Hawaiian Style Smoked Cheesy Chicken Bacon Bites

Prior To Smoking

A recipe! It's been a while huh? With the addition of Pineapple these are a new improved version of the original Bacon Bites that The Glutenite created way back when. A Hawaiian version.

This is a recipe that requires a smoker but you can alternatively grill or barbecue them, I haven't done that myself as I highly recommend smoking for the amazing flavours but I'm sure they would still be lovely.

(I've gone with that photo as the lead despite it being of the raw bites because the photos of the smoked versions just don't cut it. You'll have to take my word for it because my photos do no justice to this recipe whatsoever but I can assure you that these are incredibly delish and smoked Pineapple is indeed a sexy revelation.)

Post Smoking But Minus The Cheese

Ingredients:

1 Large Chicken Breast

Streaky Bacon Rashers (how many will depend on number of chicken pieces)

Pineapple Slices (dependant on number of bites)

Chilli Powder

150g Gouda

You'll need skewers of some sort, if using wooden soak them in cold water for a bit.

Directions:

• Cut the chicken breast into bite sized pieces of your choice

Simples

• Count the chicken pieces, this will determine how many bacon rashers you'll need. It's half as many so 14 chicken pieces equates to 7 rashers etc
• Cut the bacon rashers in half

Kitchen Scissors Are So Useful

• Cut a quarter of a pineapple into slices, you need one slice for each bite

All The Main Ingredients

• Wrap each piece of chicken with a half rasher of bacon
• Slide one of the bacon covered chicken bites onto the skewer where the bacon overlaps
• Follow with a slice of pineapple
• Repeat until all the bites and pineapple slices are on the skewers

Summery

• Put a pinch of chilli powder on each bite

I Like Mine HOT

• Make a foil tray to house the cheese
• First, take a square of tin foil and lay it flat on your work surface

Bit Like Blue Peter This

• Fold each edge about 1 inch inwards

Reinforcing

• Turn over and fold the doubled edges inward to create a crease on each side

Shiny Shiny

• Push the edges inward and pinch each corner together

Makes More Sense With The Photo I Hope

• Fold each corner to the right and secure by folding the top of the corners over the edges

Surprisingly Sturdy

• Grease the inside of the tray with a little oil
• Cut the cheese to fit and place into the tray
• Put the loaded skewers into the smoker

Room For The Cheese Tray In The Middle, You Can See The Wear

• Put on a high preheated hob ring and smoke for 5 minutes
• Lower to medium high and smoke for a further 5-6 minutes
• Return to a high heat for the remaining 2-3 minutes
• Remove bites and cheese from the smoker

The Smoked Gouda will look like this:

YA-UMMMM

• Slice the cheese down the middle and slide onto the bites

Okay, so here's what the Bites look like, I documented this twice in order to get these photos and both times they turned out cr*p:

Smokey Summery Yums

I really should have taken the bites off the skewers to show them individually but you know me, you know where this is going. I didn't.

I Mean, Look At That Sexy Cheese Though

Printable Version

It's funny how you can basically add Pineapple to anything and it becomes a bit Hawaiian but I love that vibe, it's girlie, y'know, floral. I found Hawaii to be totally floral, like getting a lei just before you exit the airport - I didn't think that happened outside movies - and all those stunningly beautiful tropical plants, even the shirts. My experience all those years ago was of a really lovely feminine place, so chilled. If I'd seen Dog The Bounty Hunter when I was a teenager there is no way I would have visited Oahu, it's f*cking scary now by the looks of it, so sad.

If you try nothing else from this recipe but you have a smoker, seriously, get jiggy with some Pineapple, it's amazing. Smoked Pineapple is something that may sound very, very wrong but actually it's oh so very right. Try it!

I don't have any recipes planned but I'll come up with something to share in the not too distant future.