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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By wrkenzie
on February 15, 2012
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One of the best appetizers I've ever had. The flavors are incredible. You take a bite and there are so many different flavors that compliment each other so well. Get the dandelion greens. You'll like what they add to the dish.
By devildogrn
San Diego, CA
on February 06, 2012
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I made it exactly as specified in the recipe and it was AWESOME! The different components compliment one another perfectly.........it was almost good enough to eat alone!!!
By odie101
Pekin, Il
on February 05, 2012
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We saw this on Super Bowl morning. It sounded amazing. Didn't have everything in our pantry, so we had to punt. I didn't have dandelion greens, so I used a pastry brush to put a touch of apple cider vinegar on my bread before building the crotini. I used Granny Smith apples and an amazing Carr Valley applewood smoked cheddar. I made a triple batch, and it was gone before the end of the first quarter. This is an instant hit, and I will make this time and time again. Anne you rock!
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