Pork, Bacon, Goat Cheese and Fig Roulade. Stuff fig halves with goat cheese. Wrap each stuffed fig half with half a slice of bacon, securing with toothpicks. Arrange on a medium baking sheet.
I haven't bacon wrapped anything in a while and I was feeling a bit deprived of the delicious meat.
So, I decided to just go on a binge with it - pork wrapped pork with cream cheese, spinach, onion, and garlic.
The aged goat cheese called for in this recipe is firmer than fresh and has a dry rind.
You can cook Pork, Bacon, Goat Cheese and Fig Roulade using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Pork, Bacon, Goat Cheese and Fig Roulade
- 🢂 1 of Pork tenderloin or chicken cutlets.
- 🢂 1 cup of Bacon - cooked crisp and diced (amend amount depending on size of "log roll").
- 🢂 1 cup of Sliced figs (amend amount depending on size of "log roll").
- 🢂 1 cup of Goat cheese crumbles (amend amount depending on size of "log roll").
- 🢂 3 slice of Butcher string.
- 🢂 2 tbsp of Olive oil.
Two of the kinds that work best in this dish are Bucheron and Pouligny-St. Pierre, both have just They have a little bit of sweet from the fig, some tang from the cheese, and salt from the bacon. This Bacon Wrapped Fig number will be your go to. In fact, I'm bringing them this weekend to a ladies Christmas Party we're having for church.
step by step Pork, Bacon, Goat Cheese and Fig Roulade
- Pound out the tenderloin by placing in between wax paper and flatten using a meat mallet, set aside..
- Brown bacon on stove top until very cris,p but not burnt. Let cool, then dice into small pieces. Set aside..
- Clean and slice figs into small pieces, set aside..
- Lay tenderloin out flat on the counter and sprinkle goat cheese crumbles, bacon pieces and figs on top. Roll the tenderloin in a pinwheel manner; to create a "log roll". Secure the "roll" by tying with butcher string in 3 to 4 sections about 2-3 inches apart..
- Put olive oil in skillet and heat. Brown the outside of "roll" by turning frequently in the skillet on the stove top..
- Preheat oven to 400?F and prepare oven safe dish by spraying lightly with Pam Cooking Spray.
- Once "roll" is browned on all sides in oven safe dish which has been coated lightly with PAM, place in oven until cooked..
- Once I figure out a good low calorie sauce, I'll add that. Adding spinach would add moisture and color but I didn't have any today..
I absolutely love figs so I went that route and stuffed them with a homemade herb goat cheese mixture. Y'all they are like bacon candy! Keywords: bacon wrapped dates, goat cheese dates, bacon and goat cheese, date recipe. These remind me of one of my favorite tapas! You really can't go wrong with sweet, sticky dates, creamy goat cheese and bacon — pretty much the dream team of ingredients….
