Hickory Smoked Maple Glazed Bacon Wrapped Loin Recipes

SMOKED MAPLE SYRUP BACON

Steps:

• Pour water, sodium nitrate, curing salt, coarse salt, brown sugar, and maple syrup into a large kettle. Bring to a boil over high heat and cook for 10 to 15 minutes until everything is well dissolved. Pour brine into a 5 gallon plastic bucket and cool to room temperature, 6 to 8 hours.
• Leaving the skin on the pork belly, cut against the grain into 4 to 6 slabs so they fit inside the bucket, and inside your smoker. Place into the bucket of brine, and weigh down with a glass or ceramic dish to keep the pork submerged. Cover and refrigerate for 5 to 7 days, rearranging the pork in the brine daily.
• On smoking day, remove pork from the brine and rinse well under cold running water, rubbing to remove all external brine. Pat pieces dry and place onto smoker racks. Allow pork pieces to stand, preferably underneath a fan, until the surface of the meat becomes somewhat dried and notably glossy, 1 to 3 hours depending on air circulation.
• Smoke pork belly slabs using wood of your choice at a temperature of 90 to 110 degrees F (32 to 43 degrees C) for 8 to 12 hours. Remove rind before slicing.

BACON WRAPPED MAPLE GLAZED PORK LOIN RECIPE - (4.3/5)

Steps:

• Mix brown sugar, spicy brown mustard, soy sauce, worcestershire, and maple syrup. Remove the layer of fat on top of the pork with a sharp knife or most of it. Sprinkle it with salt, pepper and garlic salt. Pour the brown sugar glaze over the top. Wrap the pork with bacon slices covering it all. Drizzle the top with the maple syrup. Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour at 375 degrees. Remove foil and with a spoon re glaze the top with the drippings in the pan. Recover and cook for 30 more minutes. Uncover and re glaze again with the pan juices, you can drizzle with more syrup if you like now also. Cook uncovered until bacon is brown and crispy about 20 more minutes. Let it rest for about 5 to 10 minutes before slicing. This will be so tender and will slice in nice thin slices. You can put the pan juices over it after slicing or leave as it is. Make sure each portion has some of the sweet, crispy bacon with it...that's the best part to me!

BACON WRAPPED PORK TENDERLOIN WITH MAPLE BALSAMIC GLAZE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix thyme, rosemary, sugar and garlic together.
• Rub spices into pork.
• Wrap pork crosswise with bacon.
• Place in oven, cook 30 minutes.
• Brush pork with maple syrup and balsamic vinegar mixture.
• Continue to cook pork another 45-50 minutes, brushing with mixture every 15 minutes.
• Ler sit 15 minutes before carving.