Recipes For Grilling

Summer is hear and it is time to get out the Recipes For Grilling again. Here is the first of our series of Recipes For Grilling, enjoy!

Marvelous Meat Munchers

What You Need:

• 1 lb chicken breasts, boneless, skinless and cubed
• 1 lb beef sirloin, boneless and cubed
• 1/2 C canola oil
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/3 C pineapple juice
• 2 tsp soy sauce
• 1 tsp red pepper flakes
• 4 jalapeno peppers
• 8 strips of bacon - cut in half
• 16 toothpicks

How to Make It:

1. Whisk together the canola oil and minced garlic in a large mixing bowl.
2. Add the pineapple juice and soy sauce and continue whisking until well blended.
3. Stir in the red pepper flakes.
4. Place the mixture into a large zip lock bag.
5. Trim any fat away from the pieces of meat.
6. Place the meat into the zip lock bag, close tightly and shake to insure the meat is completely covered by the marinade.
7. Allow the meat to sit in the marinade at least one hour.
8. Meat can marinate over night if you prefer.
9. Remove the meat from the bag and discard the marinade.
10. Cut the peppers lengthwise and remove the seeds, membrane and stems.
11. Cut the peppers into strips.
12. Place one strip of pepper on each piece of bacon.
13. Place one cube of meat on top of each pepper strip.
14. Add another pepper strip on top.
15. Wrap the bacon completely around each piece and secure with a toothpick.
16. Heat grill to medium hot or if using coals place coals in the center of the grill and when the coals burn down to a slight gray spread in a single layer.
17. Cook 20 minutes, turning every 5 minutes to insure they are cooked on all sides.
18. When done the bacon should be crisp and the juices from the chicken should run clear.

Simple Oysters in the Shell

What You Need:

• 24 oysters in the shell
• 24 fresh lemon slices
• Seafood cocktail sauce

How to Make It:

1. Clean each oyster shell top and bottom well.
2. The grill needs to be very hot to cook these.
3. Place the oysters shell and all on the grill.
4. Close the lid.
5. Check every 3 minutes or so and when the shells begin to open remove them from the grill.
6. Carefully open the shell being sure to retain the juice and the oyster in the bottom shell.
7. Squeeze the fresh lemon juice over the top each oyster.
8. Serve with the cocktail sauce.

Be carefully not to over cook these oysters. When the shell starts to open you want to remove them immediately. If cooked to long they will become rubbery.

This is one of my personal well loved Recipes For Grilling and we normally serve it as a starter while the rest of the food cook.

Grilled Meatloaves

What You Need:

• 2 lbs lean ground beef
• 2 onions, minced
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 TBSP parsley, chopped
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• 2 flat metal skewers

How to Make It:

1. Place the ground beef in a food processor.
2. Add the onion, garlic and parsley.
3. Process until mixture becomes smooth.
4. Remove and place in a large mixing bowl.
5. Add the coriander, cumin, salt and pepper to the mixture.
6. With your hands mix all the ingredients together well.
7. Form the mixture into two meatloaves.
8. Run the skewers through the center of each loaf.
9. Heat the grill to medium high.
10. Place the loaves on the grill and cover.
11. Cook 20 minutes turning over half way through the cooking time.

If you like your ground beef a little rarer you can cook these for about 15 minutes. For more well done meat cook just a little longer.

Backyard Sausage Rolls

What You Need:

• 2 C white bread crumbs
• 1 (8 oz) package Cheddar cheese, shredded
• 1 onion - chopped
• 1 TBSP parsley
• 1 tsp mustard powder
• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 TBSP water
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• Olive oil for basting

How to Make It:

1. Place the bread crumbs and cheese in a food processor.
2. Add the onion and parsley and process until a dough forms.
3. Place the mustard, Worcestershire sauce and water in the processor.
4. Process just long enough to mix spices into the dough.
5. Add the salt and pepper and process 10 seconds longer.
6. Remove the dough and split into eight pieces.
7. Form each piece into a roll.
8. Heat grill to medium high.
9. Brush each roll with the olive oil on all sides.
10. Grill 10 minutes, turning each one over several times for browning on all sides.

These little rolls make great appetizers. They can be served with a honey mustard dipping sauce.

Enjoy the freedom of summer and use these Recipes For Grilling to entertain with.