The best vegan bacon recipe you’ll try! Made from rice paper and a delicious marinade. Oven baked or pan-fried.

Soooo… this has been in the planning for quite some time and last Sunday it finally happened: MY FIRST RECIPE VIDEO FOR THE BEST VEGAN BACON RECIPE FINALLY WENT LIVE!

I am pretty excited to show you how I make vegan bacon – or “Facon” as I call it – in my first video. For months I have been planning around, getting new lighting equipment and trying to decide which recipe to film and upload first.

What you’ll need

Ingredients

The base:

Rice Paper: The base for this vegan bacon is made from rice paper. One it touches liquid it will become soft and stringy, which makes it perfect for the creation of vegan bacon.
oil for frying
water from the tap

For the marinade:

Tamari soy sauce (gluten-free)
smoked paprika powder
garlic powder
nutritional yeast
liquid smoke
ground pepper
maple syrup (or agave)

Equipment

bowl
whisk
non-stick frying pan
OR oven & on-stick baking paper

How to make vegan bacon

To make this delicious vegan bacon recipe, start by either pre-heating a little oil in a frying pan or pre-heat your oven to 180C.

Add all ingredients for the marinade to a medium size bowl and whisk them up to create the smokey & salty marinade for your vegan bacon. The marinade should be sufficient for about 8 regular size rice papers, but please adjust the amount of ingredients in case you want to make more!

Take each rice paper and hold it under the running tap water to wet it completely on both sides. Let any excess water drip off and place the paper down on a cutting board. Let it rest for 1 minute to soften, then fold up the rice paper into a ‘bacon’ strip. You can decide how big you want your bacon strip to be, but I’d recommend folding it at least 3 times to create a thicker, multi-layer vegan bacon.

Gently drop the strip of facon into the marinade until marinade is stuff to all surfaces of the facon. Allow any excess to drip off, then place your facon into the frying pan or onto a greased baking tray. Let it cook for 2-3 minutes on a medium heat, or until the edges begin to crisp up, then flip the vegan bacon in the pan.

If you’re oven baking your facon, then flip it after 8 minutes and cook it for a further 4 minutes on the other side.

Repeat with the rest of your rice papers, but make sure not to overcrowd your pan, otherwise they might get stuck together.

Variations for the best vegan bacon recipe

Oven baked or pan-fried

You can prepare this vegan bacon recipe either in a greased non-stick frying pan or on a greased oven tray with non-stick baking parchment.

Both methods will bring out slightly different results. When pan-frying you will need to utilise oil in your pan, to ensure the facon does not get stuck to it. When it’s oven baked on a silicone mat, you can entirely omit oil and the facon will come out more dry and crispy than in the pan-fried version.

Below you can see some examples of pan-fried vegan bacon at the top, and oven-baked at the bottom. Whichever you will pick is down to your personal preference.

Watch the full recipe video here:

This best vegan bacon recipe is:

100% vegan
gluten-free
simply delicious
crunchy & stringy
salty & sweet
perfect on their own, alongside breakfast or in a sandwich
great pan-fried and oven-baked