Greetings from the Baconian Castle kitchen – ready for a great recipe?
I, your King, will favor you with yet another amazingly delicious “ball of yummy” – you’ll see why I’m calling it that when you see what we’re making today. Kind of fun – and absolutely delicious. A great football season snack, or honestly a great and FUN dinner item or “company’s coming” snack. Oh baby are these good!
BBQ Bacon-Wrapped Onion Bombs
MEATBALLS
- 2 lbs. lean ground beef
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup BBQ sauce
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. onion powder
- 1/2 tsp. thyme
- 1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/2 ” cube of cheddar cheese per meatball
ONION BOMBS
- 5-6 large yellow onions
- 1 lb. bacon
- Additional BBQ sauce
INSTRUCTIONS
- Mix the the meatball ingredients together, omitting the cheese, in a large bowl with your hands until well combined. Preheat the oven to 425F. Line a sided cookie sheet with foil and set aside.
- Slice the top and bottom off of an onion and peel off the skin. Cut the onion in half and now peel back the layers. Use the two sides of the onion and see how large you need to make your meatball. Stuff the meatball with the 1/2″ cheese cube and roll into a ball. Insert your meatball in the onion halves and make sure it fits nicely, not too small or too large.
- Wrap each of the onion bombs with 2-3 slices of bacon depending on the size of the bomb and secure with toothpicks. Bake on the prepared cookie sheet for 40 min. or until a thermometer reads 165F. Brush liberally with BBQ sauce and bake another 5-10 min.
Not such a toughie to make is it! Not only that, they are beyond delicious. If you like meatballs with BBQ sauce or anything even remotely LIKE that, you’ll love these. Don’t get too hung up in the “onion assembly” part of putting these together – as long as the meatball has onion “around” it – even if the sides don’t match, SO WHAT – you’re gonna wrap it up in bacon anyway. The onion is a great wrap for the meatball……….and the bacon holds it all together then slather it up in BBQ sauce (save some for a bowl on the side for dipping) and you’re in HEAVEN in no time.
Football snack right? That’s what we think anyway………….but you probably could eat these for breakfast and love them too.
That sounds very tasty! I do love bacon and am getting withdrawal symptoms so am thinking that if I use English back bacon instead of streaky it won’t have as much fat so should be all right for me. That’s my thinking anyway.
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Where is everybody today??? I only had 8 entries in my reader this morning and none since yours.
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HMM…that’s weird….maybe everybody is sleeping in? We do our blog the night before so sleeping in isn’t an issue (hahahahaha).
Hugs, Teddy and Mom too
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I like your thinking and actually you’re right – less fat on it (which actually is the best part…haha), means more MEAT and it will be just as tasty too and not “harmful to your health” !!
Hugs, Teddy
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Teddy, you are Chef Extraordinaire!
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Thank you – Saturdays are my days to shine!
Hugs, Teddy
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I’ve just come back from a long walk and the smell of bacon was very welcome!
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Nothing smells as good as bacon……….really……….right?
Hugs, Teddy
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Those look great! I have a lot of freshly harvested onions from the garden so I will have to try this. Thanks for the recipe. XO
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Oh how wonderful they would be with your very own onions as the “wrap” !!
Hugs, Teddy
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OhMyGosh, bacon, burger and cheese in a meatball! My favorite foods! Teddy I think these will be a hit!
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I know – Mom said when I told her about this recipe “WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE????”……………..!!!
Hugs, Teddy
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Mom likes this idea – except for the onions, which is an important part of it, since it’s in the title! Oh well. She likely will only THINK about making them and never actually do it anyway…. #myluck
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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I betcha you can do this recipe WITHOUT the onions PERIOD. Make the meatballs and insert the cheese then go ahead and wrap in bacon PERIOD. The onions just add a little taste – they don’t hold the meatballs together any more than the bacon does!! YAY!
Love, Teddy
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Sounds yummy. 75 today humid and some rain today and tonight. Have a great day.
Sue B
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That sounds like quite the yummy bomb Teddy!
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Oh Brian these are truly heavenly…………honest!
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Those bombs sound very yummy ! Purrs
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They do sound delicious don’t they? Know why? Because they ARE (we tried ’em!)
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“Bacon mmm mmm mmm bacon…just one more week till bacon….”
LadyMew just found out shee CAN eat bacon that iss all reddy to eat; you know from THE box!! Mee so-o happy! Then mee can has bacon too.
THE recipe soundss dee-vine Teddy; you got us droolin here…
***purrsss*** BellaDharma
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Yes that already cooked bacon is pretty darn good too!! YAY!
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YAY iss rite Teddy 😉
Mee iss droollin all reddy!
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Yumsville!
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EXACTLY! Heavenly!
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Onion bombs and bacon OH MY!!
PS I’m having big email issues been on the phone with AT&T which is run by Yahoo. Att&t is contacting Yahoo…Just a heads up
Hugs Cecilia
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UHOH on email issues – hopefully you can get AT&T and YAHOO to fix whatever is UP!
Hugs, Teddy
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That recipe sounds like a “belly of yummy” too.
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This recipe sounds like da Bomb! 🙂
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Literally! 🙂
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This sounds like the kind of messy eating moms groan over and dads and kids drool over!
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EXACTLY!!!! 🙂
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Bet that path to Fountain of Bacon is full and overflowing.
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I suspect it’s WAY more crowded there than the other spot!
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Teddy, Mom thinks these sounds scrumptious but knows they would spell heartburn for her with the onion and bar-b-que sauce. She’d sure try one; though! XOCK, angel Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy and Sawyer
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Agreed here with my Mom and the heartburn/BBQ but she managed to sample THREE small ones without any after effects – and know what? THEY WERE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!
Hugs, Teddy
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