This is an unbelievably easy recipe that’s perfect for weekend barbecues or a weeknight side dish!
Bacon Wrapped Asparagus
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Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
- 1 bundle fresh young asparagus stalks
- 1 lb bacon
- 2 Tbs extra virgin olive oil
- fresh ground sea salt & pepper, to taste
- (yes, that's all!)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Rinse asparagus and trim bottom ½” from stalks
- Separate asparagus spears into bundles of two to three
- Starting from bottom, wrap a piece of bacon tightly around spears - you'll end about halfway - then add another slice and continue wrapping, leaving tip of spears visible.
- Repeat with remaining bundles
- Place on a baking sheet
- Drizzle olive oil over bundles and sprinkle with pepper to taste
- Bake in preheated oven about 15 minutes, then turn on broiler and broil for 5 minutes, or until bacon is as crisp as you like.
- ** Can also be prepared on the BBQ!
OMG, these look amazing. I am going to try these tonight on the barbeque. Thanks for sharing. I have a feeling you just made my kids very happy!!
That look so good. Will have to try it.
thanks for the great recipe – and our local asparagus will be here soon.
Aack – these look so good. i shouldn’t have looked – i haven’t eaten dinner yet and now i’m super starving (and salivating)!
eeeks, oh dear these look delish
looks so good – going to put this on the grill tonight!
They were super yummy!
Wow! I love asparagus and never would have thought to wrap it in bacon. Thank you sooo much for this recipe 🙂
Pinned – thanks for the idea.
You’re right, this is an easy and yummy recipe. My husband makes it once in a while and it’s always eaten right up.
This look delicious, I try something similar with green beans.
This is now one of our favourite things to make on the bbq!
Yum! I have these in the oven tonight! Found your site on pinterest. 🙂
I’ve tried this and its amazing. I also like it wrapped in prosciutto
This was wonderful. I used some dried rosemary and garlic salt, with the salt and pepper. We grilled them also. So tasty!
Oh that sounds divine!
Can’t wait to try this tonight!!
These would be such a treat! Even veggie haters would eat this! I’ll have to give this a try.
Looks delicious!!
I have never done bacon-wrapped asparagus and it is going to be tried asap!
Love both asparagus and bacon (who doesn’t like bacon I ask?) Thanks for sharing this simple yet delicious recipes.
I love bacon and I love asparagus, this recipe fits the bill!
So delicious! I can’t believe we’ve never tried this in our home before! Everything’s better with bacon 🙂
got to love anything bacon wrapped! Never thought to do aspargus! thanks for the inspiration!
I’ve made these and I can’t believe how fast these went….next time I’ll share! 😉
Good recipe! In the past, I always used asaparagus and cheese wrapped in prosciutto.