Help adapting stove top recipe to oven

[crankin]

I have this recipe I want to make for cipollini onions & apples -

Cipollini and Apples with Bacon Recipe | MyRecipes.com

But I have a number of other dishes to prepare on the stove top and would prefer to roast this instead. What steps would you do or change?

For the sake of easiness I was wondering if this would work:

- Crisp the bacon on the stovetop and then remove from pan
- Add onions and cook for 2-3 minutes to brown, then add liquids, cover and roast until onions are halfway done
- Add apples and roast until they are done
- Add butter & thyme at the end

 

[Dawgluver]

You can cook your bacon in the oven too! I think the whole recipe can be done in the oven, roasted vegetables are so good that way.

 

[GotGarlic]

I agree with Dawg, except that I would cook the bacon on the stovetop, since you need the fat for the rest of the recipe, and I would stir it in at the end so it will stay crisp. The onions and apples will roast in about the same amount of time.

Also, I wouldn't cover it at all; that would be braising, not roasting, and the food won't brown. I think the liquid needs to reduce, too, and that won't happen in a covered dish.

 

[Dawgluver]

I agree with Dawg, except that I would cook the bacon on the stovetop, since you need the fat for the rest of the recipe, and I would stir it in at the end so it will stay crisp.

Unless you have a bacon fat can! I actually get plenty of rendered fat from baking the bacon, I put it on a bed of crumpled, then uncrumpled foil on a baking pan.

 

[Andy M.]

This can all be done in the oven. The recipe in the link seems overly fussy.

Heat the oven a high temperature - 450ºF or thereabouts. Cook the bacon in a low-sided pan and cook it to crispy. Remove the bacon and toss the rest of the stuff with the bacon fat to coat. Roast until done. Garnish with crispy bacon.

 

[GotGarlic]

Unless you have a bacon fat can! I actually get plenty of rendered fat from baking the bacon, I put it on a bed of crumpled, then uncrumpled foil on a baking sheet.

So do I I just wanted to clarify that I wouldn't cook the bacon in the dish with everything else and I wasn't sure she wanted to cook a bunch of bacon at one time.