Bacon and Tomato Hash

Bacon and tomatoes with a difference (Serves 2)

Babbled Intro:

One of our old favourites. This recipe was in Nigella’s ‘Feast’ book in the ‘back from the bar’ section although I think it makes the tastiest breakfast/brunch on it’s own or with some scrambled eggs. And everyone who has tried this has loved it. The requirements are that you 1) like bacon 2) like Worchester sauce – And if your answer is yes to both, then you’re onto a winner with this one. Who knew that with a few simple ingredients you could make such a taste explosion in such speed?

Ingredients: 

8 rashers of streaky bacon

4 tsps garlic infused olive oil

2 tomatoes, diced

4 tsps Worcestershire sauce

scattering of chopped parsley

ground black pepper

Method:

• Using clean kitchen scissors, cut the bacon into 4-5 pieces and fry in the oil until crispy.
• Tip in the chopped tomatoes with all their seeds and juices into the hot oily pan and stir for a couple of minutes.

• Add the Worcestershire sauce and stir again for a minute.
• Scatter with the parsley and lots of freshly ground pepper.

My conclusion / review.

Yum! Such a sweet, rich, satisfying dish. We had ours with toast so you can mop up the leftover juices but I’m sure fresh crusty bread would be even better. The first thing you may think is – this is a really small portion, I could eat double this. Well perhaps, but its quite rich so I think these portions are fine and as I say it could just be an accompaniment with scrambled eggs or other brunch/breakfast favourites if you wanted to make a meal out of it.

James's verdict:

"8/10 - this is great, but it never seems like you're getting that much back for the amount of bacon you put into it."