Crostini Trio

Ingredients

  • For the Crostini
  • One large French baguette, sliced into ½ inch rounds
  • ¼ cup olive oil
  • ¼ cup butter
  • Prime Rib and Creamy Horseradish Sauce Horseradish Crostini
  • ½ lb thinly shaved leftover prime rib or seared ribeye (very rare)
  • ¼ cup Kelchner's Creamy Horseradish Sauce
  • 1 cup baby arugula
  • ¼ packaged fried shallots (or French fried onions)
  • Brie and Honey Ginger Crostini
  • 4 oz Brie cheese
  • ¼ cup Kelchner's Honey Ginger Sauce
  • ¼ cup toasted pecans
  • 1 tsp shucked rosemary
  • Bacon and Caramelized Onion Jam Crostini
  • ½ lb bacon, diced
  • 2 large sweet onions, thinly sliced
  • 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1/2 cup Kelchner's Smoky Maple Chipotle Sauce
  • Fresh thyme, for garnish

Directions

1. Cook diced bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until fat renders and bacon begins to crisp.

2. Remove bacon from the pan and set aside. 

3. Drain all but one tablespoon of the bacon fat. 

4. Reduce heat to medium low and add the thinly sliced sweet onions.

5. Stir occasionally until the onions are a deep golden brown. 

6. Add the bacon back to the pan along with the Smoky Maple Chipotle sauce and red pepper flakes.

7.Cook over medium high heat until the mixture takes on a jam like consistency.

8. Salt and pepper to taste and set aside. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

9. Melt butter and combine with olive oil, brush baguette rounds with the oil and butter mixture, pan cook the crostini until lightly toasted, 5-6 minutes.

10. Remove the crostini from the oven and to 1/3 of them spoon on about a tablespoon of the bacon onion jam.

11. Top 1/3 of the crostini with sliced brie, and to the other 1/3 add a small stack of shaved prime rib. Return the crostini to the 425 degree oven and warm for another minute or two. 12. Transfer to a serving platter and finish assembly as follows.

Assembly and Serving

1. Finish the bacon and onion jam crostini with a sprinkling of fresh thyme. 

2. Finish each of the Brie crostini with 2 teaspoons of Honey Ginger Sauce, chopped pecans, and rosemary leaves. 

3. Finish the prime rib crostini with a few baby arugula leaves, dollop with about a half teaspoon of Creamy Horseradish Sauce and sprinkle with fried shallots.

Serve & enjoy!


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