Set the cream cheese out at room temperature for 15-30 minutes. Preheat your grill/pit temperature between 350-400 degrees.
Mix cream cheese with a tablespoon of Sweet Heat Rub and minced onion.
Slice sausage into 1/2-inch medallions.
Cut bacon strips in half, then wrap one slice of bacon around each sausage. Using a toothpick goes through the bacon where it overlaps, through the sausage, and to the other side. There should be about a half-inch to an inch gap above the sausage. It should resemble a shot glass.
Fill each “shot” with the cream cheese mixture. Then shake a layer of Sweet Heat on top of all of the pig shots. Place the “shots” on a cooking sheet pan.
Cook
Place the pan of pig shots on the grill and cook until the bacon is crispy and golden brown, about 45 to 60 minutes (depending on grill temp).
Remove the pan of pig shots from the grill and cool for 10 minutes. Drizzle Lane's Kinda Sweet BBQ Sauce over the tops of the pig shots as they are cooling.
These Pig Shots are the bacon lovers’ dream. An explosion of flavor and goodness happens in your mouth when you bite into one. The smoke and cream cheese make a perfect marriage to help cool the heat from the spicy sausage that is used as the base of this construction that brings happiness to flavor town. They are delicious and we would suggest that you try them at your next tailgate.
Set your grill/pit temperature between 350-400 degrees F.
Set the cream cheese out at room temperature for 15-30 minutes prior to starting your grill. Mix cream cheese with a tablspoon of Sweet Heat Rub and minced onion.
Slice sausage into 1/2-inch medallions.
Cut bacon strips in half, then wrap one slice of bacon around each sausage. Using a toothpick go through the bacon where it overlaps, through the sausage, and to the other side. There should be about a half inch to an inch gap above the sausage. It should resemble a shot glass.
Fill each “shot” with the cream cheese mixture. Then shake a layer of Sweet Heat on top of all of the pig shots. Place the “shots” on a cooking sheet pan.
Place the pan of pig shots on the grill and cook until the bacon is crispy and golden brown, about 45 to 60 minutes (depending on grill temp).
Remove the pan of pig shots from the grill and cool for 10 minutes.
Optional - You can brush or drizzle Lane's Kinda Sweet BBQ Sauce over the tops of the pig shots as they are cooling.
Recipe Note
Make sure you use thick-cut bacon.
Also, try to cut your sausage in a circle the best you can. Using link sausage can make you cut on an angle, making wrapping it in bacon more difficult.
You can use a ziplock bag as a piping bag to fill the shots with the cream cheese mixture. Be sure not to overfill. When the shots are cooking the cream cheese will expand. You want all the creamy goodness to stay inside the bacon.
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