Chilli Jam, Cream Cheese & Pancetta Buns

I had every intention of blogging while we were holidaying in Perisher but a full day of boarding usually meant there was only enough energy left each night to slither out of the spa and put myself and the kids to bed. Heck, I could hardly lift a crochet needle; another aprés-ski endeavour I failed to achieve in spite of packing enough yarn to crochet a king size bed throw. Poor me? Of course not! I had an amazing holiday with my family which I’ll blog about separately later.

Anyway, on with this post! Before our holiday I made a batch of savoury buns based on my favourite recipe from a Japanese cooking magazine (see Caramellised Shallots, Provolone & Mayo Buns). I recently received a bottle of Beerenberg Farm’s Chilli Jam which was begging to be opened. It’s a lovely chilli jam with a good amount of heat and not overly sweet like your average Thai style sweet chilli sauce.

I made up my bun dough and prepared each little bun. In each, I spooned some cream cheese and a teaspoon of chilli jam in the centre. I did consider mixing the chilli jam into the cream cheese (could be a rather nice dip if you do this) but I rather like the contrast of flavours you get when kept separate. I fried off some pieces of pancetta until crisp and drained off the excess oil on paper towels. Each bun got a good scattering of the crispy pancetta before being baked.

The result: A squishy, soft bun with a creamy centre punctuated by swirls of hot and sweet, finished with the salty, fatty porkiness of pancetta. Bliss!

4 Comments for this entry

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  Nic@diningwithastud

  July 26th, 2012 on 2:55 pm

  What a great way to use your chilli jam! These would be pretty awesome for breakfast on the run too :)

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  Monica

  July 27th, 2012 on 10:47 am

  Thanks! :) Wish I had some this morning…

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  Leigh

  July 31st, 2012 on 1:25 pm

  OMG!!!! those chilli jam, cream cheese and pancetta buns sounds so yummmm they are making my mouth water

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  Monica

  July 31st, 2012 on 1:53 pm

  Thank you :) It’s hard to beat anything that contains cream cheese but if you add some sweet chili jam and pork, whoa :)

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