Cheesy Bacon Biscuits & Cooking Healthy with Bacon Fat

​If you scour the internet or Pinterest for biscuits, you'll find dozens of recipes similar to this one made using coconut flour.  One important addition I like to add sometimes is bacon!  

I use both bacon bits and healthy bacon fat in the recipe.  YUM!!!  These are also great to use as hamburger buns if you just press them down flat before baking. DOUBLE YUM!!!
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Cheesy Bacon Biscuits

Ingredients:

• 6 pastured eggs 
• 1/4 cup bacon grease or grassfed butter/ghee   (Melted, and slightly cooled)
• 1 cup shredded cheese, sharp cheddar (preferably raw) (Read my post about Raw dairy)
• 1/4 tsp. sea salt
• 1/4 tsp. onion powder
• 1/4 tsp. garlic powder
• 1/2 cup + 2 Tbsp. coconut flour (Try Tropical Traditions)
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• Optional: 4 slices of crunchy bacon, crumbled
• Herb seasoning of your choice

(Cheesy Bacon Biscuits, before flattening.)

Directions:

1. Blend eggs, bacon grease, and cheese. 
2. Combine coconut flour with baking powder, salt, onion powder, garlic powder.
3. Combine wet & dry ingredients until uniformly mixed.
4. Stir in the bacon bits.
5. Drop batter by muffin scoop onto cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a Non-stick silpat.   
6. Flatten slightly with the side of a butter knife or spatula, if desired or for burger buns.
7. Sprinkle with herb seasonings.
8. Bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes.

Makes 9 biscuits.

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​For the Love of Bacon!

​If you're saying to yourself, "I thought this was a holistic health website", never fear, you're still correct.  Yes, bacon is a processed meat, however, bacon and its fat can be a part of a healthy diet when eaten occasionally - when it comes from a healthy pig who was pasture raised on a sustainable farm, allowed to live and roam in the sunshine, and fed an omnivorous diet (not GMO grain feed).  Ideally your bacon comes from a local, trusted source.  If you must buy it in the grocery store, I like the uncured types and better quality brands like Applegate, or the equivalent.

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U.S. Wellness Meats is a great source of mail order meats, including gourmet pastured pork products.  

Bacon fat is approximately: 

• 50% monounsaturated fats (the same heart-healthy fat that contains oleic acid* found in olive oil, avocado, and macadamia nuts),
• 40% saturated fats (which we now know can be healthy and are great for high heat cooking), and 
• 10% polyunsaturated fats (these are mostly the Omega 6 fats you don't want to eat in large amounts, in comparison to Omega 3 fats) .

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*See a study about oleic acid HERE and it's beneficial effects on blood pressure.

According to The Weston A. Price Foundation, in their super interesting article, Save Your Bacon! Sizzling Bits about Nitrites, Dirty Little Secrets about Celery Salt and Other Aporkalyptic News:

"Pork fat also contains a novel form of phosophatidyl choline that possesses antioxidant activity superior to Vitamin E.   This may be one reason why lard and bacon fat are relatively stable and unprone to rancidity from free radicals."

"Bacon fat from pastured pigs also comes replete with fat-soluble vitamin D, provided it’s bacon from foraging pigs that romp outdoors in the sun for most of year."

For a rather in depth conversation all about eating bacon and it's fats, read the article by Dianne SanFilippo, Bacon: Health Food or Devil in Delicious Disguise?  It also contains a nice segment on nitrates, which may not be as worrisome after all.  The greatest source of natural, dietary nitrates is from green vegetables!  In fact, dietary nitrates may also be converted within the body to Nitric Oxide, which is associated with benefits to cardiovascular health!

To store your bacon drippings, keep them in a closed container in the refrigerator. Some folks store it on the kitchen counter, but that's not a good idea, because it's more likely to oxidize or go rancid.  Also, to prevent oxidation of the fat due to heating, do not use the drippings more than once.

As long as your bacon is from a healthy source, feel free to try using the bacon fat in any of my other recipes that call for melted butter, ghee, coconut oil, or avocado oil.  Ooooh baby!
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