L'il Gayle's Recipe Corner...
Looking for great appetizers to bring to a party, or serve before your meal? These are so good, you won't eat just one!
Barbecued Chicken Wontons These tasty little wonton appetizers make interesting party snacks, or serve them as an appetizer before a special meal. Ingredients: ·1 cup cooked diced chicken ·1 teaspoon Cajun seasoning ·3 green onions with about 3 to 4 inches of green, coarsely chopped ·1/4 teaspoon salt ·Dash black pepper ·3 tablespoons purchased or homemade barbecue sauce ·24 to 30 wonton wrappers ·Oil for deep frying ·Gayle's BBQ Sauce for dipping
Preparation: In a food processor, a food chopper, or by hand, finely mince the chicken and onions with seasonings. Add 3 tablespoons of Gayle's BBQ sauce and process or mix well to combine. Put 1 teaspoon of the chicken mixture in the center of a wonton wrapper. Lightly brush water all around the edge of the wrapper. Fold over and press the edge all around to seal or follow instructions on the wonton wrapper insert for folding. Keep filled wontons covered with a damp dish towel to keep them from drying out, and keep the unused wrappers covered. Heat oil in a deep fryer to 370°. Fry the filled wontons, 3 or 4 at a time, until golden brown. Transfer to paper towel-lined plate and keep warm. Serve with barbecue sauce. Makes about 2 to 2 1/2 dozen appetizers.
BBQ Sausage Bites Ingredients: ·1 cup Gayle's BBQ sauce ·16 ounces reduced fat sausage of your choice
Preparation: Turn slow cooker on HIGH and pour the BBQ sauce into the crock of your slow cooker. If using large link sausage, slice into 1/3-inch thick slices. If using smaller link sausage, cut into 1-inch long segments. Stir the sausage pieces into the BBQ sauce in the slow cooker and heat about 45 minutes or until sausage and sauce are good and hot. Reduce heat to LOW for the party and keep it on low until the sausage bites are all gone. Serve the turkey bites with toothpicks if desired. Makes 8 servings
BBQ Stuffed Hush Puppy Appetizers Ingredients ◦1 Pork Shoulder ◦Prepared hush puppy mix (Follow package instructions to make 40 hush puppies) ◦Oil for frying hush puppies ◦1 cup Gayle's BBQ sauce ◦1/3 cup kosher salt ◦1/3 cup dark brown sugar ◦1 teaspoon cayenne pepper ◦4 tablespoons garlic powder ◦2 pints water ◦2 pints beer (optional, can substitute extra water) ◦10 large cloves of garlic, peeled
Preparation: In a small bowl mix together salt, brown sugar, cayenne pepper and garlic powder. Rub mixture over pork shoulder, wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 24 hours. Remove pork shoulder from the refrigerator an hour before you are ready to cook to allow it to come to room temperature. Heat grill to medium heat. Place the pork shoulder on the grill directly over the fire and cover. Allow to cook for 10 minutes or until the sugar has caramelized and the outside is brown and crunchy. Make sure to watch carefully so the meat does not catch fire. (If it does, just move it away from the direct fire). Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Place browned pork shoulder in a roasting pan. Place the water, beer and garlic cloves in the pan with the pork shoulder. The water should come halfway up the side of the meat. Add more water if needed. Cover with foil or lid and cook for 8 hours. Remove from oven and allow to cool until you are able to pull meat apart. While meat is cooling fry hush puppies according to package directions. Make just slightly bigger than your average hush puppy (a large tablespoon size). Cut a hole out of the top of each hush puppy and fill with the pulled pork. Top with Gayle's BBQ sauce. You can also mix Gayle's BBQ sauce in with the pulled pork prior to stuffing hush puppies. Save your extra pork for sandwiches!
Serves: 40 |
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