Boiled Collar Of Bacon With Creamy Mustard Sauce Almost everyone I know likes his bacon smoked (no pun intended!) but trust the Irish to formulate a smashing recipe where the savoury potency of bacon and healthful tastiness of choice veggies memorably collide. What you end up with is a rich, flavoursome Belfast gravy that drips invitingly off succulent cuts of bacon...

Boiled Collar Of Bacon With Creamy Mustard Sauce

1 Kg Unsmoked bacon
1 Md Onion
2 Carrots
2 Celery sticks
1 Bay leaf
1 3/16 l Chicken stock
150 ml Double cream
70 g Butter, unsalted
1 t Brown mustard seeds
Seasoning

Yields 4 Servings.

Preparation:

Remove the rind from the bacon and roll the bacon. Roughly chop the onion, carrots and celery sticks. Make the chicken stock.

1. Soak the bacon in water for 24 hours prior to cooking to reduce salt content. Rinse well.

2. Place the bacon in a pan with the vegetables and bay leaf. Cover w ... Read more »