It’s a very versatile recipe and these prosciutto crisps can be served in many ways: as a snack, for breakfast with eggs, crumbled in salads, soups, or pasta dishes.
Key Ingredients
How to Make crispy prosciutto
Step 1. Preheat oven to 375F degrees. Line baking sheets with unbleached parchment paper. Open the prosciutto package and start carefully laying prosciutto pieces on the baking pan. The slices might have a plastic divider in between; carefully remove it without breaking the meat.
Step 2. Bake for 10-12 minutes on the middle rack. Once baked, let it rest for 10 minutes. The prosciutto slices will become more crispy.
Tips For Success
It’s important to ensure that pieces of meat don’t touch when baking. Use two baking pans if cooking more prosciutto slices.
Keep an eye on prosciutto while it’s is baking. Each oven bakes differently; you want to ensure that meat is not getting burned.
The prosciutto slices will start curling when cooked.
Leave baked prosciutto to rest for 10 minutes; it will become crispy.
Best ways to use Crispy Proscuitto: use in sandwiches, including egg sandwiches, crumble in salads or soups, top pasta dishes
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is prosciutto?
Proscuitto is a kind of meat often imported from Parma, Italy. It’s uncooked, dry-cured meat made from porks legs.
Prosciutto vs bacon
Since prosciutto is made from the leaner part of the pig, leg, it has less fat content compared to bacon.
does prosciutto need to be cooked?
No, prosciutto can be eaten uncooked since it goes through the dry-curing process.
Preheat oven to 375F degrees. Line baking sheets with unbleached parchment paper. Open the prosciutto package and start carefully laying prosciutto pieces on the baking pan. The slices might have a plastic divider in between; carefully remove it without breaking the meat.
Bake for 10-12 minutes on the middle rack. Once baked, let it rest for 10 minutes. The prosciutto slices will become more crispy.
Notes
It’s important to ensure that pieces of meat don’t touch when baking. Use two baking pans if cooking more prosciutto slices.Keep an eye on prosciutto while it’s is baking. Each oven bakes differently; you want to ensure that meat is not getting burned. The prosciutto slices will start curling when cooked.Leave baked prosciutto to rest for 10 minutes; it will become crispy.Best ways to use crispy Proscuitto: use in sandwiches, including egg sandwiches, crumble in salads or soups, top pasta dishes
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