Baked radicchio with bacon is an easy and delicious side dish to make. The late radicchio from Treviso is perfect for this dish, you can use smoked bacon or fresh rolled or flat bacon. Here in Veneto, it’s a popular side dish throughout the winter when radicchio reigns supreme. I enriched the radicchio and bacon with some cheese; you can use mozzarella, scamorza, Asiago, or even grated cheese. I recommend checking out other dishes from Venetian cuisine and other recipes with TREVISO RADICCHIO, I’m sure you’ll find more dishes to try. Now let’s see how to prepare baked radicchio with bacon and let me know if you try it. Barbara
I also recommend trying these recipes with radicchio:
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Economical
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Autumn, Winter
Ingredients
- 8 heads Treviso red radicchio IGP, late
- 5.3 oz bacon
- to taste pepper
- 3.5 oz cheese
How to make baked radicchio with bacon
Let’s start preparing baked radicchio with bacon. Clean the radicchio, remove the damaged outer leaves, and wash it thoroughly under running water.
Remove the final part of the root and cut each head in half, and if it is large, cut each half into two parts.
Wrap the radicchio with one or two slices of bacon depending on the size and place the radicchio with bacon in the baking tray.
Cut the cheese into small pieces or grate it with a coarse grater and place it on top of the bacon. Sprinkle with pepper and add a drizzle of oil on the leaves; you can also brush them, this way they will not dry out too much.
Bake in a preheated static oven at 355°F for 20 minutes. If you see it getting too dry, cover the tray with aluminum foil.
When cooked, take it out of the oven and serve it hot.
How to store baked radicchio with bacon
Store it in the fridge for 2/3 days
