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Are you a sports fan? With the Super Bowl coming up, it is great to have some quick to prepare yet tasty finger foods at hand -- especially for those who have to prepare an assortment of them. 🙂 This year, we will be celebrating this event with something both different and familiar: easy, four-ingredient Palm Heart Bacon Bites (or Espetinho de Palmito com Bacon)!! Excited?
If you have never had the chance to try hearts of palm -- a healthy, nutritious, low carb Southern American vegetable, this is your chance. It is available canned in Latin markets across America, and also in the Latin aisle of a few American supermarkets. Of course, fingerling or baby potatoes, baby carrots, bite-sized celery stalks, asparagus, and pineapple would be suitable substitutions -- although naturally their flavor and texture are not the same as the hearts of palm. I am a fan of hearts of palm-- and so is my American hubby!
How about bacon? It needs no introduction, right? 🙂 Farmland® bacon is one of our family's favorite -- especially my husband's. It is slow smoked over real hardwoods for maximum flavor, making a difference in every bite. Because you can never have too much bacon, we used the thick cut in our palm heart bacon bites! 😉
The fibrous, mildly sour hearts of palm contrast well with the meaty, smoked bacon, resulting in an unforgettable bite. My husband can talk about this better than anyone else. The Super Bowl is about 10 days away... and his contagious excitement about our bacon bites made me cook them already twice within one week. Now is that what you call a favorite or what?
For other tasty recipes, click here. Enjoy our bacon bites and have a fun Super Bowl!!!
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Palm Heart Bacon Bites
Ingredients
- 5 strips Farmland® Naturally Hickory Smoked Thick Cut Bacon sliced in half
- 5 hearts of palm sliced in half crosswise (i.e. cutting the long cylinder into two smaller cylinders)
- Fresh thyme to sprinkle optional
- ½ cup store-bought pesto sauce or homemade chimichurri sauce
Instructions
- Roll half strip of bacon over half heart of palm. Stick a toothpick all the way through to hold the bacon around the heart of palm. Place palm heart bacon bites onto a sheet pan lined with aluminum foil.
- Bake at 375 degrees F for about 20-25 minutes or until bacon is brown and crispy. Serve hot with pesto or chimichurri sauce on the side. Bacon bites can be accompanied by beer or guaraná soda.
Recipe Notes
2. Chimichurri sauce is the South American pesto made from parsley.
Nutrition
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francesca says
Haven't had hearts of palm in ages! ahh, bacon makes everything delectable 🙂
Karen (Back Road Journal) says
I love hearts of palm in salads and can just imagine how good this little bites are.
Little Cooking Tips says
Looks great, but unfortunately this one we cant' try. Palm heart isn't sold here. Mildly sour and fibrous.Hmmm...could we use perhaps pieces of artichoke? Is there any resemblance in texture?:)
Beautiful photography(as always), made us drool over the keyboard:)
xoxoxoxo
Tiffany @ Triple Crème Decadence says
These sound magnificent! Hearts of palm is one of my favorite vegetables. Wrapping it in bacon is genius. I love the textures and flavors. Pinned!
Valentina Dimitrova says
Hi, Tiffany! Thank you very much. I hope you enjoy this easy appetizer...
Gourmet Getaways says
In the Philippines, the heart of palm is used in a savoury crepe as a filling.. It's very good. You made a really tasty partnership here with the bacon wrapping the heart of palm. We say YUM!
Julie & Alesah
Gourmet Getaways xx
Anna @ shenANNAgans says
These sound positively amazing. Bacon wrapped anything is amazing, I've never heard of palm hearts before, but shall check at my farmers markets for something similar to whip these beauties up next weekend. Having a picnic with friends, its my birthday. Yay! Hope you are having a lovely weekend.
Valentina Dimitrova says
Wishing you a very happy, fun birthday, Anna!
Chris @ The Café Sucré Farine says
Oh man, these look so... good. Just say the word "bacon" and you've got me hooked. I never thought of wrapping hearts of palm though. What a GREAT idea!
Ash-foodfashionparty says
Absolutely a nice way to pair them together. I am not a big game day fan but hey, I could cook some of this for others and we will all be enjoying. Lovely. Have a great weekend.
Valentina Dimitrova says
I like soccer but I can happily cook for any sports game. We too have a great week, Ash!!!!
Dedy@Dentist Chef says
i've been searching palm heart all ove but not that lucky to found one,
very curious about the taste and the texture!!!
Raymund says
I would love nibbling on these delicious appetizers