gram! A complete Middle Eastern food junkie, she is never far from a good shawarma marinade, a pinch of Aleppo chilli or a sprig of dill
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Ingredients
- 4 part-baked ciabatta rolls
- 3 tbsp strong brewed coffee
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp dark brown sugar
- 1 x 220g pack Taste the Difference unsmoked streaky bacon
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 4 medium eggs
- 40g soft butter
Step by step
- Preheat the oven to 200°C, fan 180°C, gas 6. Bake the rolls for 8-10 minutes until crisp and golden.
- Meanwhile, heat the grill to medium-high. Combine the coffee, maple syrup and sugar and season with black pepper. Line the grill tray with foil, lay out the bacon rashers and brush all over with about half of the coffee mixture. Grill for 3-4 minutes then turn the rashers over, brush with the remaining coffee mixture and grill for another 2-3 minutes until starting to caramelise. Remove from the grill and brush the syrupy residue left in the tray over the bacon.
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Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large frying pan and fry the eggs for 3-4 minutes until the white is set. Flip for the final minute if you want over-easy eggs. Butter the rolls and fill each with a fried egg and some of the coffee bacon.TipIf you’re a fan of American-style breakfasts, the coffee-maple bacon would also work brilliantly on a stack of fluffy pancakes.
