Bacon For Chicken Schnitzel

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Nigella's Chicken Schnitzel With Bacon And White Wine (from NIGELLA EXPRESS) serves up pan fried escalopes of chicken with crisp bacon and an easy pan sauce. The bacon is streaky bacon as this has more fat than back bacon and the rendered bacon fat is used to cook the chicken, adding flavour along the way.

The recipe doesn't specify whether to use smoked or unsmoked bacon as you can use whichever you prefer or have available. Smoked bacon has a slightly stronger flavour so if you want a slightly more assertive sauce then you can use that, but both types of bacon can be used. Bacon is also quite salty, so do taste the sauce before you add any extra seasoning as it may not be needed.