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Today we're cooking up some
bacon meatball stuffed onions on the grill
and they're real easy to do.
Alright you're gonna need some bacon
and you're gonna need some ground beef
and here of course we've got some ground chuck.
You wanna use some good beef for this recipe.
Here we've got some sweet onions.
These are vidalia onions.
You choose a nice sweet onion like a walla walla,
a texas sweet, or a spanish onion.
Yeah you wanna use a good sweet onion for this recipe.
Alright let's put this together
and we'll show you how to do it.
Now first thing you wanna do
we're gonna core these onions.
You wanna remove the center portion of these onions
because we're gonna be stuffin' em with meatballs
and it's good.
Now it's pretty simple to core
and this is the way you do it right here.
You slice off the ends of the onion
and then you take the knife and just slice the outer layer,
the outer ring there and you remove the onions skin.
Then you take your knife cause we gotta loosen this up
you take your knife here and just loosen up the inside
this will make it real easy to core.
Now you just take an ordinary kitchen spoon
and you start separating the rings.
Just like that.
You do it this way rather than a straight knife
because otherwise you just might cut it
and split this onion in two, you don't wanna do that.
Kind of simple.
Now of course you wanna use a good size onion to do this.
Man see how easy it is?
Scrape along with your spoon.
Simple enough right?
Alright let me show you one more time.
Cut the ends.
Slice the outer ring, remove the onions skin.
Oh yeah.
You loosen up the core like that.
Use your spoon, make it larger.
Just twist, turn.
It may take you a few times to get this right
but just keep at it alright?
Now if you've never stuffed onions with meatballs before
you definitely gotta check this out.
In fact you're gonna wanna make a lot of these
because there ain't gonna be any leftovers.
Alright.
And through the miracle
of time we've cored a bunch of these.
Of course you wanna save your leftover onion.
Now next thing we're gonna do here is make the meatballs.
Now you definitely wanna make the meatballs
the way you like those meatballs alright?
But if you haven't made em in awhile this is a way you do it
I've got a little of those leftover onions there.
I'm gonna throw it in about two pounds of this ground chuck.
Here I've got some seasoning.
Use what seasoning you want.
This here's a little SPG with some cayenne pepper
and a few spices.
Just make your meatballs the way you like em alright?
Give it a good mix in here.
Oh yeah.
And like I said you wanna use a good quality ground beef.
This here is about 80% lean to fat
and it's ground chuck.
It's got a lot of flavor
for these meatballs we're making here.
Now make the meatball, you know all about that right?
Now here's the magic.
Stuff it right in that onion right there.
Oh yeah.
Look at that.
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Now what we're gonna be doing here
is we're gonna be slow cooking em on the grill.
What'll happen is this flavor of the ground beef
is gonna get in this onion as it's cooking
and the onions gonna end up tasting like beef steak.
Whoa man.
Let's make a couple more alright?
Just stuff that ground chuck in there.
Now we've stuffed the onions with these meatballs
and now what we're gonna do is wrap em
with some regular cut bacon.
Use your favorite bacon.
Alright.
Now I found that it's best to use regular cut
rather than thick cut.
Cause the bacon's gonna cook fairly quickly.
You just wrap em now you might use two slices,
three slices, even four slices.
Depends how big those onion's are right?
Now not only does that bacon add a layer of flavor to this
but it also keeps the onion from burning
or getting over cooked.
You don't need those sissy toothpicks
to keep this together either.
As you know when you low and slow bacon
it'll slowly constrict whatever
you've got it wrapped around.
It'll get tighter.
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Now I don't really need to show you anymore of this right?
You already get the picture
but I kinda like doing this.
So just use that fast forward button
if it's getting boring for you.
Alright give that bacon a good wrap.
Here's a closer shot, oh yeah.
Alright let's put these
bacon meatball stuffed onions on the grill.
Now we've got the grill setup for indirect heating.
If you've been watching us over the years
you know what that's all about.
We've got the hot charcoal on one side.
And we're gonna place these opposite alright?
Cause we're gonna be cooking these
at about 250 to 275 degrees Fahrenheit
and it's gonna take a couple hours.
Oh yeah it's good.
Put the cover on and just go kick back and relax.
Alright we fast forward here.
Now we're into this about one and three quarter hours.
Here I've got some bbq sauce
and we're gonna hit a few
of these bacon meatball stuffed onions with some sauce.
You can do em the way you want.
Check back in about another 10 minutes or so.
To many fly's and bee's around.
Gotta watch it when you cook.
Alright these are almost ready to pull off the grill.
We're gonna put some cheese on top first.
Heck what the hell is a meatball without some cheese?
Got some mozzarella there.
Use your favorite cheese.
Cheddar or whatever, alright?
Here I've got a couple pickled jalapeno's.
Get creative.
Goes real good with bacon meatball stuffed onions.
Man you smell that?
It smells good.
I say it's time to eat.
Look at that.
Pull em off the grill.
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Oh baby.
I say it's time to eat.
Cut one of these open for ya.
Take a look at that.
Lord have mercy.
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