I made double this recipe, and had about a 250g hunk of side bacon. With the fat mainly trimmed more like 200g. I'd say don't use less than that, maybe use more. I sprinkled it with hemp seeds which were nice but sesame would do just as well. Maybe toast them first.
Yogurt Cake with Bacon:
3/4 cup plain yogurt
2 tbsp sugar (still using dark brown sugar)
3 large eggs
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup cornmeal
2 tsps baking powder
seasonings to taste (onion and garlic powders, salt, chili, curry, pepper, whatever you like)
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 green pepper, chopped
1/4 red pepper, chopped
1/2 or 1 green onion, chopped
a hunk of bacon, trimmed and cubed (100g-200g)
hemp or sesame seeds
Preheat oven to 350ºF. Butter whatever sort of pan or tin you want to use (like a 9-inch round cake pan which I've never used). In a large bowl, whisk together yogurt and sugar, then whisk in eggs. Add flour, cornmeal, baking powder and seasonings, mixing just until fully incorporated. Add the oil and mix thoroughly, then add the peppers and onion. Fry the bacon a bit to brown it slightly and reduce some of the fat, then add it too and pour batter into pan. Toast seeds (or not) and sprinkle. Bake at 350ºF for 30-35 minutes or until lightly golden and toothpick comes out clean. (For mini muffin tins I find 10 minutes does the trick, for regular muffins 20 minutes and for jumbo muffins or mini loaves about 25 minutes, while a whole loaf pan requires more like... 50? I'm not sure, I just keep giving it another five or ten minutes until its done.)
Next time: I wonder what would happen if I used cottage cheese or something instead of yogurt.
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