Smoked Bacon-Wrapped Onion Rings

Learn how to take your onion rings to the next level. These smoked bacon-wrapped onion rings are insanely delicious. Smoked on your pellet grill using Cookinpellets.com 100% Hickory Pellets. The smoky flavor of the pellets pairs wonderfully with the bacon, BBQ, and onions. This is the perfect appetizer for game day! These rings will also become a family favorite side dish.

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Smoked Bacon-Wrapped Onion Rings

Course

Appetizers, Side Dish

Cuisine

Bacon

Servings

Ingredients

• Cookinpellets 100% Hickory Pellets
• Onions of Your Choice We recommend sweet onions or yellow onions. Bigger is better
• Bacon, Sliced We recommend regular or thin cut for even cooking
• BBQ Rub Your favorite
• BBQ Sauce Your favorite

Course Appetizers, Side Dish Cuisine Bacon Servings Ingredients Cookinpellets 100% Hickory Pellets Onions of Your Choice We recommend sweet onions or yellow onions. Bigger is better Bacon, Sliced We recommend regular or thin cut for even cooking BBQ Rub Your favorite BBQ Sauce Your favorite

Instructions

Prep

1. Cut your onions into circles and remove the skin.

   
2. After the skin is removed, separate the layers leaving two rings to form one onion ring. This is vital so you don't have a soggy onion.
3. Brush your onion rings with BBQ sauce.
4. Wrap the bacon around the onion rings.
5. Transfer the bacon-wrapped onion rings to a cooling rack and season with BBQ rub.

Cook

1. Load your hopper up with Cookinpellets.com Hickory Pellets.
2. Set your smoker to 275º and put the bacon-wrapped onion rings on.
3. Let the bacon-wrapped onion rings smoke for 1 hour and check to see how the bacon is cooking. (Ours took 1 hour and 15 minutes until the bacon was right.) Once the bacon is cooked the onion rings are ready for sauce.

   
4. Sauce the bacon-wrapped onion rings and let the sauce set for 10 minutes.
5. After the sauce has set, let cool for 15 minutes, eat, and enjoy!

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