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- [Narrator] Welcome to the BBQPitBoys.com
Today we're cooking up some bacon stuffing on the grill,
and its real easy to do.
Alright, now
there's bacon, and then there's bacon.
Am I right?
You'll want to choose a good quality bacon for this recipe.
After all, it is bacon stuffing and its all about bacon.
Alright, here u;ve got a one pound
and a half package of thick cut bacon.
You can see the quality of this bacon right here.
(sucks in breathe)
Oh mean yeah.
Always choose good quality bacon.
Alright nice and thick.
Alright now for this recipe,
you're gonna need a few ingredients,
and you want to get yourself some green onion.
Gonna need some celery, here you got some garlic.
Get yourself a lemon and some parsley.
And here are these baked crackers,
something about these crackers.
You're gonna need a couple packages.
Here I've got unsalted butter, about a stick,
some salt, we're gonna need a little bit of pepper.
Here I've got some chicken broth,
you're gonna be able to use water.
What we're gonna do first here
is we're gonna cook this bacon on the grill.
Now we're gonna do it opposite to hot coals, indirect.
I've got some aluminum foil underneath
to catch the bacon grease, just make it a little bit
easier cleaning up later.
Now we're gonna separate some of this
thick cut right there and cook it.
It's only gonna take about, maybe an hour.
Alright, about an hour's gone by
and in the meantime here,
we've been steaming up some clams
'cause we're gonna make some clams and stuff it
with some bacon stuffing.
And here's what they call about a Cherry Stone Clam.
It's a fairly large clam, its good for chowders
and its good for dicing up into stuffing.
Now, as I said the bacon is done.
Oh looks good.
Alright, here I'm gonna heat up that one stick
of unsalted butter here 'cause we're gonna
add it to the stuffing.
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Alright now what we want to do here,
is were gonna chop up this bacon into fairly small pieces
and we're gonna do about a pound of it.
That's what we're gonna need for this recipe.
You know about that.
Just cut it up like that into small pieces.
(whistles softy through teeth) Man.
Alright the bacon has been chopped.
It tastes good.
Now we're gonna add it to our mixing bowl here.
Now if you've never had bacon stuffing before
you definitely gotta check this out.
This is real good eating
and now you can use it for fish, clams, for shrimp.
Pretty much anything you like stuffing with
or even in your turkey.
Now here I've got those clams.
We're just gonna take the meat out here
because we're gonna chop up these clams.
Woo man, it smells good.
Now, some of you might ask whether or not
you could use a chopped clam from a can.
You could go ahead and do that but
if you have access to some fresh clams
you wanna do it this way, a lot more rich flavor.
Tastes a lot better.
But if all you got is canned clams around
go ahead and use it.
The meat is out of the clam shells.
All you wanna do here is chop it up
in fairly small pieces just like that.
It smells good.
Alright, the clams have been chopped.
And we're gonna, in this recipe, throw it in
with the pound of chopped bacon.
Now you don't have to do that, you can keep these separate.
But we decided we're gonna make some
bacon clam stuffing here.
Into the bowl we're gonna add about
a tablespoon of minced garlic.
Here I've got about a quarter cup of chopped celery.
A quarter cup of that green onion right there.
And a couple tablespoons of fine chopped parsley,
just to make it look real pretty.
And now we're gonna add
a couple of tubes of these baked crackers.
And you know about these baked crackers, oh man
they just about make the best stuffing
you can make man right here.
Just break em up, and add em to the bowl.
You wanna leave some large chunks of these crackers in there
Just like that, and then you mix it up.
Oh yeah.
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Now I add just a pinch of salt.
A few turn of fresh ground black peppercorn.
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Make sure you mix it up real good.
And now we wanna add some moisture to this mix,
we wanna bind it together.
So we'll start off with a little bit of this chicken broth.
You can use water
But more importantly you wanna take this one stick
of unsalted melted butter in there.
(sucks in air)
And this'll bind it up.
Then last but not least-
lemon.
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About the juice of one lemon.
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Alright, now.
Like I said, you can use this stuffing
for pretty much anything,
but here I happen to have some shrimp.
And these here are four to seven count,
about four to seven a pound,
and you can see how big these are.
They're like lobster tails.
If you can get ahold of these, these are real good.
Or you can use any size shrimp you want.
And all you have to do here is butterfly 'em up.
Just take your knife and split 'em open a little bit more.
Now these came to us already cleaned and de-veined.
The tail's still on, the tail shell is still on,
that keeps it together, and we just butterfly it like that.
Simple enough right?
I'm gonna put it on a baking sheet here.
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Oh yeah.
Now I could shorten up this video up a bit,
but I kinda like doing this, so just hang in there.
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These shrimp have been butterflied.
Now we're gonna take some of those clamshells,
'cause we're gonna make some stuffed clams here too.
We got plenty of stuffing so we'll throw a half a dozen
of clam shells on there.
Like I said, you can use this recipe for sole, some fish.
Yeah stuff a turkey with it.
Now this is the way you want your stuffing to look.
You can see how I can roll it
in a ball like that, keeps it together.
We have just the amount of butter
and moisture in there to make it work.
So that's the way you want to get it.
And you just take a small ball,
place it right on that shrimp.
Oh yeah. (laughs)
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I think you know where we're going with this right?
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And then we'll stuff some of those clamshells.
I guarantee, you won't have any better stuffed shrimp
or stuffed clams anywhere.
You definitely gotta check out this recipe man.
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Alright, these clams and shrimp have been stuffed.
(breathes through teeth) Yeah.
Nothing left to do now but throw it on the grill.
Just take a look at that.
Now we're gonna be running our grill
about 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
And we're gonna again,
place these opposite the hot coals indirect.
We're gonna be baking em, oh yeah.
It's gonna take about 25 minutes.
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Through the miracle of time, these stuffed shrimp,
clams, are done.
You can see how the shrimp is, it's nice and white now.
You don't wanna overcook em.
Wanna keep that shrimp real tender.
These are ready, take em off the grill.
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As always, we do apologize,
but this is pit master privilege.
We're gonna have to eat some of this right in front of you.
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Oh nice.
Oh, oh.
Yeah
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- [Man] Never enough bacon.
Throw a little more hot sauce on there. (laughs)
Oh yeah.
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So the next time your looking for a recipe for your BBQ
do check out, BBQPitBoys.com
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