Fried cabbage with bacon and onion recipe

How to keep bacon crispy

To keep your bacon chewy, crispy, and delicious in this recipe but still give the dish tons of bacon flavor, it’s essential to keep it crisp and then remove it to the side while the cabbage cooks.

If you add bacon to the pan and leave it in, it can become soft and soggy, harder to eat, and, frankly, less flavorful.

Make sure to just leave bacon grease in the pan after you remove it so that you can get all that smoky, meaty flavor instilled in your cabbage while you cook it!

Add the bacon to the pan after much of the cabbage’s moisture has cooked out, or it will absorb the water from the cabbage.