When you need a delicious and easy side dish, this Garlic Bacon Rice is perfect.With crispy bacon, plenty of mellow garlic, and fluffy white rice, your whole family will love this super simple side dish that works with so many different meals.If you want to know how to cook rice with flavor, then look no further, this dish is yummy enough that you can eat it on its own!Serve this flavored white rice with some creamy chicken, grilled chicken, seared steak, or top with a fried egg for a different brunch idea!Garlic, bacon, and carbs is a tried and tested flavor combination that just works!!! My Garlic Bacon Pasta is one of the most popular recipes on my blog, and I know why…..bacon!!! It just makes things taste better.So let’s talk bacon!I ALWAYS have bacon in my refrigerator; it keeps for ages and adds so much flavor to a dish! Most of the time, I have the basic grocery store bacon, and it is perfectly good enough.It lets off enough fat, so you have some bacon grease to add flavor.

And that bacon grease/fat is the key to this rice.Please don’t use the bacon eye or the bacon rounds here (or worse yet! Turkey bacon!!) Well you can, I am not going to be the food police! If that is what works for you, then go for it But the bacon with some fat on it is what is going to give you the best side dish! Like I say in my Seared Scallops and Bacon Pasta, getting the bacon crispy and releasing all the fats is what makes the sauce taste so good! And the same is valid here.The delic

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