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Peppered Strawberry Sundae with Candied Pecans and Bacon


  • Author: The Kilted Chef

Ingredients

Units Scale
  • 1 pint of fresh Strawberries
  • Juice of 1/2 Orange
  • 2 Tablespoons butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 1/2 oz. rum
  • 50 Turns of the pepper mill
  • 1 1/2 cups cubed bacon lardon
  • 1 cup pecans
  • 1/4 cup maple syrup
  • vanilla ice cream of your choice

Instructions

  1. Remove the hulls from the strawberries. Cut the berries in half.
  2. In a skillet, melt the butter.
  3. Add sugar and stir constantly until the sugar is a nice caramel color.
  4. Add the juice of the orange.
  5. Add Strawberries and let simmer in syrup for a few minutes.
  6. Add the rum and allow the alcohol to cook off.
  7. Add fresh ground pepper; about 50 turns (don’t be shy!)
  8. Place the bacon into a heated sauté pan, add the pecans and the maple syrup and cook until sticky, spread onto parchment paper, separating the pecans, cool.
  9. Place 2 scoops of ice cream into a sundae dish, top with the peppered strawberry sauce and the pecan bacon crumble.

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