Potato Canapés with Bacon and Asparagus

Name: Potato Canapés with Bacon and Asparagus
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 12 people
Ingredients: 12 Jersey Royal new potatoes; 4 smoked bacon rashers; 24 asparagus (tips only); Maldon sea salt; 2 spring onions; 6 tbsp Heinz Seriously Good Mayonnaise

Published on July 13, 2016 by Elizabeth 50 Comments
Last Updated on January 28, 2019

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In collaboration with Heinz [Seriously] Good Mayonnaise.

I confess, when I was growing up in Canada mayonnaise was not one of those things that regularly appeared on the menu. In fact, I actively avoided it as it was this strange, unsual condiment and I really had no idea what I was supposed to do with it.

It wasn’t until I immigrated to the UK and was introduced to the concept of dipping one’s hot chunky oven chips into a great dollop of cold, straight out of the fridge, mayonnaise, that I became a firm convert.

Mayonnaise is one of my store cupboard essentials. I use it in tuna sandwiches, for making devilled eggs, for mixing with low fat yogurt to make a soured cream subsitute (I can never get soured cream in my village shop) and, of course, for dunking oven chips into. Nothing else will do, except for perhaps Heinz tomato sauce.

Heinz have recently launched their own [Seriously] Good mayonnaise in supermarkets up and down the country (Tesco, Asda and Sainsburys, to be specific), and let me tell you, it really does live up to its name.

Smooth, deliciously thick and creamy with a rich mayonnaise flavour it’s ideal for all your favourite sandwiches, potato salads and, of course, chip dunking. Containing only high quality ingredients and absolutely no added colours, flavours or artificial thickeners this mayonnaise can transform everyday meals into something [Seriously] amazing.

To celebrate the launch of their mayonnaise Heinz are on a nationwide search for the best tasting recipes. They want to know if you’ve got what it takes to create a delectable dish that will fit on a spoon – a tasty mouthful, if you please.

To find out how to enter visit seriouslygoodspoonfuls.co.uk.

Me, I’ve gone for a new potato canapé with bacon and asparagus. Keeping it simple. When you’ve got mayonnaise this [Seriously] Good you don’t need anything extra. The flavours speak for themselves.

For this recipe new potatoes are boiled until tender in salted water and allowed to cool. I fried up a few rashers of bacon, set them aside to cool, and then fried asparagus tips in the hot b

acon grease in plenty of Maldon sea salt. The cooled potatoes were then halved and the cut sides were fried in the salty bacon grease and then turned upright, squirted with a dollop of delicious creamy mayo and topped with bacon and asparagus. Spring onions were sprinkled over as a garnish.

Delicious, hot or cold!

Have you tried the new Heinz [Seriously] Good mayonnaise? What did you think? What’s your favourite way to serve mayonnaise? Let me know in the comments!