Thread: Not crappie, but some have requested this "smoked phattie" recipe

I was gettin things around for the Michigan Crappie Dot Com (MICDC) fall SlabFest and one of the members made a request. I have made some of these and took them down to the AR and MS camps this past spring, and some of you wanted the recipe. Sorry I had forgotten til now.



You'll need:

1 pound breakfast sausage
1 pound bacon (I like thick sliced peppered)
8 oz. cheddar cheese (shredded)
1 med. jalepeno pepper (seeded and diced)
1/2 cup diced onion
spices to your taste

Put the sausage in a gallon ziplok bag and roll out til it fills the bag and you have a large square sheet of sausage. cut down both sides of the bag and unzip it. Fold one side back to expose the sausage sheet.

Spread the cheese, diced onions, and diced pepper evenly over the sausage. spices to your liking. Roll the sausage up, pulling the ziplok off as you go. You should now have a sausage "roll". Set aside.

On a sheet of waxed paper, you need to "weave" the bacon. I won't try to explain this process, but it isn't very hard once you start. Use the whole pound of bacon. When you get done weaving the bacon you should have a nice woven blanket approx. 12"x12" or so. Lay the sausage roll on one end of the weave and roll up until you have a sweet lookin' bacon roll.

I suppose you can direct grill, but I prefer to do mine on a smoker. Takes mine about 4-5 hours. DON'T OVERCOOK THEM!

They are delicious and oh so good for you...not...but then sometimes ya just can't have both.

try it stuffed with a deer back strap