Summary
| Yield | |
|---|---|
| Prep Time | 20 minutes |
| Recipe Category | Appetizers |
Description
Good for the football game or the dinner party.
Ingredients
- 1 pk bacon
- 2 pk dried dates or figs
- barbecue sauce
Instructions
Half-cook the bacon on a skillet over medium heat. Remove bacon to a wire rack or pile of paper towels and let drain. Preheat oven to 400. Cut each bacon strip in half, wrap around a dried date/fig, and secure with a toothpick. Place on a lined cookie sheet. When all the fruit is wrapped and on the cookie sheet, drizzle approx 1 tsp. barbecue sauce over each one. Bake until barbecue sauce is a dark mahogany, but before it turns black. Serve when convenient (it's great warm, but good cold, too).
Notes
This was an invention of mine at a Spanish Tapa party we had in September 07. It was a hit with everyone, from the most sophisticated to the kids.
mmmm!
YOU invented these? Way to go!
I had these at a party a few years back and they are DELICIOUS! I couldn't stop eating em'!
Thanks for sharing. Now I know how to make them too!
Brian
popular here in the SE
when i cater this is often served as a appetizer although not with bbq sauce but rather with some sort of vinagrette
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High Brow
Use prosciuto or just tell everyone it is instead of bacon.
The fig and prosciuto tapa/app has been around forever, but the creative substitution of bacon and adding BBQ sauce is a nice invention.
"Invention" was probably the wrong word
Okay, so as a few of you have noted, this is not so much an "invention" as and improvisation. Call this the Kansas City version.
Invention is Fair
No, I think it is fine to call it your invention. Like you said, it's a KC-style original.