Bacon Chipotle Parmesan Crisps are a tasty, addictive snack or appetizer, and brain dead simple to make. A guaranteed hit!
Bacon Chipotle Parmesan Crisps are tasty, crispy, addictive, and oh-so-easy to make. It takes just two ingredients – no kidding. The secret is very simple – really good shredded parmesan cheese, and McCormick Grill Mates Bacon Chipotle seasoning. That’s it … except you have to bake it, for all of 5 minutes. I also like using the BelGioioso Parmesan Romano from Costco – perfect texture for this.
A few weeks ago, I published Green Chile Parmesan Crisps – another simple recipe that’s just baked parmesan cheese combined with green chiles. This is a variation that combines the parmesan cheese with bacon chipotle, a great tasting version. Once you make these, it’s so tempting to start experimenting. I tried all different types of seasonings: dark chili powder, Frank’s Red Hot Seasoning, smoked paprika, cumin, garlic powder, and more. Here’s what I found:
Parmesan cheese is salty. Seasonings that have significant salt can make it too salty. Now, the Bacon Chipotle seasoning is salty – but the smoky bacon flavor was so good it didn’t matter to me. The Frank’s Red Hot was also very good even though it was salty. I thought the dark chili powder was too salty. Smoked paprika was pretty good, but it takes a generous sprinkling to really taste it. The garlic powder and the cumin were barely detectable; I might try this again and go very heavy on the seasoning.
If you’re up for it, make up some of your own variations and share them with me. The possibilities are endless here.
- 1 cup grated parmesan cheese
- McCormick Grill Mates Bacon Chipotle Seasoning
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Lightly coat a nonstick cookie sheet with cooking spray.
- For each crisp, scoop 1 tbsp of parmesan cheese and place it on the cookie sheet with about 2 inches between each. Flatten each one so that they are about 3 inches in diameter. You'll be able to see the cookie sheet though small holes in each one.
- Sprinkle each crisp generously with the Bacon Chipotle Seasoning.
- Bake 4-5 minutes, keeping your eye on them and taking them out when they are brown around the edges and starting to brown toward the center.
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