Sometimes you just need want to wrap everything in bacon, fry it up, plop down on the couch with Netfilx and call it a day..right?!….RIGHT!
That kind of day was the inspiration for this little snack, and by ‘little snack’, I mean..uh, not little at all..haha! There’s really nothing small about bacon or cheese, especially when you put them together and uhhh..fry them, but sometimes you just have to do it!
~And I did.
Each melty mozzarella stick is perfectly balanced with the smoky, crispy bacon that hugs it like it’s never going to let it go. 🙂
~Make a big batch of these babies and get that remote ready~ : )
What you’ll need:
1 lb. bacon..2 slices per mozzarella stick!
approx. 6 mozzarella cheese sticks
oil for frying..I used Canola
toothpicks
Ranch for dipping…or any dippers you’d like!
Directions:
The first thing you need to do is FREEZE the CHEESE. 🙂 At least for a few hours!
Lay out a slice of bacon, and place a frozen cheese stick onto it..pulling up the bacon ends to cover each end of the cheese…
Now wrap another slice of bacon around the cheese stick, using it to secure the first bacon slice. Use a toothpick to secure the bacon while frying!
Fry them up in hot (350 degree) oil, until they’re crispy and golden, let them cool on some paper towel.
Serve them with some ranch for dipping! And DIG IN! ~Enjoy!! 🙂
How do I know if the inside piece of bacon is cooked well enough? The inside piece was still soft & rubbery. Thank you.
Would you really need to fry these in oil? Don’t you have enough grease from the bacon?
Great recipe. We added a slice of roasted green chili before wrapping with the bacon. That really added to the flavor.
What an amazing idea… thank you!! 🙂
i love bacon and so dose my family i love will love this
it looks good. (:
Thank you.. hope you enjoy it! 🙂
Is there a way to make them in an air fryer?
I haven’t done it, but I think it’d be worth a try! 🙂
Can you do it without the cheese sticks being frozen?
You can but most of the cheese will melt out while you are frying them. Freezing the cheese makes it take longer for it to melt so your bacon is cooked before the cheese all melts out.
nope it would melt too fast
You can par cook the bacon, just to render some of the fat, then wrap the frozen cheese. I par cook bacon when I make stuffed jalepenos.
This is BRILLIANT! Thank you! 🙂
Can these be air fried?
If so, what directions?
I’m new to air frying.
I haven’t tried air frying them, not sure if it would work, but might be worth a try 🙂
That’s what I was thinking.