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BBQ Bacon Wrapped Onion Bombs

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BBQ Bacon Wrapped Onion Bombs

Have you seen these floating around the internet? Ken attached onto them and was dying to make them. Well, I see why? These BBQ Bacon Wrapped Onion Bombs look fabulous and trust me are even better to eat!!

What is not to love, a big huge meatball stuffed with cheese encased in onion and then wrapped in bacon and slathered with BBQ sauce. I think that is any man’s dream meal, hey wait, mine too!! They are perfect for game day!!

The idea is in an area between cray cray and genius. You know that teetering, exciting threshold that gives you all the wonderfully crazy yet divine dishes!!

Well this is one of them!! These are easy to make, really they are!! Come let me tell you how!!

BBQ Bacon Wrapped Onion Bombs

Although these are said to be BBQ they are made in the oven. They are brushed though with lots of BBQ sauce.

This is a perfect fall and winter meal when you are still craving the flavors of the BBQ but don’t want to venture outside in the nasty weather.

The outside gets lovely and crispy while the inside meatballs stays juicy from the onion, bacon and BBQ sauce.

BBQ Bacon Wrapped Onion Bombs

I am sorry I didn’t cut one of these open for you but I was rushing to get one in “my belly”!!

Man, are these delectable. Ken made a tray of them so we popped some into the freezer and they froze like a dream.

A tip for making these is don’t do your meatballs all ahead of time but custom make them to the size of your onion.

You want to use the larger layers of the onion and make meatballs accordingly, as the onion sizes get smaller so will your meatball.

Then use another large onion to keep making more. The inner part of the onion can be used for another recipe, just pop it into the fridge wrapped.

How to See if These are Done?

How to see if these are done is easy with this wonderful instant read thermometer from Thermoworks. You don’t want to be cutting one of these open to see if they are done, that ruins them.

With this thermometer you will have a temperature in seconds. 

To go with this all you need is a great fresh salad like this one! 

 

BBQ Bacon Wrapped Onion Bombs Recipe

Yield: 8-10 servings

BBQ Bacon Wrapped Onion Bombs

BBQ Bacon Wrapped Onion Bombs
These BBQ Bacon Wrapped Onion Bombs are like large meatball stuffed onions, and are fabulous!! A must try recipe!!
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

10

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 580 Total Fat: 31g Saturated Fat: 11g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 17g Cholesterol: 154mg Sodium: 1435mg Carbohydrates: 25g Fiber: 2g Sugar: 11g Protein: 47g
© Tara Noland
Cuisine: American / Category: Entree
BBQ Bacon Wrapped Onion Bombs are an extravaganza of flavors. A treat that a real meat lover is going to go crazy for!! Great Father's Day meal too!! #onionbombs #bacon #bbq #baconwrapped #fathersday

Recipe adapted from Stuffed Onion Bombs by My Fridge Food.

 

 

Comments

  1. Oh my gosh! I’m totally making these for my husband for his birthday next week. He’s going to think I’m a genius!! HA! Thanks for a great recipe!

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  2. As a guy who long gave up on controlling his health, this would make a great breakfast, lunch and dinner idea. I’m not kidding. I would literally eat these at any time, all the time.

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    • That’s a great response!!! Funny yet truthful! My husband and I went vegan for one month; I lost 10 lbs. (I’m 5’7”, 120lbs) and we felt like zombies. No energy, didn’t feel healthy… so we quit that lifestyle and went all out at McDonalds that day! It was wonderful. It’s like the Big Mac was whispering to me, “Welcome Home Amy” :))

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      • I can do vegetarian/vegan a couple of times a week but need my meat fix, could never take it away completely!

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  5. Those look so amazing! I have to give them a try soon. I could really go for some of these right about now too! Yum!

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  9. Holy cow these could be life changing. I can’t imagine not needing to make like 4 billion of them for holiday appetizers. Definitely trying these!

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  15. I just made this and I want everyone to know that this is the greatest!!!! Omg they are full of favor and look cool also. 🥓🍺go together

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    • Awesome Dawn, so glad you liked them. It is a pretty cool recipe for sure!! Thank you for taking the time to tell me!!

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  16. Made them tonight. I think I would prefer to bake them on a broiling pan next time so they don’t have to sit in the grease. They were oh so delicious!

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  18. I initially thought these were an appetizer, however, if a pound of bacon usually has about 16 slices, and . . . you wrap each bomb with 2-3 slices, that means you can only get 6-8 bombs at the most, and each of the bombs will have 1/4 to 1/3 lb. meat (along with all the rest of the ingredients). This is sounding more like a main course than an appetizer.

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  19. This recipe looks amazing! My mom is making these for a dinner party tomorrow night…I’m so sad I wasn’t invited! But I’ll make them on my own 🙂 THANK you for not only giving me a new recipe for my husband and I, but for giving us a recipe that includes bacon:)))

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  20. Might be being dense. Can someone help me – when you cut the onion in half. Do you just keep the outside peel? I’m not sure how the meat goes into the onion.

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    • Sorry, I was out of the country for a few days. Don’t cut the onion completely in half, you want the section of the onion but not the outside peel. Watch the video and that should clear things up for you.

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  21. I want to try and make these for the Daytona 500 tomarrow. I am a bit set back about the size of them. Onions are usually pretty big in size and these look smaller. What size onion should I use? .

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    • Just use the smaller yellow onions and if the first one is too big then use the smaller ones as you go deeper into the onion.

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