Bacon Wrapped... BBQ
My wife and I have been doing this about once a month. Easy, great when family visits and you need to prepare a lot, and is a great way to get the little ones helping out as well. Thais like a good BBQ, and they love bacon, so what started out with just chicken livers and hearts has turned into a using mushrooms, baby corn, small sausages, shrimp, etc. No number of servings is stated, this is a make as much or as little as you like. The ingredients are suggested items but you can certainly use what you like or have on have on hand.
Equipment
- Skewers
- Grill, Charcoal or Gas
Ingredients
- sliced bacon, as needed, smoked would be great
What to Wrap...
- chicken livers
- chicken hearts
- Straw mushrooms, whole
- Shimeji mushrooms, white and brown
- sausage links
- baby corn
- shrimp, peeled, deviened, tail removed
- Brussels sprouts, whole
Instructions
- First thing is fire up your grill is using charcoal, if using gas, you can turn that on after everything is prepped.
- Open up the bag of skewers, bacon, and get out the veggies and or chicken livers, hearts, sausages, etc. Chicken livers cut in half, Straw mushrooms leave whole, and for the Shimeji mushrooms you will need to trim off the root ends.
- On a plate or cutting board, lay down a strip of bacon so one end is facing away from you, place an item on the end closest to you, and simply roll it up in the bacon, run a skewer this. you can place 3-4 items on each skewer. Place the full skewers on a plate. Continue until everything is wrapped. Cover with foil.
- Place the skewers over hot coals on your grill. The cooking time is basically to crisp up the bacon, even for the chicken livers, when the bacon is crispy, the liver will be done as well.
- Place cooked skewers on a plate and and watch them disappear while cooking another batch, let people help themselves to the skewers of their choice and serve potato or pasta salad, and corn on the cob on the side.
Notes
Over all this would be low cost and is a great way to feed a crowd. Get the kids involved, show them once and they will remember, try to keep up with them.