Bacon Wrapped Asparagus

Easy Bacon Wrapped Asparagus Recipe – even picky eaters love this crave-worthy asparagus wrapped in bacon and bursting with flavor!

At Avdaye, we add lots of tips in all of our recipes – because we are a home cook without any formal training, and we find we are more confident making dishes when we understand why it works, and what each ingredient means to the flavor of a recipe. Our goal is for even the most beginner home cook to feel empowered in the kitchen.

Good Bacon ASparagus

If you love bacon and asparagus, you can LOVE this easy and crazy good side dish – even picky eaters love eating all their veggies when there is bacon!

This dish is a tasty appetizer, side dish, or even a light meal – all in one!

We love serving this asparagus with pork tenderlointri tipgarlicky chicken thighsranch baked chickenchicken drumsticksand baked pork chops!

This side dish is also suited to a keto or low carb diet – to see our complete keto diet recipe collection, please click here.

How to Clean Asparagus

One of the biggest parts of making asparagus is properly cleaning and trimming them.

Asparagus can have some grit, so it's important to rinse stalks thoroughly before cooking.

We load up a big bowl of cold water and plop asparagus in, dunking it a few times, and letting any silt fall to the bottom of the bowl – then remove your clean stalks.

How to Trim Asparagus

Pat asparagus completely dry – with a paper towel or kitchen towel – before prepping this recipe.

To trim asparagus, we grab a stalk and lightly bend into a horseshoe shape.

Asparagus should snap above the woody base. We then lay the snapped asparagus down next to the rest of the bunch, and cut off the base of the asparagus in the same spot.

You can also eyeball this – trim off the bottom 1-2″ depending on the size of your stalks.

Thicker stalks will need more trimmed off to be sure you're not preparing the tough, woody, and stringy base.

Thin stalks tend to not be as tough, so you'll cut less.

Other Vegetable Dishes You'll Love

If you love this easy asparagus recipe, please visit some of our other good asparagus dishes – favorites like The Best Easy Oven Roasted Asparagus Garlic Parmesan AsparagusPan Fried Asparagusand Homemade Condensed Cream of Asparagus Soup!

We're also spotlighting some of our favorite vegetable based sides below:

To see our complete vegetable side dish recipe index, please click here. Our complete side dish page can be found here.

A few answers

How long can we store leftover asparagus?

This recipe can be stored for up to four days in an airtight container in the refrigerator. We do not recommend freezing, as asparagus tends to get overly mushy when thawing.

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Ingredients

• 1 ½ lbs asparagus, with the ends snapped off
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• ½ tsp sea salt
• ½ tsp black pepper, fresh ground
• 6 slices bacon

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and line a 9×13 baking pan with aluminum foil and set aside.
2. Add the asparagus to a large bowl and drizzle the olive oil, salt and pepper over the asparagus and toss to coat.
3. Divide the asparagus into 6 bunches then wrap each bunch in a slice of bacon.
4. Place them evenly on the pan and bake for 45-50 minutes, or until the bacon is cooked through and the asparagus has cooked down then serve.