Anne Burrell's Apple, Cheddar and Bacon Crostini | Secrets of a Restaurant Chef | Food Network

Anne hits the perfect crisp, creamy and salty notes with her crostini topped with thinly sliced apples, cheddar cheese, bacon and wilted dandelion greens!
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Honeycrisp Apple, Cheddar, Bacon and Dandelion Crostini
RECIPE COURTESY OF ANNE BURRELL
Level: Easy
Total: 30 min
Prep: 10 min
Cook: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

Extra-virgin olive oil
8 strips thick-cut bacon
4 slices French boule
2 Honeycrisp apples, sliced thin on a mandoline
1 cup grated sharp artisanal Cheddar, such as Tillamook
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
2 cups dandelion greens, sliced into 1/2-inch ribbons
Kosher salt

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Add about 1 tablespoon olive oil to a large saute pan. Lay the bacon strips in the pan and bring the pan to a medium heat. Cook the bacon until browned and crisp. Drain the bacon on paper towels. DO NOT ditch the bacon fat. Reserve it for finishing the crostini.

Toast the bread slices lightly on both sides in the oven. Remove the toast from the oven and arrange a thin layer of the sliced apples on each toast. Top the apples with the cheese and return the toasts to the oven. Bake the crostini until the cheese starts to melt and get bubbly, 5 to 7 minutes.

Place 2 bacon strips on each crostino and return to the oven for 1 to 2 minutes.

While the crostini are doing their final toast, ditch about half the bacon fat. Heat the remaining bacon fat in the pan and whisk in the vinegar. Turn the heat off and toss in the dandelion greens, season with salt and stir to coat the greens with the vinaigrette.

Remove the crostini from the oven, cut the bread in half and then top with the wilted dandelion greens.

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Anne Burrell's Apple, Cheddar and Bacon Crostini | Secrets of a Restaurant Chef | Food Network
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