Bacon and kale pesto flatbreads
- Adam Bush
Published: January 12, 2021 at 4:11 PM
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Serves 2
Easy
Total time: 30 mins
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Make the most of surplus kale and bacon with this colourful flatbread recipe, made gently warm with cumin seeds. Pile on bacon and eggs, then top with chilli jam
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Try these bacon, kale and pesto flatbreads then check out our focaccia, tomato bread and Turkish pide plus more easy flatbread recipes and pizza recipes.
Whizzing the slightly tough and woody kale leaves into a pesto softens and tenderises them, and gives your pesto a deep nuttiness. Warming the flatbread gently in the bacon fat is a great way to enliven this leftover.
Ingredients
Nutrition
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50g pine nuts
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100g kale
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1 lemon
zested and ½ juiced
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1 clove garlic
skinned and chopped
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50g parmesan
finely grated
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100ml extra-virgin olive oil
plus extra for frying
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4 rashers streaky bacon
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2 eggs
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a large pinch cumin seeds
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1 large flatbread
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a few tbsp chilli jam
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal730
- fat59.2g
- saturates13.1g
- carbs19.8g
- sugars1.7g
- fibre3.2g
- protein27.9g
- salt2.2g
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Method
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step 1
To make the pesto, toast the pine nuts in a dry frying pan for 3-4 minutes, tossing regularly, until golden. Leave to cool for a few minutes, then tip into a food processor with the kale, the zest and juice of a lemon, the garlic, parmesan, oil and some seasoning. Whizz to a rough paste.
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step 2
Using the same pan, cook the bacon over a medium-high heat until really crisp, then remove onto a plate.
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step 3
Fry the eggs to your liking with a little more oil, then sprinkle with the cumin seeds for the final minute of cooking time. Put on the plate with the bacon.
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step 4
Put the flatbread in the pan over a low heat to gently warm through and soak up a little of the bacon fat. Spread over half of the kale pesto, then transfer the flatbread to a chopping board.
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step 5
Cut in half, then load up with the bacon and fried eggs, and dot over some chilli jam. Roll up and serve. The remaining kale pesto will keep chilled for a week – just pour a splash of oil over the top to cover.
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Adam BushDeputy food editor
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